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1) The Leader Architect: The Right People in the Right Place Doing the Right Stuff at the Right Time
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Business books fall into two categories: theory and impractical protocols. Both provide either ideas without applications or applications without proven theoretical frames. They are like concept cars that no one expects to drive to work.
The Leader Architect provides the bridge to proven solutions based on sound theory. These solutions are being used successfully by expert leaders at some of the best companies in the world, without the elaborate...
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Are you struggling to develop relevant and effective key performance indicators (KPIs) for your organization? Introducing Streamline Success - the ultimate solution for harnessing the power of flowcharts to develop KPIs that align with your organizational goals. Using this flowchart methodology, you can create a systematic framework that aligns with your organization's goals and objectives. This will enable you to track and measure the metrics that...
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Why do companies exert high effort to reduce the costs of products that are production? Because they can! Because unnecessary product costs were not removed during product development.
C-O-S-T, short for Cost Optimization System and Technique, details how a company's product development teams, their supporting functions, and company leaders can optimize product costs before production starts and thereby maximize lifecycle profits.
Since product development...
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The must-read summary of James Murphy's book: "Flawless Execution: Use the Techniques and Systems of America's Fighter Pilots to Perform at Your Peak and Win the Battles of the Business World"
This complete summary of the ideas from James Murphy's book "Flawless Execution" describes flawless execution as "a trainable, learnable repeatable process — bred in military aviation — that improves execution." This summary shows that there is one thing...
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Don't risk the dire consequences of your work processes becoming obsolete-discover a powerful model for constant, ongoing, enterprise-wide process evolution and optimization.
If you have a great product, but don't have the operations in place to efficiently and effectively support it-production, manufacturing, sales, finance, human resources, etc.-you won't succeed. Product innovation is seen as flashier and so gets far more attention, but you...
6) Summary of How to Assess and Measure Business Innovation by Magnus Penker, Sten Jacobson and Peter J
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The members of the Innovation 360 Group consulting firm, Magnus Penker, Peter Junermark and Sten Jacobson, analyzed more than 1,000 companies in more than 60 countries to build an extensive database on innovation. They examine their respondents' insights on how — and why — innovation projects prosper or fail. They use charts, lists and illustrations to organize their discussion of the tools available to you for measuring and managing innovation....
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The must-read summary of Michael Corbett's book: "The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right".
This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Corbett's book "The Outsourcing Revolution" deals with a highly controversial topic. Outsourcing tends to get blamed whenever jobs move from one country to another. However, outsourcing is currently a $6 trillion global industry, and within the next decade will grow appreciably as...
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An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement has helped companies both large and small learn to connect everyone and everything . . . all the time. With rapidly evolving consumer needs and technology that is that is being updated quicker than ever before, businesses are recognizing how vitally essential it is adapt. And adapt quickly....
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The must-read summary of H. Bowen, K. Clark, C. Holloway and S. Wheelwright's book: "The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal through Successful Product and Process Development".
This complete summary of the ideas from H. Bowen, K. Clark, C. Holloway and S. Wheelwright's book "The Perpetual Enterprise Machine" shows how the development of new products, new manufacturing processes and new services are the lifeblood of any...
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