Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In 1992, to free-up warehouse space, the UK team promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. The offer was implemented so “successfully” that the company could meet neither the demand for vacuum cleaners, nor the cost of the flights. A little later, the U.S.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. The company failed on multiple fronts. Autopsy #2 – Hummer. They were caught behind the times.

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The Management Centre

JANUARY 26, 2023

Prepare for chunking: reading a whole book in one go may not be that productive. Burkeman looks at time management in a wholly different way – helping to go beyond the usual advice (don’t sweat the small stuff, get focused, be productive, use a diary and a to-do-list etc), and presents techniques suited to the modern always-on age.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. The advantages of collaborating are clear: it reduces costs, lowers risk and allows carmakers to share in the expertise already gathered by these tech firms, all of which speeds up the time it takes to bring products to market.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I really enjoyed meeting the consultants, but ultimately feel BCG is a better fit. I imagine someone interested in product/marketing management is better off going into industry. Or are clients unhappy because your products stink? Or are retail partners selling the product in such a way that is somehow incomplete?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. D-BASE/Getty Images. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Companies have traditionally gone the self-disruption route when they’ve wanted to develop products that their existing customers would value in the future. Ford seems to realize this in their rhetoric — the whole “mobility” notion — but the new company is not one designed to meet that challenge.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 28, 2007

I've recently been introduced to a new web site and production house focused on making videos for nonprofit causes: Charity Docs (dot org). I've been very impressed with the short films I've seen on their demo site so far, and look forward to seeing more from them in the future. about the site DoGooder TV from See 3 Media.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2017

Retailers such as Macy’s and The Limited are closing hundreds of stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs as people buy more and more products online, and others are testing robotic assistants or planning for autonomous stores. Or child care, elder care, psychological services, rehabilitation, or meeting space for community groups?

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

Keep in mind that some shows require more production than others. This tool helps simplify your workflow and guarantees your podcast meets industry best practices. If you focus too much on production, you'll get overwhelmed. If you choose to have cohosts, try to keep your group small. Try to keep the process simple.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. ” Simple things like rotating who leads the weekly team meeting can help project fairness. Sutton recommends making team meetings more participatory. Maybe you’re both fans of the same hockey team or you both like foreign films.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Kelly Collins-Lintz – actress of both film and movies, blogger, writer, momager (her kids are also in the acting biz on shows like Bosch, the Walking Dead, and Under the Dome) says “listening to your gut is the best way to create your own path to success,” and this woman knows what she is talking about! Betsy: Wow.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2017

She drummed her fingers on the editing desk and squinted at the monitors in front of her as she scrolled through footage from the season finale of Dope , her production company’s long-running drama series about DEA agents. These are C3 shows: Carla Tremont Productions. And it felt good—but not perfect. It’s your name.

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Management Consulted

MAY 25, 2014

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Meet Gallup Press – yet another branch of an already rapidly growing information empire.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2016

Someone with adaptability might help you speak to productive change. Because it connected her to a memory of whom she was with, what film she saw, and how she felt. They might even bring snacks to a meeting that might be heated. He inserts that Includer voice into community planning meetings so better decisions are made.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 9, 2017

Cut to Bangalore, India, and meet Kala, a middle-aged mother of two sitting in front of her computer in the makeshift home office that she shares with her husband. So who are the people behind the AI curtain? This blend of AI and humans, who follow through when the AI falls short, isn’t going away anytime soon.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Efforts at strengthening teamwork stop, and meetings change from a time of joint decisions and buy-in to being when the leader announces what everyone else should do. Creativity and productivity decline. Since the leader’s views and actions are the only ones that matter, followers reduce their willingness to be proactive.

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Buzzsprout

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Product reviews Help take the guesswork out of purchases by doing product reviews for your listeners. Hands on Tech Kad's Review: Boxes and Products Explored 6. Depending on your style, you can narrate the story, or add production like sound effects, background music, etc. Talking Tech The Vergecast 5.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Consumers almost always tell researchers that they prefer to have many versions of a product from which to choose. But, in fact, consumers’ perceptions of how many choices they prefer change depending on whether they intend to use an item for pleasure or to meet a functional need. They will therefore prefer a large assortment.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

And the lessons we learn from this cornerstone of modern culture apply to organizations, meetings, tech, politics and almost everything we do together. In fact, the script is exactly what the playwright intended, but the director and the actors embellish the script in each production and performance. And meetings?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

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.” For example, 3M, GE, and Toyota constantly pull apart their products, systems, and processes to find ways to improve them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Instead he asked difficult and probing questions during regular review meetings that helped frame issues and sharpen discussions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

Another way to offer this support is to give your staff the gift of your presence by turning away from your computer and putting down your smartphone when meeting or speaking with them. Encourage “technology-free meetings” whenever possible. Frosted film or patterned glass walls instead of clear glass.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. He convened town hall meetings with local staff and organized regular national voice-of-the-village calls attended by as many as 4,000 people from offices and clinics around the country.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Instead he asked difficult and probing questions during regular review meetings that helped frame issues and sharpen discussions.

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NeoAcademic

MARCH 18, 2020

You really don’t need to fake the kind of production values and planning that come out the work done with that sort of lead time. Open Zoom/OBS/whatever Click Record / Start Meeting Blasphemy! But think of it this way: why would film studios develop entire custom-designed buildings if they could just always record outside?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford. The SFO culture had a strong bias towards maintaining the highest possible production values.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The following afternoon, Song was back at the Shanguang store, meeting with the retailer’s CEO, Li Gui Ying. And then I’m meeting with Rolf.” Simon, she’s a Chinese singer and actress who recently switched from TV to films. That’s why we’re not changing our product designs now.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2018

For example, for the last four years OHUB has produced HBCU@SXSW (SXSW is the popular annual gathering in Austin, Texas, that explores “what’s next in the worlds of film, culture, music, and technology”) as an immersive early exposure and job placement initiative.

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