Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths from complications or other post-operative issues. Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g., Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Operations Research System Culture 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. ” Contact.

Strategy 28

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. An increasingly common response is to install ad blockers, a trend that is having a major punitive effect on the industry. Remonetizing Media Consumption.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in their original article, “conventional planning operates on the premise that managers can extrapolate future results from a well-understood and predictable platform of past experience.” ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. . ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The airline industry has experienced great volatility from deregulation, takeovers through mergers and acquisitions, and, as always, unpredictable forces of nature. There can be a lot of stress in this industry. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

Productivity 28

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QEmploy

JUNE 28, 2019

These include LGBT metrics, evaluation mechanisms, diversity training programs, as well as gender transition guidelines. First of all, they were rated on their Workforce Protection , meaning their policies include sexual orientation and gender identity for all operations. Read also: Pros and Cons of a Consulting Career.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is frequently the case in industrial production. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. It’s very difficult to know without building and testing the system.

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