Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

As exciting as that still sounds, the idea of driverless has been around ever since motorised cars were invented back in the 1920s and realised from at least 2009 when Google launched its self-driving car project, Waymo. But one thing it didn’t get right was the flying cars; instead, the closest thing we have are driverless cars.

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Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

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. I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In this slide from a National Security Agency presentation on “Google Cloud Exploitation,” a sketch shows where the “Public Internet” meets the internal “Google Cloud” where user data resides. The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR , operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2013

2009 - Were there any business acquisition loans? 2013 - it’s hard to find a non-SBA acquisition loan on a deal that meets the SBA qualifications. Who benefits? Buyers, banks and especially sellers! Buyers - new markets open up for buyers because of SBA loans. These buyers want to soar, not coast.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

At least 26 detainees were wrongfully held and did not meet the government’s standard for detention. By the way, at a meeting on December 12, 2002, Tenet assured president Bush that the evidence that Iraq had WMDs amounted to a "slam dunk case." Can anyone please explain why the US is still running a torture operation in Cuba?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It knew it had to act fast, so top leaders began by challenging major assumptions about how they operated. They created an excellent product in record time, in time for launch in the 2009 holiday season. Instead of do-it-ourselves, they worked with Google and Motorola. Shared values knit people together. Modify quickly.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

After the massive stimulus and more than doubling of new bank loans in 2009, the government attempted to stabilize credit growth, but the growth of the shadow banking system exploded instead. It now takes 4 renminbi (RMB) of debt to create 1 renminbi of GDP growth from a nearly 1:1 ratio in the early and mid-2000s.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

That sort of growth is impossible to ignore, and in 2009 FTI Consulting was listed as 1 of 100 fastest growing U.S. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Carl Jung (1875-1971) postulated the power of archetypes operating in the human psyche and emphasized the role of the Shadow , those aspects of who we are that have not yet been integrated. This is the second blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% per kilo of beef Novo Campo producers are paid for meat that meets quality standards. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7% of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He held them accountable for meeting sizable improvements, but he also supported the team during challenging periods. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Since Uber was founded, in 2009, its workforce has continued to grow exponentially: 400,000 drivers are considered “ active ” on the Uber platform today, and 1.1 In order to remain active on the system, drivers must meet an average rating target that hovers around 4.6 million drivers are active on the platform globally.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. The Metered Parking System reserve funds were established in 2009 in the amount of $1.15 From 2009 to 2011, the city used $320 million from the Metered Parking Reserves.

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2015

imports and exports — were supposed to wrap up this past weekend in Singapore, but, well, they didn''t quite make that deadline, which means meetings will likely continue into the new year. took the lead in 2009). Negotiations over the huge trade agreement — which, when finished, will govern 40 percent of U.S.''

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. But when we arrived at Langley in early 2009, there were no solid leads on Bin Laden’s whereabouts.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? This blog is an adaptation of their chapter in the ‘bible’ of the field of OD, Practicing Organization Development (3rd Edition, 2009, Rothwell, W.J., This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. The Stigma Against Buffers Buffers are essential for managing uncertainties, yet they often meet resistance, especially in management circles. This is the “integration effect.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. But in 2009, federal regulations applied financial incentives and penalties to drive broad implementation of EMRs.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2014

GMO 10-Year History Let''s step back a bit and look at GMO''s 10-Year history from 1999-2009. The Fed is operating under the principle that it''s easier to get forgiveness than permission. The 2007-2009 decline wiped out the entire total return of the S&P 500, in excess of Treasury bills, all the way back to June 1995.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The differences were dramatic.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. We held scores of open meetings involving our advisory committees during the two years I was national coordinator.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Meet the Editors. One mobile carrier -- Greek mobile telecommunications operator COSMOTE - is succeeding at retaining customers by personalizing offers to its customers across all of the touchpoints that they use. Meet the Editors. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Customer Strategy Trends. Weekly Digest.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector. .” ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. It takes time to learn how to operate efficiently in a new clinical delivery system, and higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay for locum tenens’ patients could reflect this learning curve. Our study was recently published in JAMA.

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1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2013

Meet the Editors. In 2012, the first full year that the initiative was in operation, the company saw a two-point increase in its purchase satisfaction index while CRM-based sales follow-up activities went up by 70 percent. Meet the Editors. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Customer Strategy Trends. Weekly Digest.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Meet the Editors. Meet the Editors. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Customer Strategy Trends. Emerging Business Tactics. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Weekly Digest. Infographics. Gartner | 1to1 Awards. Customer Champions. Customer Experience. Customer Loyalty. Customer Service. Customer Strategy. Data Analytics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

As a result, some larger health systems’ physician operations are generating nine-figure operating losses, which are major contributors to the deterioration in hospital earnings. Then, beginning in 2009, the Obama administration’s policies increased the exodus of physicians from private practices to health systems.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The number of French business bankruptcies hit a record in the third quarter of 2013 and the yearly total is on a pace that will come close to the total reached in the dark days of the great financial collapse in 2009. The Minister announced that he wanted "to meet as soon as possible" with management and the unions. How comforting.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2017

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. While Tesla has been rightfully lauded for a sleek exterior and technology breakthroughs in automation, it has faced complaints that the fit and finish of its interiors don’t meet luxury standards and lack features that consumers have come to expect.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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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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