LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Decide What's Important ). Discipline III.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Kaplan Audience Chief Executive Officer Seminar 65

Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Tom Johnson, an economist and self-described “recovering management accountant,” is well known for his early contributions to the traditional accounting profession. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

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Management Kaplan Activity Based Costing Deming 28

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., In a previous role as President of Ziff-Davis Education (now called Element K), Bill oversaw the leading supplier of computer training products worldwide and supervised the operations of ZD University, the leading web-based computer skills site.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Addressing a managers meeting, Brian Halla, CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., Listening with their full attention, the audience members heard Mr. Halla talk about his concern about the economy, then lead to the need for managers to look for near-term opportunities for growth. a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

These weak leaders manage by activity rather than by results. A similar study by The Economist Intelligence Unit of 343 business found “the firms that ‘slowed down to speed up’ improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating profits over a three-year period.”

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. An entrepreneurial beacon. Rural innovation.

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Incubator Diversity Kaplan Objective 49

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

Lattice organizations provide options that align career aspirations and personal needs with corporate objectives and operational requirements. Ami Kaplan is a Senior Partner at Deloitte, advising some of the firm's largest global clients on business, risk management and other financial and organizational challenges.

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Kaplan Short-term Career Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

James Serafino, in facilities management, handled the framing and hanging. Shemeka Flores, an assistant with a penchant for event planning, handled the wine, cheese, other food, and decorations with input from Rob Aurigema, the chief operating officer and a wine connoisseur.

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Power Hedge Chief Operating Officer Kaplan 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Instead, narrowing attention to the preferred aspects of ourselves vastly oversimplifies who we are, what stands in our way, and what it takes to operate at our best. Kaplan and Robert Kaiser demonstrated so persuasively in an HBR article several years ago.

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Maslow Kaplan Learning-by-Doing Positioning 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Kaplan and Michael E. Health Operations' Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 9

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974.

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Bureaucracy Kaplan Drucker Politics 345

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

The main criteria were that the speakers came from outside the industry, and would be able to tell stories (sort of like TED-talks) about how other companies went about innovation and reinvention.

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Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” For the first time, a major retailer is giving prominent shelf space — albeit virtual — to companies operating in a better way. Rob Kaplan, Director of Sustainability at Walmart, gave an example of this important difference using electronics. And third, being best-in-class is not the same as being sustainable.

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Products Productivity Supply Chain Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Many have allocated personal innovation and “pet project” time to break up the normal thinking grooves, or instituted downtime as standard operating policy. Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a speaker, educator, and managing principal at InnovationPoint , where he teaches leaders how to create business breakthroughs.

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Kaplan Policies Constraint Innovation 163