Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Value stream maps (VSMs) show both the material and the information flow in any kind of end-to-end process such as order to cash, or new product introduction. Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. What is value stream mapping?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

The value of bank branches, for example, is no longer to manually process deposits, but to solve more complex customer problems like providing mortgages. In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. Value is then created on a higher level than when people were busy doing more basic things.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. For example, do you plan to have a shutdown for the Christmas period?”

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). This culture highlights coming in first.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2019

This helps to set expectations and increase the team’s efficiency at completing routine tasks. For example, a simple ground rule of responding to clients within 24 hours of receiving an email can go a long way towards increasing the efficiency of the team. Of course, there are risks attached to such an approach.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

Challenger safety – This is the last stage when others are able to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. I’ve got many personal examples, and I am sure you do as well. This is the stage where individuals can innovate. I could count on him for directions.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Many of us are also becoming more demanding — we are less and less willing to settle for standardized, mass market products when it is far easier to seek out the niche products that are tailored to our specific needs and context. For example, one survey indicated that the use of ad-blockers among U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. An example would be Google in search, or Facebook in social networking. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon!

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Over the last several years we have seen hospitals invest millions of dollars in the form of advertising, expansion of services, construction and enhancement of facilities, and adoption of the latest technologies to improve efficiencies and appeal to patients. Serves as the foundation for marketing communications. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Seek out what’s not working: The old adage says that bad news doesn’t travel up. Consider this example: Derek was leading the integration of several internal units into a merged organization. But for real learning to occur, people need to feel psychologically safe to share the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Similar to the way you continue to switch up your workout program to strengthen a new muscle group, or travel to a new country to expand your worldview (both positive examples of change), employees and clients can largely benefit from change. Anything less is bad practice. Embracing Change.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

As you develop the standard content, you will uncover both good and bad examples of sterling and not-so-sterling prose. Retain both example types to demonstrate how you want to shape the narrative that conveys the basics. For example, a pricing lead may also take a turn in finance assessing indirect rate impacts.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. With productized, you do it the other way around. It forced me to put a stake in the ground.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2016

According to my aunt, who accepted the Medal of Freedom on his behalf (because at that point he was too sick to travel), Drucker was also unbelievably embarrassed that “ management by objective ” had been used to justify the Iraq War. By the turn of the century, this was much more evident, at least in private.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Many of life’s major arenas and how we approach or practice them, such as environmentalism, writing, travel, war and peace, politics and rebellion, philosophy and introspection, are steeped within the life and legend of Henry David Thoreau. Rote memorization, for example, was out as was corporal punishment.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Consider this example. When she was promoted to manager of a new team, she immediately dug into the new product she was assigned, as well as her team members’ work.

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2016

During dedicated writing periods, work as productively and efficiently as possible. For example: • Do 40 hours of research by September. It’s a great way to boost your writing productivity and creativity. Remember that writing is a journey that changes the traveler. One: Set Deadlines.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. Here are just a few examples: The travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, which has raised fears among U.S. of German gross national product, a first-order economic loss.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a good example of an organization that is making the most of its D&A function, applying it in scheduling to reduce expenses, for example, reducing the need for teams to fly from city to city for games on back-to-back nights. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? All of the above?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?). Lawmakers face a critical choice.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

With over 175 million active users worldwide, Pinterest thrives on providing users with relevant ideas: what to wear, what to cook, how to furnish your home, and where to travel. For example, while women typically make up roughly 16 % of software engineers in the U.S. It can’t just be left up to HR , either. referrals).

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Marriott, for example, uses digital technology to streamline the hotel experience for its consumers, particularly its high-value business travelers. Furthermore, labor can now be more efficiently allocated to other value-added activities throughout the store. What are your customer’s biggest pain points? The result?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

People flock to Facebook, for example, because most of their friends and family are on it, which in turn allows Facebook to collect a large amount of data about us, and attract advertisers. Travel to Singapore, for example, and you will see why. That logic sometimes holds, but more often it does not.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, even those parts of care that could be freed from the doctor’s office remain tied to it, with schedules optimized for doctors’ productivity rather than what’s best for the patient. Our view is that early conceptions of connected health and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) traveled a flawed path.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. ” 4.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

I traveled to headquarters to meet the team, figure out the culture there, and get a clear sense of who controls what. But in many ways, they remained strangers, and that took a toll on the business, affecting employee satisfaction and productivity. Employees want to feel connected to one another.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently. That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and running.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Consider the following examples: In the late 1800s, gasoline-powered vehicles promised to revolutionize transportation, allowing people to travel further, faster and more safely. If a competitor’s product offers the same features at the same price, there’s no reason to switch. The Segway faced similar challenges.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Businesses invest a great deal of time and money in interventions that claim to increase workers’ productivity through on-the-job training, new protocols, advice from consultants, and so on. Recent research suggests that there’s a surprising input into productivity that no one ever thinks about: clean air.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Insurance industry observers, for their part, believe that the innovative distributed ledger could introduce a variety of improvements and efficiencies to the insurance landscape, and have the following four applications: Fraud detection. He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. Identity management.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. We find it useful to start with four qualities most executives want their organizations to have: responsiveness, reliability, efficiency, and perennity (e.g., Efficiency through syndication.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

Creativity and risk-taking are essential to overcoming challenges, but businesses often reward efficiency and avoid risk. improved operational productivity. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. reduced costs and increased revenue.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

For example, a store like Macy’s can build its presence on a beacon platform that can be downloaded by shoppers as a mobile app. After that, each time shoppers with the app enter a beacon-enabled store, they can receive promotional messages or deals on their device about products in the aisles they are browsing.

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