Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

Enterprise 134

Enterprise Education Methodologies Company 134

PM Alliance

JUNE 30, 2023

Developing the capabilities to achieve consistent success across every project—whether it’s small and routine or big and complex—is the key to operational and financial sustainability. 4: Provide training based on a single, shared methodology. 3: Centralize your project data.

Methodologies 75

Methodologies Training Training Tools 75

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT.

Agile 70

Agile Methodologies Software Development 70

Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This means that each manager supervises a smaller group of employees. Enhanced control –A tall structure gives senior management more control over the company’s operations. Reduced costs – Flat organizations can often operate more efficiently because they have fewer layers of management. That’s a win for everyone involved.

Organizational Development 162

Organizational Development Efficiency Development Productivity 162

Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

The STAP is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future.

Agile 96

Agile Strategy Strategy& Strategy 96

PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

They can also be important partners in securing the cooperation of other internal groups, whether they’re contributors to the project effort or they are among the work groups affected by the initiative’s process and workflow changes. Deal with shifting priorities.

Methodologies 84

Methodologies Financial Data Metrics 84

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment is Brimstone’s proven methodology to help organizations gain – and sustain – the coordination, collaboration, and clarity that deliver results.

Case Study 66

Case Study Case Studies Study Leadership 66

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The event will allow project managers to earn PDUs, learn from expert speakers during the educational sessions, acquire new skills, master new technologies and methodologies, and network with peers. The conference attendees will learn the insights from the latest PMO research, and learn about new PMO ideas, methodologies, and products.

Industry 130

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Step 2: Measure operating environment. The business and operating environment varies remarkably across states. Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images. over the next three years.

Strategy 71

Strategy Strategy& Strategy Operations 71

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

I’m not a strict operator. The majority of my successes in my career have been in getting those two groups to kind of talk together and to take the engineering vision, and kind of bound it with the operational limitation, and make sure everybody is on the same page. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

Interviews 156

Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team.

Exercises 79

Exercises Leadership Methodologies Research 79

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

Study 71

Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% Despite these strictures, the Brazilian operations of McDonald’s and Carrefour reaped similar types of benefits as the slaughterhouses — $12.5 of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

Methodologies 73

Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 73

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

Exercises 129

Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 129

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

On the one hand are data science groups that are too independent of the business. At the same time, the group eschewed traditional business norms such as checking in with clients, presenting results graphically, explaining analytic results in the context of the business, and connecting complex findings to conventional wisdom.

Methodologies 71

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

Data 70

Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 70

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Operations. Kearney works collaboratively with companies to transform their operations in order to gain unprecedented competitive advantage. Kearney’s strategic direction, practice areas, and industry groups.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

Agile 71

Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 71

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For our final project, the class was broken into small groups and each group wrote a 40 page paper examining a thesis in an industry of their choosing. My group chose to examine the U.S. No other occupation offers you an insight into corporate strategy or operations in such a short time. market for latex condoms.

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The Boston Consulting Group. Honorable Mentions for boutique consulting firms in NYC (not big enough to make our top firms list, but still cool places to work and great places to start or advance careers): The Brattle Group is an economic anti-trust consulting firm with an office in New York and HQ in Cambridge, MA.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A way to get started in applying supply-chain methods to health care is to identify a few targets of opportunity: discrete, non-urgent medical conditions of high frequency that have a high aggregate cost and a high variation in price and quality among provider groups. These are good places to begin applying supply chain methodology.

Operations 70

Operations Groups Tools Report 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

Company 70

Company Airlines Survey Methodologies 70

Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

These systems operate within boundaries subjected to the whims of environmental changes such as: economic crises, increased competitive threats and industry shifts. The human system operates the technology. Think of technology in the broadest sense: Technology=Methodology. Customers often demand new and different things.

System 57

System Consulting Organizational Development Methodologies 57

Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I only realized how powerful my proactive advocacy skills were once I led a mastermind group's final session. Understanding these stages helps you paint a picture of what's next for an organization and why and how they need to mature their leadership and operating practices. This is where your systems thinking comes in.

Consulting 156

Consulting System Sales Meeting 156

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Sincere recognition and appreciation are indispensable tools for engaging employees, and three primary groups at Disney recognize and appreciate our Cast Members: The Organization: Recognition programs are a major part of an organization’s culture. Let our experience change yours.

Culture 71

Culture Methodologies Resumes Tools 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

We have found that a VBC approach can decrease the direct costs of care for a group of children with a chronic condition. Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies. Our pilot effort was supported in part by a federal grant.

Transportation 71

Transportation Methodologies Process Improvement System 71

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

They also gained important insights about operational excellence from two eye hospital organizations founded by Rotterdam Eye Hospital: the World Association of Eye Hospitals and the European Association of Eye Hospitals. If an idea worked, sooner or later other groups would ask if they could try it too, and the best ideas spread organically.

Airlines 70

Airlines Operations Training Training 70

PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Assemble a site assessment team You may not be able to bring together the full group of experts that will ultimately need to visit your shortlist of preferred location.

Productivity 83

Productivity Engineering Report Groups 83

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Most models for change management are rooted in research from the 1940s that was originally designed to explain how small groups adapt to change, not large complex organizations. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists. Academics may not have helped us.

Change Management 71

Change Management Data Marketing Management 71

PM Alliance

APRIL 29, 2022

There are so many workflows powering your organization’s operations that identifying and documenting all of them can be exhausting. As you work with stakeholder groups to identify where new processes will be needed, don’t stop there—you also want to uncover how new workflows will tie in with existing processes.

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Operations Training Training 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. Marketers gain visibility and transparency to differentiate between dormant and loyal customers, thereby expanding their strategies to send targeted offers to each group. Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam.

Marketing 129

Marketing Advertising Media Video 129

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. The powerful thing about the Brimstone methodology ,” shares Andy, “is that it’s designed to be executed quickly and have the strategies be executed quickly. Build Agility.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

With risk capital at a premium and the public markets closed, startups needed a methodology to preserve capital and survive long enough to generate revenue and profits. Lean was designed to inform the founder’s vision to operate at speed, not as a focus group for consensus for those without deep convictions.

Methodologies 70

Methodologies Agile Productivity Development 70

PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

And because most system implementations are more than just IT projects, bringing numerous operational considerations and workflow changes as part of the equation, project teams sometimes struggle to bring a diverse group of stakeholders into alignment.

ROI 73

ROI Data Financial Operations 73

PM Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Businesses are increasingly turning to more powerful technologies to optimize their operations and deliver new innovations, but these large-scale projects can be unwieldy and disruptive if they aren’t coordinated and managed properly. These areas represent potential risks that you’ll need to address before they derail your efforts.

Enterprise 72

Enterprise Data Operations System 72