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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. Extending the network.

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Purchasing Managers Have a Lead Role to Play in Cyber Defense

Harvard Business

firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Key suppliers should have to meet performance and training standards and then should be regularly assessed to ensure that they are meeting them. They should be.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

The metrics also changed. More than 20% of employees took the training online or in workshops in the first few months of the program, and employee submissions to its sales lead and job candidate referral programs were up 43% and 19% respectively. The results?

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Top Consulting Firms

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It was ranked #3 best place to work on Glassdoor in 2018 and 2017. Bain& Company was the #1 best-ranked place to work in 2019 according to Glassdoor and #1 in North America in 2017. In 2017, this consulting firm was named among the “100 Best Companies” for Leadership in Family Benefits and Paid Leave by Working Mother magazine.