At one time or another, most organizations have faced cost inflation, reduced profitability, stress, and poor morale. This is true more than ever in today’s challenging business environment.....
Entrepreneurship, startups and company culture 101Ivan Bjelajac
The document provides an overview of starting a startup business. It defines what a startup is as a company designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups are important as they are the main creators of net job growth. While most startups fail due to challenges such as market or business model problems, the document outlines strategies to improve chances of success, including focusing on the product and business model, acquiring customers, running leanly, and using agile methodology.
Improve Innovation with this InfoGraphic.
The infographic is an easy visualization tool allowing you to see why innovation is important, how to improve innovation and results you can expect.
You will learn 4 ways to improve innovation:
Top Down
Bottom Up
Collaborate
External
Keeping the infographic handy will keep you focused as you improve innovation at your company.
No one said it would be easy. Avoiding business mistakes is impossible, and you are not alone in making them.
Take a look at some of the most common business mistakes.
Part Nine - Pros And Cons Of Business OwnershipVal Slastnikov
The document discusses the pros and cons of business ownership. It states that the pros of business ownership include unlimited business owner control, customer base, leverage, income streams, scalability, replicability, growth potential, and profitability. However, the cons are high start-up costs and carrying costs. While business ownership requires significant resources, it can provide maximum freedom and leverage through multiplying the efforts of multiple resources to create value.
Michael Wolfe outlines a "Startup Operating System" to help companies run effectively. The system focuses on cadence, planning, transparency, and three big ideas. Cadence establishes regular rhythms for meetings, reviews, and communications to keep the team synced. Planning involves setting goals and adjusting plans based on learning. Transparency means sharing all useful business information openly. The operating system aims to have a wildly talented team working hard on the right things through deliberate habits and practices.
As competition grows larger and stronger, entrepreneurs have a lot to stay on top of to keep their businesses afloat. Living in the age of information, the time-saving ideas that use to be so hard to find are now right at our fingertips. Using these tips, you can reach your goal without spending too much time, energy or money.
Entrepreneurship, startups and company culture 101Ivan Bjelajac
The document provides an overview of starting a startup business. It defines what a startup is as a company designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Startups are important as they are the main creators of net job growth. While most startups fail due to challenges such as market or business model problems, the document outlines strategies to improve chances of success, including focusing on the product and business model, acquiring customers, running leanly, and using agile methodology.
Improve Innovation with this InfoGraphic.
The infographic is an easy visualization tool allowing you to see why innovation is important, how to improve innovation and results you can expect.
You will learn 4 ways to improve innovation:
Top Down
Bottom Up
Collaborate
External
Keeping the infographic handy will keep you focused as you improve innovation at your company.
No one said it would be easy. Avoiding business mistakes is impossible, and you are not alone in making them.
Take a look at some of the most common business mistakes.
Part Nine - Pros And Cons Of Business OwnershipVal Slastnikov
The document discusses the pros and cons of business ownership. It states that the pros of business ownership include unlimited business owner control, customer base, leverage, income streams, scalability, replicability, growth potential, and profitability. However, the cons are high start-up costs and carrying costs. While business ownership requires significant resources, it can provide maximum freedom and leverage through multiplying the efforts of multiple resources to create value.
Michael Wolfe outlines a "Startup Operating System" to help companies run effectively. The system focuses on cadence, planning, transparency, and three big ideas. Cadence establishes regular rhythms for meetings, reviews, and communications to keep the team synced. Planning involves setting goals and adjusting plans based on learning. Transparency means sharing all useful business information openly. The operating system aims to have a wildly talented team working hard on the right things through deliberate habits and practices.
As competition grows larger and stronger, entrepreneurs have a lot to stay on top of to keep their businesses afloat. Living in the age of information, the time-saving ideas that use to be so hard to find are now right at our fingertips. Using these tips, you can reach your goal without spending too much time, energy or money.
This document discusses strategies for project management and business execution. It recommends focusing resources on the most important projects and determining what level of quality is adequate to meet deadlines. It also stresses the importance of establishing clear metrics and incentives, creating easy-to-understand progress reports, developing a culture of accountability, and asking key questions to define success.
The document discusses different exit strategies for business owners, including transferring the business to family or selling it. It provides statistics on the most common exit strategies business owners are considering and their typical success rates. The document also identifies some of the key roadblocks that can derail plans to transfer a business to family or sell it. It provides tips for overcoming these challenges, such as preparing early, communicating effectively, and running the business for growth and marketability to maximize its value upon exit.
This is a very interesting topic to discover the basic framework Google tells any business venture should follow. It is really descriptive with bright and clear slides. References have also been taken from the book's slide itself.
