Martinka Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

I read two long articles, one in the Seattle Times and the other in the Wall Street Journal. Have a list of tactics, whether it’s for growth, margin improvement, expense reduction, process improvement, an improved culture, or something else. Know what you are going to do. Get into the details. Shed your ego.

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Small Business Energy Real Estate Financial 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

To be clear, however, the match between RPA and business processes isn’t a perfect one if the goal is to redesign or improve the process rather than to automate its current state. As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. While keeping CX top of mind throughout the whole M&A process is challenging, the benefits are undeniable: It keeps your most coveted customers and your team intact.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Employees who are not empowered to improve their work or solve customer problems. So, we applaud Amazon’s decision and hope others will do the same.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Systematically manage apprenticeship.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. What to do. What not to do.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Development Leadership Operations Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Since most of Nemours’s patient revenue was from fee-for-service contracts, we designed this pilot program to integrate our population health expertise with our clinical operation, in an effort to better understand value-based care and reimbursement models and to further improve health outcomes in a population of children with asthma.

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Transportation Methodologies Process Improvement System 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

For example, every year, during the annual business planning cycle I always notice that managers propose a larger budget. Improve Productivity: What can we do to complete tasks more quickly? When automation is coupled with process changes, the resulting impact can be substantial. ” Project overload is real.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. “No longer was I focusing solely on what I could get done as a manager,” he says.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Managers need a framework for navigating this new landscape and harnessing the power of these new tools. For managers of more established firms, this mode can allow small, entrepreneurial teams to develop new product and service ideas and test them at low cost. The bad news is that these opportunities also create some new challenges.

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Intellectual Property Tools Development Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Displacement can be combatted in a number of ways, from process improvements to government trade actions, and cost advantages tend to be temporary sources of competitiveness, but disruption presents a more profound challenge. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Company Apparel Pharmaceuticals Industry 35

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. I felt like they got a lot out of it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. for valuable support and data for this article. Why was cardiac surgery ready and spinal surgery not?

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Healthcare System Insurance Insurance 28

Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Company How To Tools Process Improvement 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. Recommenders are digital platforms for virtuous cycles. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. They’re defined by high levels of “buy-in” from owners, investors, managers, and employees. Mind the Mittelstand.

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Engineering Government Automotive Research 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import. Most Mexico country managers believe one of the following scenarios is likely: A long period of populist-driven uncertainty.

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Intellectual Property Industry Marketing Policies 31