Processes & Infrastructure
mobi |eng | 2012-08-10 | Author:James P. Womack & Art Byrne [Womack, James P.]

* * * * * * Checklist for Creating Pull—Nonmanufacturing Companies For materials and supplies, follow the manufacturing checklist. Develop kanban cards for scheduling things like blood labs, MRI equipment, ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-08 | Author:Jared Harris & Michael Lenox [Harris, Jared]

Figure 8-1. Generic strategies. In general, there are two types of competitive advantage a firm can pursue: low cost or uniqueness. Using a low-cost strategy, a firm simply tries to ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:Taffy Williams

PUTTING CONCEPTS INTO ACTION How rigid or agile are you when it comes to these financial issues? To help you do a quick assessment of your flexibility in this area, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Jeffrey Gitomer [Gitomer, Jeffrey]

NOTE: These actions are NOT the fault of employees -- they're the fault of the person who trained them, and the person who decided the training content. ACTION: What can ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-03-16 | Author:Robert Solomon

Brevity is hard work. The key to achieving it lies not in the initial writing, but in rewriting, rewriting, and rewriting, to distill the brief to its essence. There should ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Ann Deaton & Holly Williams

38 EDGAR AND JACK ROLL EDGAR SAT DOWN, gazing at the screen of his smartphone. Jack waited, expecting Edgar to look up when he’d finished. Instead, Edgar continued to scroll ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Rose Fass [Fass, Rose]

This executive passionately laid out what UPS was really about: the strong identity, the commitment to quality, its dependability, its strong sense of accountability, and a lot of pride, right ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Porter Erisman

YAHOO! “Porter, there’s an urgent meeting downstairs that Jack needs you to attend,” Jack’s assistant told me as we entered the summer of 2005. “What’s it about?” I asked. “He’ll ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Stan Slap

You don’t have to do this up front for the entire scope of the strategy, which is good, since not much has changed about your ability to do that since ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Lex Sisney [Sisney, Lex]

Maturity (PSIu) In the prior lifecycle stages, the company has piloted the product for innovators and established thought leadership. Then it nailed the product for early adopters, drove repeat sales, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 1,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Jim Collins [Collins, Jim]

TECHNOLOGY AND THE HEDGEHOG CONCEPT Now, you might be thinking: “But the Internet frenzy is just a speculative bubble that burst. So what? Everybody knew that the bubble was unsustainable, ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Laloux, Frederic [Laloux, Frederic]

We have discussed the second type of practice in the previous chapter: spelling out a well-defined and thorough conflict resolution process. Such a process is needed in self-managing organizations for ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising [Manns, Mary Lynn]

Early Adopter Geoffrey Moore explains, “Visionaries are that rare breed of people who have the insight to match a [new idea] to a strategic opportunity, the temperament to translate that ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Chip Heath & Dan Heath [Heath, Chip & Heath, Dan]

CLINIC Our Intuition Is Flawed, but Who Wants to Believe That? THE SITUATION: People often trust their intuition, but our intuition is flawed by identifiable biases. Still, most people feel ...
( Category: Management & Leadership November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Marion Nestle [Nestle, Marion]

FIGURE 23. Industry groups distributed this poster to health food stores during the 1993 campaign to overturn the FDA’s restrictions on health claims for dietary supplements. Posters like this encourged ...
( Category: Regional & International November 29,2017 )