Initiatives are drivers of growth for a company and can include new ideas or improvements to the core business. It is difficult to get initiatives going because the core business takes up resources, commitment is lacking, and there is no system for managing them. To get initiatives started, companies should create an entrepreneurial business development function, engage the whole workforce through social media techniques, form a dedicated team, and launch a new program quickly by removing barriers. The document then provides an example of a management system called Mass Ingenuity that effectively focuses an organization on initiatives.
How to Break Through No Man's Land - The Stage Where Growing Companies Get Stucknewportboardgroup
Catherine Cates presented on how growing companies get stuck in "No Man's Land" between being a small startup and large established business. In this stage, companies often see stalled growth and profits. She outlined four key areas ("M's") to focus on: 1) refining the marketing strategy and value proposition; 2) creating an economic model that can scale profitably; 3) raising capital to finance growth; and 4) professionalizing management while maintaining culture. Tools like the Inc. Navigator can help assess alignment and priorities across the leadership team. Breaking through No Man's Land requires balancing entrepreneurial vision with business maturity.
The document discusses business succession planning and outlines common obstacles that prevent many businesses from continuing after the departure of the current owner. It notes that today only 15% of small businesses survive after the owner leaves, down from 30% twenty years ago, primarily due to a lack of succession planning. The document then provides steps for business owners to develop an effective succession plan, including defining a vision, ensuring survival if tragedy strikes, developing employees, eliminating owner dependency, and having essential conversations to identify a potential internal or external buyer to transition ownership. It emphasizes that every business will be sold, either planned or unplanned, and owners should choose their exit option and start succession planning.
According to the statistics provided:
1. 50% of new businesses fail within five years, but those that survive past two years are less likely to fail each subsequent year as they build a customer base and cash reserves.
2. Entrepreneurs who have previously failed at a business venture have a 20% chance of success with their next venture, higher than the 18% chance for first-time entrepreneurs, since failure teaches valuable lessons.
3. 95% of entrepreneurs have at least a bachelor's degree, though some famous entrepreneurs dropped out of college to start successful companies.
FP&A: Innovations in Financial Analytics to Support Organic Growth and Busine...James Myers
Despite recent advances in cloud computing and related technologies, many organizations are still far from where they want and need to be in leveraging data to drive performance improvements. Companies still often apply intuition, rather than hard data, when making strategic and operational decisions. Even when companies define performance metrics, many define vanity as opposed to actionable metrics. Discover new ways to leverage your data to drive shareholder value. In this webinar, you will see how companies are utilizing financial analytics to drive a competitive advantage.
ScaleUP USA Digital Global Business Growth Accelerator ☀ Nitin Pradhan
We conceptualized the ScaleUP USA’s Digital Business Accelerator Program in mid-2016. It took us over a year to vision, strategize, plan, and launch the digital platform. We finally launched the first program for this accelerator concept in August 2017. Already it has over 1,000 participants and many business partners including the media giant NBC. We believe this is a model for future global entrepreneurship and business growth. We focus on two aspects (a) Professional career growth of individual men, women, and students and (b) Business creation, growth, and acceleration. We also welcome partnerships with global governments, non-profits, and businesses.
Our programs:
> How to Start a Federal Contracting Business?
> Federal Business Acceleration Program
> Winning Proposal Writing Training Program
> Learn How to Sell to the Government!
> Learning Academy Trusted Advisor Program with NBC
Visit: https://www.scaleupusa.xyz/ to learn more!
Increase the Value of your Personal Injury Law Firm with FITGreg Chambers
Get the most value from your largest asset – your law firm – using the principles of Focus, Individual Strengths, and Technology. (The power of predictable law firm lead generation.) http://www.chamberspivot.com/teleseminar-increasing-the-value-of-your-law-firm/
SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for Twenty Yearssaastr
This document discusses how measuring customer happiness through Net Promoter Score (NPS) can drive business growth. It notes that NPS is the best leading indicator to predict growth and that companies with higher NPS outgrow competitors twice as fast. It emphasizes that survey design is key to gathering actionable insights and looking for patterns in customer feedback. Lastly, it states that achieving great success with NPS requires extraordinary effort and that automation can help power customer experience programs.
This document provides an overview of launching a venture, including steps to take such as calculating a budget, finding a consistent venture, and next steps. It discusses determining costs and profit goals, reasons for pursuing a consistent venture like sustainability and cash flow. The document ends by emphasizing the need to take action to launch the venture.
