Moves the Needle

MARCH 1, 2023

By 2001, I was running Product Management at a different company. Agile and Human-Centered Design The Agile Manifesto of 2001 was a game-changer in product development. Also, while human-centered design certainly existed, the practices of “design thinking” reaching tech companies to any real degree was still a decade away.

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Management Agile Software LEAN 52

Moves the Needle

OCTOBER 12, 2018

You apply the 3 E’s of lean innovation , develop empathy, run rapid experiments, analyze evidence -- data + insights -- to find the right actions the business must do to illicit the behavior. Their website, circa March 31, 2001, Zappos sells shoes online and amazing customer service: "Free Shipping & No Sales Tax!

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How To Tools LEAN Marketing 76

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001. [6] SVPG Press, 2010. [4] 4] Cohn, Mike. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. [5] 5] Cockburn, Alistair. Agile Software Development. 6] Patton, Jeff; “It’s All In How You Slice It”, Better Software, January 2005: [link].

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Software Review Agile Software Design 107

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2001 Mike found himself on a stage receiving a finalist certificate for a prestigious innovation award. We are undergoing a significant transformation of our innovation capability, with investments in digital Innovation, Connect & develop, and Lean Innovation capability. Chasing Innovation.

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Conference Trends LEAN Innovation Programs 40

eZassi

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2001 Mike found himself on a stage receiving a finalist certificate for a prestigious innovation award. We are undergoing a significant transformation of our innovation capability, with investments in digital Innovation, Connect & develop, and Lean Innovation capability. Chasing Innovation.

Conference 40

Conference Trends Leadership LEAN 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Sutherland and other proponents of scrum were among them.

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Agile Software Review LEAN Software Developers 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Focusing on the majority of them (19,456) who earned their degrees since 1980, we find that graduates during recession years (1980-82, 1990-91, 2001, or 2008-09) are just as likely today to value their degrees highly as those graduating in other years. For these alumni, the retreat to value went through, not around, the classroom.

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LEAN Survey Marketing Leadership 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Despite all of the hype around alternatives — the gig economy, the sharing economy, holacracy, lean – bureaucracy has been growing, not shrinking. in 2001 to 16% in 2015. It would seem that managerial enthusiasm for all things “lean” has its limits. Unfortunately, it hasn’t turned out that way.

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LEAN Trends Collaboration Management 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. The firm's ELS (Enterprise Lean Sigma) team launched "ELS Nation", a community that lets any employee post topics or questions, reply, and share files. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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Collaboration LEAN Tools Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up , has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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LEAN Case Study Product Development Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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Report LEAN Marketing Course 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector.

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Disruption Competition Resources Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. The more the company leans into building a better society in a strategically focused way, the better the company performs. Perhaps you've heard the story. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year.

Company 16

Company Engagement LEAN Leadership 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

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Company Technical Review Software Review Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

Indeed, back in 2001, Pal’s became the first restaurant company of any kind to win the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award —an award that’s gone, over the years, to the likes of Cadillac, FedEx, and Ritz-Carlton. Meanwhile, every day, he identifies at least one subject he will teach to one person in the company.

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Training LEAN Tips Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Agile and Lean initially grew popular in the startup world, but soon were embraced by mainstream business leaders around the globe. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

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Agile Change Software Developers Software Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

As Michael Roberto, the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University, said in his 2001 HBR article " What You Don't Know About Making Decisions ", "all too often [decision-makers] rush to a conclusion or else dither endlessly and decide too late." What the Experts Say. People respond to the pressure of big decisions in different ways.

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How To Software Review Case Study Project 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

We have offered well over 100 MDC sessions since Jeff took the helm in 2001, and he has participated in all but one. Some of GE’s best-known initiatives — WorkOut; CAP; Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma; Leadership, Innovation, and Growth ; and, more recently, Simplification — took shape at Crotonville.

Leadership 8

Leadership LEAN Culture Course 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

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Disruption LEAN Technical Review Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. TodUdom/iStock.

Management 8

Management LEAN Comparison Marketing 8

hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

Even though the Mac business was picking up, it was only in 2001, with the release of the iPOD (now retired) disrupting the digital music market, did Apple start soaring. Lego overcame its near-demise situation when the then president, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, decided that innovation was the only way out in 2001. Source: [link].

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Innovation Disruption Video Underperforming Technical Team 40

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers. In 2001 it introduced the iPod + iTune combination, and followed the trick again with the iPhone and iPad. Its new products were usually met with howls of despair rather than joy.

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Software Review Technical Review Competition Roadmap 49

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

Chief among these are the Blue Ocean strategy, Business Model Generation and Lean Startup methodologies that deservedly attracted many followers. In 2001 it introduced the iPod + iTune combination, and followed the trick again with the iPhone and iPad. Its new products were usually met with howls of despair rather than joy.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Competition Roadmap 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Recent events suggest that Venezuela is leaning more toward the first downside scenario than toward the latter upside scenario. This means that even in an upside scenario, a return to growth is unlikely at least until 2020. So when will be the right time for companies to reallocate corporate resources to Venezuela?

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Marketing Resources LEAN Company 8