Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. It’s not that development itself isn’t important. So they’re looking for ways to cultivate those competencies and, in the process, feeding the fad-driven leadership development market. Paul Garbett for HBR.

Leadership 33

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 33

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Profit rewards the creation of products that consumers want, the effective marketing and distribution of those products so consumers can get them, and the efficiency with which a firm accomplishes these tasks so it can offer a better deal than competitors. What processes led to the development and delivery of a given product or service?

Company 28

Company Productivity Efficiency Operations 28

LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. Autopsy #1 – Borders. What do you think?

Change Management 34

Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. Our clinics reported the early development of the disease in huddles.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

McKinsey 28

McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Each of the potential business benefits of 3D printing carries tax implications that could alter the equation for any anticipated operating efficiency or return on investment. Are there operations you would shed?

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Intellectual Property Automotive Analysis Pharmaceuticals 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more.

Productivity 34

Productivity Automotive Industry Healthcare 34

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PwC moved on to acquire Ant’s Eye View, in August 2012, a social media strategy development and consulting firm. In contrast to many unregulated consulting firms (strategy firms top this list), members of the PwC network are not allowed to operate as a global partnership , which includes being identified as a single multinational corporation.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Talent McKinsey Apparel Sales 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. With that background, please consider the Extreme Tech report FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator. Escrow accounts were not as protected.

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Pharmaceuticals Industry Operations Chemicals 77

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Nearly all of these practices run counter to conventional banking wisdom, which holds that to be efficient a bank must consolidate operational activities and centralize decision making on matters like pricing and lending. The case of Svenska Handelsbanken is illustrative.

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Management Banking Pharmaceuticals Productivity 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

At EY, where some of us work, we have developed a tool for social media analytics called SMAART that is able to understand sentiment within consumer and influencer groups. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

Change Management 28

Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

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Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Eli Lilly and Company measures the health of its alliances with a “Voice of the Alliance Survey.” Conflict in each of these areas is interconnected and is found in every alliance.

Productivity 28

Productivity Survey Resources Training 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.” Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Government Research Journal Biotechnology 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, Whole Foods developed geo-fences around its stores, as well as its competitors’ stores, to target relevant audiences and achieved a post-click conversion rate that was three times higher than the national average. Finally, the simultaneous optimization of trust and relevance is an inherently difficult balancing act.

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Data Media Guidelines Travel 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Several organizations for whom we had worked or had researched used a technique we call “innovation communities” to structure strategic conversations so that they’re both efficient and effective. These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties.

Strategy 28

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

They also help you develop new relationships through outreach. Not only will you be educating and nurturing your leads, but it will help you start conversations and develop relationships with your leads. This is an efficient way to re-purpose your content and create more value out of what you’ve already produced.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68