Workable Presentation at TechStartupJobs Fair London 2014TechMeetups
Workable helps companies improve the quality and efficiency of their hiring by simplifying the most time-consuming task: browsing, screening and managing candidates. Workable is also sponsor of ‘TechStartupJobs Fair London 2014’.
This document provides 15 ideas for successfully navigating the modern workplace. It discusses topics such as finding happiness at work, improving brain productivity, achieving gender equality, recognizing toxic work environments, the importance of sleep, using video-conferencing, and redefining retirement. Each topic provides a brief overview and encourages the reader to learn more in the associated article. The overarching message is that success today requires not just completing one's job but skillfully navigating various workplace issues and trends.
Michal Wroczyński – Fido Intelligence – Czym się różni palma od sosny, czyli subiektywne spojrzenie na akcelerację start-upów w Stanach Zjednoczonych i w Polsce
1) After reviewing 3000 business plans and startups from 2004-2010, only 2-3 achieved valuations over $1 billion, around 15 achieved over $100 million, and about 25% showed some growth.
2) Successful startups are built around strong teams that have often been working together for 3-5 years, with values and teamwork being more important than business plans. Incubation of ideas takes years.
3) A good elevator pitch explains the customer, problem, and solution in 30 seconds, demonstrating why you are better than competitors. Most great companies copy existing models or solve known problems in new ways.
Faster, Better, Consolidated Progress: How to Capture Employee Wisdom through...Crowdsourcing Week
How do you get the best information out of crowds and prevent distortions and pitfalls such as group-think and herding? Synthetron CEO Joanne Celens analyzes how to source the best information out of crowds while preventing distortions and pitfalls such as group-think and herding. She elaborates on the importance of identifying and addressing the right crowd by asking the right questions. During her presentation, we are encouraged to think critically about the crowds we are reaching, recruiting, engaging or rewarding.
By Joanne Celens, Synthetron. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016. Learn more and join the next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP technology for data mining. It defines what a data warehouse is, including that it is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data to support management decision making. It also discusses data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas, which organize data into fact and dimension tables. Finally, it discusses OLAP and multidimensional data modeling using data cubes to enable complex analyses of data in multiple dimensions.
El teatro en inglés será el foco de la 20a Semana Cultural del CEIP L'Amisat. Este evento anual celebra la cultura y el aprendizaje a través de diferentes actividades. El teatro en inglés permitirá a los estudiantes practicar y mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas de una manera entretenida.
This document discusses strategies for project management and business execution. It recommends focusing resources on the most important projects and determining what level of quality is adequate to meet deadlines. It also stresses the importance of establishing clear metrics and incentives, creating easy-to-understand progress reports, developing a culture of accountability, and asking key questions to define success.
The document discusses different exit strategies for business owners, including transferring the business to family or selling it. It provides statistics on the most common exit strategies business owners are considering and their typical success rates. The document also identifies some of the key roadblocks that can derail plans to transfer a business to family or sell it. It provides tips for overcoming these challenges, such as preparing early, communicating effectively, and running the business for growth and marketability to maximize its value upon exit.
This is a very interesting topic to discover the basic framework Google tells any business venture should follow. It is really descriptive with bright and clear slides. References have also been taken from the book's slide itself.
Initiatives are drivers of growth for a company and can include new ideas or improvements to the core business. It is difficult to get initiatives going because the core business takes up resources, commitment is lacking, and there is no system for managing them. To get initiatives started, companies should create an entrepreneurial business development function, engage the whole workforce through social media techniques, form a dedicated team, and launch a new program quickly by removing barriers. The document then provides an example of a management system called Mass Ingenuity that effectively focuses an organization on initiatives.
How to Break Through No Man's Land - The Stage Where Growing Companies Get Stucknewportboardgroup
Catherine Cates presented on how growing companies get stuck in "No Man's Land" between being a small startup and large established business. In this stage, companies often see stalled growth and profits. She outlined four key areas ("M's") to focus on: 1) refining the marketing strategy and value proposition; 2) creating an economic model that can scale profitably; 3) raising capital to finance growth; and 4) professionalizing management while maintaining culture. Tools like the Inc. Navigator can help assess alignment and priorities across the leadership team. Breaking through No Man's Land requires balancing entrepreneurial vision with business maturity.
The document discusses business succession planning and outlines common obstacles that prevent many businesses from continuing after the departure of the current owner. It notes that today only 15% of small businesses survive after the owner leaves, down from 30% twenty years ago, primarily due to a lack of succession planning. The document then provides steps for business owners to develop an effective succession plan, including defining a vision, ensuring survival if tragedy strikes, developing employees, eliminating owner dependency, and having essential conversations to identify a potential internal or external buyer to transition ownership. It emphasizes that every business will be sold, either planned or unplanned, and owners should choose their exit option and start succession planning.
