Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2023

In addition to its product offerings, Tesla has also disrupted traditional business models in the auto industry. In 2016, the company acquired SolarCity , a solar panel manufacturer and installer, and subsequently introduced the Solar Roof , a system that integrates solar panels into the structure of a building’s roof.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies Under current conditions of economic turbulence, workforce shortage, and supply chain disruptions, manufacturing organizations should work towards increasing the efficiency of their operations, achieving business agility and resilience. Here are some of the examples. AdvancedTech. Industry 4.0.

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BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Such companies may be finding that the low-growth environment has undercut their efforts to improve TSR through greater discipline with respect to operating costs and capital. The following are among the report’s key findings. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Under his guidance, LEGO adopted a collaborative ethos, rallying its entire workforce around a pivotal strategy that focused on the iconic LEGO brick, deepened community engagement, and streamlined its operations.

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BCG

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Article Thursday, December 08, 2016. See, for example, “Digitizing Customer Journeys and the New Insurance IT Model,” BCG article, August 2016.) But almost all insurers in the US and Europe use complex legacy technology that constrains their ability to operate in today’s digital world.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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BCG

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Article Wednesday, October 19, 2016. In the first two articles in this series, we explored the strong relationships among technology spending, corporate profits, GDP, and productivity. In the first two articles in this series, we explored the strong relationships among technology spending, corporate profits, GDP, and productivity.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Imagine being able to quickly and accurately calculate how much money a business is sacrificing through imperfect operation, and which areas of the business are draining the most profit. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should. What is Profit Leakage? Printable report.

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BCG

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Article Wednesday, October 12, 2016. See “Why Technology Matters,” BCG article, September 2016.) (See “Why Technology Matters,” BCG article, September 2016.) Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.).

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

This continues through the various pathways in order to search and navigate through the website, for example 'premium best buys', 'in demand' products, fly out pictures for further visual recognition and extensive filtering options for advanced search as well as a quick search.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner.

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BCG

MARCH 31, 2016

Article Thursday, March 31, 2016. This is a direct consequence of the expanding role that digitization is playing in their business and operating models and the demonstrated potential for significant damage resulting from a successful cyber attack. Across industries, companies have been intesifying their focus on cybersecurity.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Article Monday, November 14, 2016. Today, however, when its importance is greater than ever, medtech innovation productivity is in decline. . The problem is the declining productivity of medtech companies, which is compounded by the higher burden of proof of efficacy today’s health care systems require. At least it should be.

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BCG

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Video Monday, October 17, 2016. Jim Whitehurst is the president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source enterprise IT products and services. With a background in business development, finance, and global operations, Whitehurst has a reputation for helping companies flourish—even in the most challenging of times.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Video Tuesday, November 01, 2016. Through its vertically integrated operations, the company controls all aspects of the value chain—from exploration, extraction, and production to refining and distribution—and employs more than 106,000 people worldwide. Lukoil is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. on Thursday said they will start experimenting with unmanned taxi service beginning in 2016. It's just a test, but it won't take five years for live operation. Reader Alain writes. " But here we are. But here we are. Truck Yeah!

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2018

Amazon, Microsoft and Apple also employ platforms in their business models, in the form of online marketplaces, operating systems, application stores, and hardware that link buyers and sellers, or developers and users. Hardware and software sales – where a product is sold. Aggregators and platforms selling services.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Focus Wednesday, November 23, 2016. Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) is a critical area. In all industries, poorly managed MRO processes can mean unnecessarily high costs, low plant and worker productivity, poor product quality, and elevated inventory-holding costs. of revenues, depending on the industry.

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BCG

AUGUST 15, 2016

Focus Monday, August 15, 2016. New value-added segments and alternative products have taken off with surprising speed, intensifying competitive pressures and the need to innovate constantly. Success depends as much on operational excellence as it does on identifying the right strategic path to growth. That’s no surprise.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at Beyond the E-Myth, the latest in a long line of great books by Michael Gerber (a marketing genius who has built a world-wide web of products and services to help small businesses grow). Beyond the E-Myth releases December 7, 2016, so make sure to grab your copy!

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

Chinese people really love their smart phones, and daily life is also being transformed by the many apps used for everything from hailing a car with Didi (the company that bought Uber China in 2016) to ordering food delivery with Ele.me So, what was the new product idea? Once a product takes off, sales are likely to sky-rocket.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

I believe the smartest choice — one that will help them compete against online retailers like Amazon — is to create a better experience for customers and to achieve operational excellence in stores. There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016.

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Kates Kesler

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Studying these companies up close is productive. We have written a new book that explores what those success factors are and how other companies can learn bring their global operating models to life. We discuss the five activators in our February 2016 webinar. To view a recording of the webinar, click here.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 12, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 5, 2019

According to an experiment run by Berker et al (2016), our level of stress is at its highest when the level of uncertainty (predictability ~50%) is at its highest. 2016) Computations of Uncertainty Mediate Acute Stress Responses in Humans. Interestingly enough, it’s in our DNA. And not only relying on the direction to come from above.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2018

government in pushing back against these foreign intelligence operations remains at best uncertain, though we can assume that classification and secrecy hide some actions from the public. The role of the U.S. ” Far more frequently, the government isn’t rushing to the rescue.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Businesses need leaders able to take action amid economic uncertainty and operate effectively in a digital workplace with a diverse workforce. Studies reveal that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations. Journal of Leadership Studies , 7(3), 18-40.

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BCG

APRIL 13, 2016

Perspective Wednesday, April 13, 2016. In an increasingly complex world, companies have to do business in many different markets, work with many different brands, partner with many different suppliers, and use many different operational structures in many different businesses. But they should embrace diversity.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Only operating in the short term or taking too much risk and gambling on one specific future are frequent traps leaders fall into when facing economic uncertainty. Organizational change resilience is responding productively to significant disruptive change and transforming challenges into opportunities. Global Business Network.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The top-performing emerging-market firms innovate more aggressively than their advanced economy rivals: 56% of their revenue comes from new products and services, compared with 48% for firms in advanced economies. We can see that clearly when looking at the productivity record of these countries.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

voters ahead of the 2016 election. Websites operating within the E.U. Their incentive is not to collect as much data as possible: rather, it’s to convince users to buy their products. The GDPR is a recent piece of European Union regulation with the largest direct effects on consumers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. 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.). To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

The firm is headquartered in New York and holds the #20 position in Vault’s top consulting firm rankings for 2016. Buck Consultants now operates out of multiple offices globally with a clientele that includes 45% of Fortune 100 companies. Health and productivity. Retail & Consumer Products. and the world).

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Reflection facilitates learning, provides perspective on self-limiting beliefs when used purposefully, and improves productivity. Evidence suggests spending 15 minutes a day improves productivity by as much as 23% more than those without reflection time. Why Reflection Makes A Big Difference. Di Stefano, Gino, F., Pisano, G.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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