Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. For today''s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery. But, I found that rookies actually operate with higher levels of self-awareness and move faster than their experienced counterparts. When is not knowing more valuable than knowing? .

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Over the course of my career, Ive had the opportunity to lead a number of organizations and each one involved a series of steep learning curves. Even the most successful operations do some things poorly, so managing an enterprise involves constant improvement.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2024

Additionally, the operational costs linked with ACH and EFT are often noticeably lower than those for paper-based payments, unlocking savings for both senders and recipients. Aligning payment methods with business cycles and operational demands can streamline cash flow management and optimize financial planning.

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Banking Learning Curve Efficiency Operations 80

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an interview, Christy Pambianchi, EVP and Chief People Officer at Intel, highlights the importance of continuous learning and innovation in HR, emphasizing Intel’s phased approach to implementing AI tools. Pambianchi advises startup leaders to prioritize human capital management, stressing the importance of assembling agile teams.

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CPO Human Capital Learning Curve Leadership 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Electronic Forms Improve Data Accuracy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. This was created by the same folks that brought you iDecide+.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. This was created by the same folks that brought you iDecide+.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Other consumer-focused companies such as IKEA and Starbucks are following in KFC's footsteps, but the learning curve is both steep and long. And fortunes can reverse quickly if managers don't progress their multicultural understanding as markets continue to evolve.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In the realm of knowledge work, rookies tend to outperform those with experience, especially when it comes to innovation and speed. Needing to close a knowledge gap quickly, hyper-learning kicks in, causing them to seek out guidance, experiment and get rapid feedback. And, they are hungry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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Talent Management Technology Process Management 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. Sales operations must consider changes to market segmentation, territory management, and resource allocation. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. On the other hand, customers may worry that new features pose the risk of new glitches and a steep learning curve. ” Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. This is what I recommend to my students who want to launch a disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry: Don’t do it illegally or allegally.

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Transportation Licensing Disruptive Innovation Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

It must experiment and innovate. The most immediate benefit to your company may simply be that you will see innovations and ways of operating that you’ve never thought of before, and you can then bring that knowledge back home. You and Your Team Series.

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Short-term Travel Long-term Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. Everyone will have the same machines and everyone will be down the same learning curve on how to use the machines.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The Future of Operations. As the company moves down the learning curve and costs come down, the savings from reduced waste, inventory, and assembly labor will even make it competitive for the mass production segment of the market. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

First, there was a fast-tracked, highly varied learning curve on the commercial side of the business in her twenties. This was followed by an eight-year “plateau” in her thirties, running training for the French operation, when she had her three children.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.”

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This dispersion of practice makes it more likely that a surgeon today may be the only one to perform certain procedures in a given geographic region (particularly outside of large cities) and that innovative ideas, tips, and best practices may arise from outside of the traditional academic “hubs.” ” Enter social media.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Learn more There’s a quote by Gandhi that Harish Kathiresan, innovation strategy manager at United Utilities, strives to live by: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, and learn as if you were to live forever.” From the very start of his career, Harish has operated with a growth mindset.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Been There… Learned from It. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore. Benchmarking.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 57

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Knowledge Sharing and Learning: Coopetition enables the exchange of expertise, resources, and best practices among competitors. In this mutually beneficial environment, companies can accelerate their learning curves, share risks, and foster a culture of innovation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. High Costs, Learning Curves. Operational Statistics. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

To jump to a new learning curve , we must leave behind the relative certainty about status, compensation, and benefits. organizations with a highly engaged workforce increase operating income by 19.2%, while low engagement led to a 32.7% decline in operating profit. This then becomes a quandary.

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Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Constraint Career 12

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. What we know will likely impede our ability to learn and therefore perform.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

As industries face unprecedented levels of disruption and innovation, organizations with deliberate and forward-thinking succession strategies are best positioned to secure long-term growth. Without a formal plan, businesses face a greater risk of operational disruption and potential loss of institutional knowledge.

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Planning Succession Long-term Strategic Planning 195

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

More broadly, the Obama administration set up the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center (“ America Makes ”), a technology support program in Youngstown, Ohio. Organizations will gradually revamp their operations to take advantage of its flexibility and versatility well beyond the factory floor.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

So while the global tech giants come up the learning curve on the nuances of the local context, indigenous players with stronger “contextual intelligence” have a chance to gain an early foothold. The idea was to form a partnership with a local telco to offer a limited number of websites to consumers for free.

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