According to the statistics provided:
1. 50% of new businesses fail within five years, but those that survive past two years are less likely to fail each subsequent year as they build a customer base and cash reserves.
2. Entrepreneurs who have previously failed at a business venture have a 20% chance of success with their next venture, higher than the 18% chance for first-time entrepreneurs, since failure teaches valuable lessons.
3. 95% of entrepreneurs have at least a bachelor's degree, though some famous entrepreneurs dropped out of college to start successful companies.
FP&A: Innovations in Financial Analytics to Support Organic Growth and Busine...James Myers
Despite recent advances in cloud computing and related technologies, many organizations are still far from where they want and need to be in leveraging data to drive performance improvements. Companies still often apply intuition, rather than hard data, when making strategic and operational decisions. Even when companies define performance metrics, many define vanity as opposed to actionable metrics. Discover new ways to leverage your data to drive shareholder value. In this webinar, you will see how companies are utilizing financial analytics to drive a competitive advantage.
ScaleUP USA Digital Global Business Growth Accelerator ☀ Nitin Pradhan
We conceptualized the ScaleUP USA’s Digital Business Accelerator Program in mid-2016. It took us over a year to vision, strategize, plan, and launch the digital platform. We finally launched the first program for this accelerator concept in August 2017. Already it has over 1,000 participants and many business partners including the media giant NBC. We believe this is a model for future global entrepreneurship and business growth. We focus on two aspects (a) Professional career growth of individual men, women, and students and (b) Business creation, growth, and acceleration. We also welcome partnerships with global governments, non-profits, and businesses.
Our programs:
> How to Start a Federal Contracting Business?
> Federal Business Acceleration Program
> Winning Proposal Writing Training Program
> Learn How to Sell to the Government!
> Learning Academy Trusted Advisor Program with NBC
Visit: https://www.scaleupusa.xyz/ to learn more!
Increase the Value of your Personal Injury Law Firm with FITGreg Chambers
Get the most value from your largest asset – your law firm – using the principles of Focus, Individual Strengths, and Technology. (The power of predictable law firm lead generation.) http://www.chamberspivot.com/teleseminar-increasing-the-value-of-your-law-firm/
SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for Twenty Yearssaastr
This document discusses how measuring customer happiness through Net Promoter Score (NPS) can drive business growth. It notes that NPS is the best leading indicator to predict growth and that companies with higher NPS outgrow competitors twice as fast. It emphasizes that survey design is key to gathering actionable insights and looking for patterns in customer feedback. Lastly, it states that achieving great success with NPS requires extraordinary effort and that automation can help power customer experience programs.
This document provides an overview of launching a venture, including steps to take such as calculating a budget, finding a consistent venture, and next steps. It discusses determining costs and profit goals, reasons for pursuing a consistent venture like sustainability and cash flow. The document ends by emphasizing the need to take action to launch the venture.
Workable Presentation at TechStartupJobs Fair London 2014TechMeetups
Workable helps companies improve the quality and efficiency of their hiring by simplifying the most time-consuming task: browsing, screening and managing candidates. Workable is also sponsor of ‘TechStartupJobs Fair London 2014’.
This document provides 15 ideas for successfully navigating the modern workplace. It discusses topics such as finding happiness at work, improving brain productivity, achieving gender equality, recognizing toxic work environments, the importance of sleep, using video-conferencing, and redefining retirement. Each topic provides a brief overview and encourages the reader to learn more in the associated article. The overarching message is that success today requires not just completing one's job but skillfully navigating various workplace issues and trends.
Michal Wroczyński – Fido Intelligence – Czym się różni palma od sosny, czyli subiektywne spojrzenie na akcelerację start-upów w Stanach Zjednoczonych i w Polsce
1) After reviewing 3000 business plans and startups from 2004-2010, only 2-3 achieved valuations over $1 billion, around 15 achieved over $100 million, and about 25% showed some growth.
2) Successful startups are built around strong teams that have often been working together for 3-5 years, with values and teamwork being more important than business plans. Incubation of ideas takes years.
3) A good elevator pitch explains the customer, problem, and solution in 30 seconds, demonstrating why you are better than competitors. Most great companies copy existing models or solve known problems in new ways.
