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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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How I Ditched the Fear of Being Seen and Launched my REAL Business

Consulting Matters

The team was poring over the guest research when the most senior operations and creative executives looked at each other across the table and said at the same time, “You know what – we need to be a DISNEY theme park.” But like everyone else who operates in their zone of genius, I blew it off and minimized it.

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Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. The next explanation is that Kodak mismanaged its investment in digital cameras, overshooting the market by trying to match performance of traditional film rather than embrace the simplicity of digital.

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Tired of the Bears? Get Bearcrow!

MishTalk

"You''ve Got Mail" More Inside a "Ding Dong" Than Cutler''s Head BearCrow Supports Local Schools Buy BearCrow - Do It For The Kids "BWA" Recognized Disease Under Obamacare Dr. N.E.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. Roger Smith’s dream of a lights-out factory has only been realized in a very few operations—robots building robots, for instance—and not in the automotive world.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

I worked with them for about 6 months basically as an associate producer doing different things, and then that translated into a job as a full-time producer at Inertia Films where I’m at today. So depending on your tax status, maybe you are an independent contractor so you can call it Garrett Films, or whatever you want to.