Gina Abudi

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The post Strategic and Operational Planning appeared first on Gina Abudi. Leadership engaging employees operational planning strategic planning strategic plans strategy planningEngaging Employees to Contribute to the Plans. It’s business planning time again – especially if your fiscal year follows the calendar. Many organizations leave planning to the executives and other high level management. This year, get your employees involved in planning.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Operations leaders routinely make critical decisions across the entire value chain. However, many operations leaders must climb a steep learning curve to understand the best ways to apply advanced analytics. Article Thursday, December 15, 2016.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. But many OSHA inspections lead to substantial improvements in a firm’s operations.

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McKinsey

OCTOBER 3, 2016

When combined, digital innovation and operations-management discipline boost organizations’ performance higher, faster, and to greater scale than has previously been possible.

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McKinsey

JANUARY 25, 2018

This operating model offers business leaders the opportunity for wins in customer experience, cost reduction, and prospects for growth. Our Insights

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BCG

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Bank operating models continue to evolve in response to new regulations, digitization, a volatile economic and risk environment, external threats, and advances by nontraditional competitors. Article Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

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McKinsey

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Digital-native companies have captured value by mastering the use of next-generation operating models. Now established companies must race to catch up. Our Insights

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McKinsey

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Companies may be able to get digital transformations off the ground by separating digital from conventional IT, but that approach is not sustainable. Here’s a better way. Our Insights

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McKinsey

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Difficult times for operators call for questioning old orthodoxies to win. Our Insights

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Operations 84

McKinsey

MARCH 7, 2017

Each company’s path to a new operating model is unique. But successful transformations are all constructed with the same set of building blocks. Our Insights

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McKinsey

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To break out of a performance rut, US regional banks must fundamentally redesign and simplify their operating models. Our Insights

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We recently worked with the CEO of a company who, supported by a large consulting firm, had launched heavy-weight business … Blog

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McKinsey

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The former GSMA chairman and Telenor CEO discusses what telecoms operators need to do to adapt in the new competitive landscape. Telecommunications Insights

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McKinsey

JANUARY 12, 2018

By developing and pursuing high-potential use cases, telcos can unlock hidden value and ignite an analytics-driven transformation. Our Insights

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McKinsey

JUNE 24, 2016

The right investment in sales operations can unlock sustainable growth. New trends are forcing sales leaders to rethink how they sell. Our insights

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McKinsey

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

By transforming their networks and operations with the newest technologies, mobile operators could double their cash-flow conversion within five years. Our Insights

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. Article Tuesday, May 10, 2016.

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McKinsey

MARCH 1, 2017

Doing that requires reinventing the operating model. Companies need to increase revenues, lower costs, and delight customers. Our Insights

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Operations Manager takes the handbook and executes on it. The operations manager makes it run on time. Operations managers shouldn't do experiments. A career is often based on one of these three stances: The Scientist does experiments.

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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 28, 2014

However the bigger learning and training opportunity is to arm leaders and their teams with new models and systems that will help them to upgrade their leadership operating system. What does it mean to ‘upgrade the leadership operating system’? In alignment with the research our company Evolutionary Business Solutions has acquired the rights to provide evolutionary new models that helps leaders to upgrade their operating systems.

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Cheryl Cran

OCTOBER 28, 2014

However the bigger learning and training opportunity is to arm leaders and their teams with new models and systems that will help them to upgrade their leadership operating system. What does it mean to ‘upgrade the leadership operating system’? In alignment with the research our company Evolutionary Business Solutions has acquired the rights to provide evolutionary new models that helps leaders to upgrade their operating systems.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. For IT to operate in the data and analytics space often takes realigning roles and responsibilities. Analytics Operations IT Digital Articl

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McKinsey

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Before setting out toward operational excellence, companies must see where they stand. A good maturity assessment provides more than a set of coordinates: it also maps out the first steps. Our Insights

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies. After working closely with over twenty large US and Europe based global companies during the past decade, Gregory Kesler and Amy Kates concluded that the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. Bridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 22, 2014

Organization Design (General) Publications

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Operations 100

Kates Kesler

AUGUST 22, 2014

Blog Organization Design (General) Publications

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Operations 100

BCG

MARCH 21, 2017

Shale operators must do what is necessary to negotiate today’s highly challenging environment while maintaining the gains they have made in operational efficiency and positioning themselves for a volatile future. Focus Tuesday, March 21, 2017.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 1, 2014

Amy and Greg share insights for bringing the global matrix to life. Click here to watch and listen to the 60 minute webinar originally presented on March 24, 2014 through the Organization Design Community. Blog Organization Design (General) Publications

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In yet another hypocritical salvo, President Obama Hits Russia with Tough Sanctions Over Election Hacking. Specifically, Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats, giving them 72 hours to leave. Obama also imposed sanctions against six individuals. Bear in mind, these actions come from a nation that tapped Merkel’s phone. more…). Economics

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Consulting Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Consulting and Operating On The 12-Minute-A-Day Methodology with John Mitchell: Podcast #32 is a post from: Consulting Success. When working hard doesn’t work, there has to be something else. A defining moment happened in John Mitchell’s life where he was afraid he was not getting the exceptional life of freedom, lifestyle, and sense of accomplishment that he had always wanted.

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McKinsey

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As the global energy transition accelerates, upstream operators must modernize and shift to more economic operating models. Where and how should they seek the next generation of efficiency gains? Our Insights

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McKinsey

MARCH 17, 2017

The benefits of improved customer experience can be fleeting unless changes to supporting back-end operations are made, as well. Our Insights

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Operations 87

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Essentially it is a fresh start, and it can begin any time we have an operational breakdown, to remind people of the need for change and continual improvement.

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MishTalk

JULY 23, 2016

Just this week a truck driver informed me that autonomous trucks are at least “decades away” It’s 2016, six to … Continue reading → Economics

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Operations 63

McKinsey

MARCH 14, 2017

Here’s how to use them to enhance productivity and efficiency, reduce operational risks, and improve customer experiences. Full intelligent process automation comprises five key technologies. Our Insights

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Ronald Coase nailed it back in 1937 when he identified scalable efficiency as the key driver of the growth of large institutions. It’s far easier and cheaper to coordinate the activities of a large number of people if they’re within one institution rather than spread out across many independent organizations. But here’s the challenge. Scalable efficiency works best in stable environments that are not evolving rapidly.

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MishTalk

JUNE 8, 2015

Above: Komatsu heavy earthmoving truck at the Tom Price iron ore mine, operated by Rio Tinto Group, near Perth, Australia. the Japanese manufacturer of earthmoving and construction machines, to purchase new heavy haulers for its mining operations north of Fort McMurray.

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McKinsey

MAY 25, 2016

Banks and other financial institutions can generate important improvements in their operating model if they focus more on areas that have previously been viewed as relatively basic. Operational Risk is often at the heart of major events that can lead to significant loss of value. The authors argue that there are some common challenges facing banks wanting a more effective operational risk management approach, and then explain how these can be approached.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. A major train operator, for example, designed an advanced analytics solution in order to better understand the failure behavior of a major battery pack in one of its train models.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. Turning your current analytics operation into a machine-learning-savvy “model factory” requires some changes, of course. There are many different types of machine learning, and a variety of definitions of the term.

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