Faster, Better, Consolidated Progress: How to Capture Employee Wisdom through...Crowdsourcing Week
How do you get the best information out of crowds and prevent distortions and pitfalls such as group-think and herding? Synthetron CEO Joanne Celens analyzes how to source the best information out of crowds while preventing distortions and pitfalls such as group-think and herding. She elaborates on the importance of identifying and addressing the right crowd by asking the right questions. During her presentation, we are encouraged to think critically about the crowds we are reaching, recruiting, engaging or rewarding.
By Joanne Celens, Synthetron. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016. Learn more and join the next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
This document discusses data warehousing and OLAP technology for data mining. It defines what a data warehouse is, including that it is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and non-volatile collection of data to support management decision making. It also discusses data warehouse architectures like star schemas and snowflake schemas, which organize data into fact and dimension tables. Finally, it discusses OLAP and multidimensional data modeling using data cubes to enable complex analyses of data in multiple dimensions.
El teatro en inglés será el foco de la 20a Semana Cultural del CEIP L'Amisat. Este evento anual celebra la cultura y el aprendizaje a través de diferentes actividades. El teatro en inglés permitirá a los estudiantes practicar y mejorar sus habilidades lingüísticas de una manera entretenida.
The document is an application for a leadership class called Flight Crew at Sperreng Middle School. It requires students to answer questions about why they want to join, their availability to help with after-school and lunch events, their ability to complete 10 hours of community service, and their comfort speaking in front of others. It also requires a teacher recommendation evaluating the student's character traits and leadership potential. If accepted, students will be notified over the summer.
This document provides an introduction to Agile Scrum project management methodology and advocates for fully transforming JDE enterprise portfolio implementations from the traditional Waterfall methodology to Agile Scrum. It begins by sharing the author's experience with Agile Scrum and describes some of its key benefits over Waterfall. The core of Agile Scrum is described, including sprint cycles, daily stand-up meetings, and artifacts like product backlogs and sprint backlogs. Case examples are provided and Scrum roles are outlined. The document argues that Agile Scrum is better suited than Waterfall for JDE implementations and that only a full transformation, not partial adoption, will realize its benefits.
La población indígena Bribri habita en la reserva indígena de Salitre en Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Practican la agricultura y cría de animales siguiendo tradiciones culturales, pero enfrentan problemas por la invasión de terrenos por parte de finqueros no indígenas. A pesar de que la ley protege los territorios indígenas, el gobierno no ha garantizado plenamente los derechos de los Bribri de Salitre.
5 solutions that will save you from initiative overloadTushar Vakil
The article discusses 5 solutions to overcome initiative overload: 1) Focus on initiatives that increase business value by asking "where is the value?" 2) Quantify and measure initiatives that contribute to business value, not just what is easy to measure. 3) Use a linked-template methodology where the senior team adopts a company-wide view to build an integrated implementation plan. 4) Engage the entire team so everyone understands how to contribute and receive help. 5) Realistically assess your workload to focus only on important and essential tasks by using an Outstanding Productivity Module training program.
1) The document discusses change initiatives and why many fail, noting that 70% fail according to some sources.
2) It advocates for an incremental, evolutionary approach to change exemplified by Lean Kanban principles like starting with the current process and pursuing small, collaborative improvements over time.
3) The key messages are that change is about people, not processes; it is a never-ending journey without a clear destination; and an approach like Kanban focuses on gradual transformation through experimentation and feedback rather than disruptive, "big bang" change.
In November 2013, the Government published “Hard Truths”, its response to the Public Inquiry into the
failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. This establishes beyond any lingering doubt the importance of the fundamental principles of quality and safety of care.
At the same time, the NHS is having to manage the significant pressures on precious but reducing resources – staff time as well as funding. Anything that diverts resources from direct patient care must be justified.
It is in this context that we have seen renewed interest in the need to reduce unnecessary burden and bureaucracy which gets in the way of direct patient care, starting initially on the burden generated by national data collections.
This document provides tips for reducing bureaucracy in large corporations. It discusses how bureaucracy directly impacts costs, customer experience, and profitability. While traditional cost-cutting approaches may reduce costs, they do not necessarily reduce bureaucracy or improve customer experience. The document recommends using both tactical and strategic approaches to reducing bureaucracy. Tactically, companies should focus on process initiatives to identify decision points that increase complexity. Strategically, companies should focus on outcomes like risk management and customer satisfaction rather than just problems. The two top tips for reducing bureaucracy are: 1) Make the approach a process initiative and 2) Focus on outcomes, not just problems.
Bureaucracy and formal organizations chapt 7 ssMrAguiar
The document discusses rationalization of society and the rise of formal organizations and bureaucracies. It describes how Karl Marx and Max Weber viewed the shift from traditional ways of thinking to an emphasis on efficiency. Formal organizations are designed to achieve objectives through a bureaucratic structure with hierarchies, rules, and impersonality. However, bureaucracies can lead to issues like alienation and inefficiency. Attempts have been made to humanize corporate culture and address diversity, but conflicts remain. New technologies also allow greater control and monitoring of workers.
