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Way Faster than a Speeding Bullet
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4 Ways to Improve Specialty Health Care in the U.S.
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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This
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Genpact CEO Tiger Tyagarajan: AI Is Getting Good, But Still Can't Replace Human Curiosity
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GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
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Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketers and finance people seldom see eye to eye. The makers say, “This product will open up a whole new market segment.” Finance people respond, “It’s a bad investment. The IRR is only 8%.” Why are they so often in opposition? The financial criteria used to decide if a project will be profitable are entirely […] -
Use This Framework to Predict the Success of Your Big Data Project
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Learning in the Thick of It
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Crap Circles
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleThe most dubious business plan can look solid—even smart—if it’s cast as a virtuous circle. “See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy—which generate profits that we invest in innovation!” Who could argue with that? Indeed, the merit of self-reinforcing systems seems so obvious that businesspeople instinctively describe their […] -
Mastering the Management System
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Marketing Performance—What Do You Expect?
Project management Magazine ArticleA good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I Special Report When trying to assess performance, there is no business function top executives worry about more than marketing. Most of them look at the marketers in their companies as something between vacuum-cleaner salespeople […] -
Olympic Host Cities Need Transparency, Not Knowledge Transfer
Transparency Digital ArticleFrom the moment I stepped off the bus at the rowing venue, I felt reassured that the London Olympic Games were operating like a well-oiled machine. There was an abundance of smiling volunteers wishing everyone a good morning, clear signage—bright pink—showing the way, barriers made less intimidating by the lively logo on them. At the […] -
How AI Will Transform Project Management
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What Sort of Checklist Should You Be Using?
Time management Digital ArticleLike zillions (or at least tens and tens of thousands) of other non-surgeons, I’ve been reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto. It’s a wonderfully entertaining and thought-provoking book. (If you want the short version, you can listen to HBR’s Katherine Bell interviewing Gawande here.) Gawande convincingly makes the case that medicine — in particular surgery […] -
Bring Agile to the Whole Organization
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How Project Managers Can Stay Relevant in Agile Organizations
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Five Critical Roles in Project Management
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How to Manage Scope Creep
Technology & Operations VideoRaymond Sheen, president of Product and Process Innovation, Inc, offers three tips for keeping even the most complicated projects on track.
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Waterloo Regional Police Services: Reassessing the CIMS Project
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Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development-defined as "the expansion of a person's... -
BPO, Incorporated
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Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
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The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part B)
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Telangana Graduates' MLC Elections 2021: Handling Known and Unknown Uncertainties
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Agile Development
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This tech note is designed to introduce general management students to the body of work associated with agile and its current state of practice. While... -
Andy Chew at Siemens Nixdorf: Change from the Middle
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SomPack: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them?
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Happy Family: Investing for the Future
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Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel
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The RECS Project (C)
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Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio-a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies-was... -
Boeing's Strategic Initiative: Raw Material Supply Chain Risk Mitigation
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Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance
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Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (B)
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The Failure of Westinghouse
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Susan Cassidy at Bertram Gilman International
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Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor
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Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc., in China: Transferring Knowledge (A) and (B) (Abridged)
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5 Strategies for Getting More Work Done in Less Time
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUse templates, checklists, and timeboxing. -
Waterloo Regional Police Services: Reassessing the CIMS Project
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details It had been four years since the chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Services (WRPS) met with the board to discuss critical next steps regarding vendor... -
Developing Yourself as a Leader: A Framework for Millennial High Potentials & Emerging Leaders
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Millennials are redefining what it means to develop future leaders. In business organizations, leadership development-defined as "the expansion of a person's... -
VW's Problem Is Bad Management, Not Rogue Engineers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe tone at the top let roguery take root. -
Way Faster than a Speeding Bullet
Innovation Magazine ArticleFemtosecond lasers emit pulses of light that last just a millionth of a billionth of a second. These lasers enable surgery so precise that a single mitochondrion can be removed without harming the rest of the cell, and machining so controlled that structures can be micromachined within a piece of glass. Eric Mazur, a professor […] -
4 Ways to Improve Specialty Health Care in the U.S.
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleThe current practice of “bundling” care makes it less accessible, affordable, effective, and pleasant. -
BPO, Incorporated
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Employee Benefit Outsourcing (EBO) unit of BPO, Inc. is experiencing rapid growth as a result of industry trends toward greater outsourcing of business... -
Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
35.00View Details The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it's only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve,... -
The Challenge of Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Case of Le Manoir, an Income-Sharing Intentional Community (Part B)
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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This
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