Este documento describe el cambio del marketing de SEO al inbound marketing. Explica que el SEO antiguo se ha transformado de una disciplina aislada a un enfoque centrado en el consumidor que utiliza contenido valioso para atraer y convertir clientes potenciales a lo largo de su viaje de compra. También proporciona consejos sobre cómo hacer inbound marketing efectivo, como investigar las necesidades de los clientes ideales, crear perfiles de compradores, optimizar los activos digitales y medir los resultados para mejorar continuamente.
Innovation, Lean, Agile. Myths and MisconceptionGaetano Mazzanti
This document discusses myths and misconceptions around innovation, Lean, and Agile. It argues that while Lean and Agile principles can help foster innovation, they are often misunderstood and applied in rigid, dogmatic ways that can actually hinder innovation. True innovation emerges from an environment that accepts failure, values learning over outputs, and integrates research into workflows rather than separating it. Process improvement methods should focus on enabling conditions for innovation to emerge rather than trying to dictate or cause innovation directly.
Eliminating non value adding activitiesMohit Singla
The document discusses how organizations can improve continuously by eliminating waste and non-value adding activities, noting that typical organizations spend only 10% of their time on improvement activities while spending 20% of time on ineffective activities and 10% each on negative activities and positive activities. It provides examples of sources of unproductive time like waiting, transportation, and communication issues, and encourages organizations to eliminate ineffective and negative activities to free up 30% of time for improvement initiatives.
Lessons on Leading Change from an American Icon WebinarGavin McMahon
Bryce G. Hoffman, author of the best-selling book “American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company,” lead a free webinar on three key lessons from the Ford turnaround that you can use to change your company’s culture, drive accountability and foster teamwork. Under Mulally’s leadership, the famed automaker went from the brink of bankruptcy to record profits in just two years. By listening in, learn how your organization can use the same principles to meet its goals.
- The Importance of Culture
- How to Use Message Discipline
- The Business Progress Review -
A Powerful Tool for Leading Change
Industrializing innovative aluminum solutions for the aerospace industry - Si...Constellium
Civil Aviation Manufacturing Conference - Charlotte - May 9, 2012
Presentation of Simon Laddychuk, Director of Technology Constellium. Main topics:
- Constellium Global Aerospace division, a world-class supplier of aluminum solutions for the aerospace industry
- Changing times & new challenges in the aerospace industry
- Mastering innovative aluminum solutions to tackle the new challenges of the aerospace industry: AIRWARE™ case study
Business and sustainability performance report 2014Constellium
- Constellium is a global leader in aluminum solutions dedicated primarily to the aerospace, automotive, and packaging markets. It operates through three business units: Aerospace and Transportation, Packaging and Automotive Rolled Products, and Automotive Structures and Industry.
- In 2014, Constellium made several investments and acquisitions to boost production capabilities and expand into new markets. This included the acquisition of Wise Metals and a planned $750 million investment in its Muscle Shoals, AL plant.
- The CEO aims to make Constellium the most profitable and fastest growing company in its industry by achieving leadership positions in its target markets and enhancing the value it provides to customers. Recent moves position the
The document discusses ways to improve the success of ideation events through a formalized ideation process. Some key points:
1. A formal ideation process with defined roles, stages, and thresholds can help ensure ideas are generated and implemented. It should align with the organization's innovation process.
2. Effective project management is needed to derive value from good ideas by commercializing them through task assignment, progress tracking, and communication.
3. Rewards and recognition, as well as strong leadership support and commitment, can drive employee engagement in ideation. Innovation time-offs for employees can also foster creativity.
Incorporating workplace development eLearning courses into your business is a great way to get the knowledge you need to successfully market and improve the productivity of your company. Get the knowledge and training your organisation needs to thrive for success. With these workplace development courses, they may just provide you with some extra valuable nuggets of information that can contribute towards your company achieving more success in 2021 and beyond.
If you are looking for an inexpensive way to train your staff or brush up on skills, whether you have 1 or 250+ employees then look no further.
The document discusses the importance of an effective operating model for product organizations to successfully execute strategies. It identifies four key factors of an operating model: product mindset, organizational design, development model, and decision making structure. Product mindset focuses on understanding customer needs rather than requests. Organizational design calls for a product management team separate from engineering and sales. The development model addresses balancing in-house versus outsourced work. Decision making aims to minimize risk through lean methodology and experimentation.
The document summarizes a CEO roundtable meeting focused on helping business owners improve their companies through peer consulting, coaching, and education. Key points discussed include the benefits of CEO peer groups, expectations and guidelines for the meeting, best business practices, challenges business owners face, and common "fatal errors" that limit business growth. Business owners shared details about their companies and discussed strategies for improving operations, leadership, sales, and transitioning from hands-on work to more strategic roles.
Talks about partial successes with Agile implementations. We have become iterative for sure and there is a definite sense of cadence. But concept to cash lead times are still quite high. A sense of dogma has crept in the rituals, they happen, but there is little soul.Team members are still quite stressed out; We have avoided the famous waterfall death march for sure but it is still a very tiring and painful long march. Organisations doesn't feel that they have reaped all the benefits which were promised. There is just a handful of companies who seem to be living the values and are really nimble in the market place. What went wrong?
Essential Guide to Employee Onboarding SuccessAndrewCrebar
The Essential Guide to Employee Onboarding Success is for HR, People leaders and anyone looking to take their employee success to the next level.
It is a quick but detailed read on how you can use Employee Onboarding to Amplify your Employee Experience.
You'll learn:
1. What is 'EX' Management?
2. Why invest in 'EX'?
3. Why Onboarding is foundation of 'EX'?
4. What to consider in buying vs building a solution?
5. How to evaluate onboarding solutions?
Humans can often be complicated, thorny and messy - but those qualities make the magic happen.
By creating the right process and frameworks for getting your people confident, happy and productive - you can help build and support long-term employee success.
Mastering the Art of Executive Engagement (Bloomberg Businessweek Article)//J...Motiv Strategies
The brainstorming session may beget large quantities of ideas, but the executive workshop can help create something far more valuable: focused energy to explore new growth platforms from corporate leaders.
[Free Guide] Keys to Successful Project Management and Growth for Agencies Mohamed Mahdy
This document discusses challenges that professional services agencies face in scaling their businesses, including commoditization of services, competition for talent, and difficulties generating new business. It emphasizes the importance of project management and time tracking for agencies to understand employee productivity, project profitability, and make informed hiring decisions. The document promotes Vorex's online project management platform as a solution to provide agencies visibility into these key business metrics and help manage complexity as they grow.
Raising Capital for Tech Startups - 5 Keys to Unlocking the Deal You Want. L...Patrick Doherty
This document provides an overview of important considerations for startups raising capital. It discusses mentally preparing for the fundraising process, which takes significantly more time and resources than anticipated. Founders are advised to research all funding options, prepare their team to operate without full involvement during fundraising, and ensure a good cultural fit with potential investors as their choice will impact the business long-term. The document outlines 5 keys to securing funding: knowing important metrics, creating financial projections, providing required documents, telling a compelling story, and highlighting the company's strengths.
Training employees and managers in business acumen, which means understanding how a company makes money and their role in impacting financial results, is important for business alignment and success. Companies like Southwest Airlines have developed a culture of business acumen where employees understand financial statements and how their decisions impact profitability. Developing business acumen through simulations and learning programs helps employees ask better questions to improve processes and strategies. It gives managers a company-wide perspective beyond their department and helps employees think like owners in contributing to financial goals.
Do Accelerators And Incubators Serve Themselves Better Than Startups?Faisal Hoque
There are now more support resources for startups than ever. Trouble is, most oversell and under-deliver.
There are literally thousands of startup accelerators, incubators, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, government-funded small business associations, university programs, and more.
So far, many are delivering too great a share of the wins only to themselves, leaving a long road behind them littered with failed startups and sterling intentions.
More at - http://shadoka.com/do-accelerators-and-incubators-serve-themselves-better-than-startups/.
The document discusses the hidden financial risks to businesses posed by poor employee engagement and high staff turnover. It notes that while businesses often focus on quickly replacing departing employees, the real damage comes from "disengaged remainers" - unhappy employees who stay but undermine the business. The document advocates that businesses must accurately measure engagement, understand the full costs of attrition including lost productivity and knowledge, and make improving engagement a top priority in order to boost profitability, customer satisfaction, and reduce absenteeism and turnover. It claims that most organizations fail to properly account for the financial impacts of disengagement and attrition, which can amount to millions of pounds annually."
Company culture is a driving force for innovation. An innovative culture challenges employees to take risks within a safe environment, fosters continual learning and independent thinking, and allows employees' creativity and individuality to shine. To cultivate innovation, leaders must define values, circulate a company mission, and create a climate that promotes engagement, enthusiasm, and trust so employees are not afraid to fail. Leaders should also invest in "innovation champions" who can carry the company in new directions. While innovation requires calculated risks, companies should thoroughly research ideas and have structures in place to learn from failures. An innovative culture leads to external recognition and personal responsibility that drives long-term company success.
The document discusses how implementing lean management processes can help businesses reduce costs and improve productivity during difficult economic times. It describes how examining business processes to identify and eliminate waste, such as excess inventory, bottlenecks, and defects, can dramatically improve efficiency. The concepts of lean originated from the Toyota Production System and focus on intelligently working to add value and eliminate waste. The document argues that applying lean methodology through tools like a SIPOC analysis and value stream mapping can help companies properly identify process improvement opportunities. This can result in lower costs, better information and decision making, and a more cost-effective organization even after an economic recovery.
The document discusses 5 statements on innovation in the legal field during the current crisis:
1. Organizations lacking innovation capabilities pre-crisis still lack them and should focus on improving operations, not undefined "innovation."
2. Motivation is now to stabilize and reduce costs, not innovate. Improvements that create cost savings and performance gains can lead to innovation.
3. "Innovation" is not an activity or role but operational challenges that remove waste and friction, potentially enabling true innovation.
4. Legal has historically neglected user experience, but focusing on UX improves gains. Integrating innovations into operations is key.
5. Embracing design and entrepreneurship frames problems
This document discusses the importance of effectively communicating innovation ideas, especially "everyday innovation" ideas generated by employees. It argues that many innovative ideas fail because they are poorly communicated, not because they lack merit. It recommends that organizations develop a communication framework to help employees of all levels clearly present their innovative ideas. This can help level the playing field so the best ideas, regardless of who proposes them, have an opportunity to be heard and adopted based on their own merits. Developing employees' communication skills and ensuring a process for sharing ideas can significantly benefit an organization by capturing the potential of innovation from all levels.
Canny Bites Book 4 - successfully scale up or exit your business - A BLUEPR...The Pathway Group
Canny Bites books by Safaraz Ali
In the 4th Canny Bites book: successfully scale up or exit your business, Safaraz shares with you a blueprint for sytemising, productising and scaling your business and helping you go past that "next level".
We introduce Clarity and Accelerator Programme under the name of "Scaleezee" to successfully scale up or exit your business
The document discusses issues with traditional annual budgeting processes and proposes alternatives like rolling budgets and beyond budgeting principles. It notes that annual budgets can hinder innovation by locking organizations into plans made over a year in advance. Rolling budgets and emergent budgeting allow for more flexibility and adaptation to new information. The document advocates giving teams freedom and resources to act based on clear values and goals, rather than micromanaging them. It also emphasizes the importance of transparency around finances and focusing on customer outcomes over meeting fixed targets.
7 ways to get more value from your precious customer insightMartin Wright
How often have you seen expensive research gathering dust; wasted and ignore? Insights capable of helping a company become fitter, more popular and richer crowded out by today’s urgent demands?
In this multi-channel, fast moving and competitive world understanding customers better has never been more important.
Here are seven things we do that help companies fully exploit the value locked in this rich resource. Some are simple, others require effort; all provide great value for money.
What is the single most important driver of performance excellenceTushar Vakil
Most training programs are not effective in changing on job behavior of the participants. We have been helping our clients through our unique methodology to conduct training programs that give significant and measurable outcomes. We offer 50+ trainings and have panel of carefully selected LOCAL affiliate trainers to suit your training requirements.
Read more at http://www.outstandingproductivity.com/what-is-the-single-most-important-driver-of-performance-excellence/
Part 2 – are your employees ready to quitTushar Vakil
Attrition rates in India and worldwide have been rising steadily for last few years. According to a 2013 study by Hay Group – one in four employees in organized sector in
India was likely to switch jobs. Expected employee turnover ratio of 26.9% in India, was the highest attrition rate in the world. Worldwide, average employee turnover rate was predicted at 21.3% in 2013 and expected to rise to 23.4% over next five years. Employee turnover is very
costly for companies and reducing attrition rate can significantly improve not only the morale and performance, but also the bottom line. Can we recognize early warning signs of employee disengagement? Can something be done to reduce this high attrition rate?
Fall in love again – with your to do list!Tushar Vakil
This document discusses improving productivity with to-do lists. It notes that most to-do lists are not fully completed each day, with tasks getting carried over to future days. This can hurt self-esteem and make lists feel like evidence of unfinished work. However, the document recommends not abandoning lists, but instead separating tasks into three categories: must-do tasks for the day (limited to 6-10 items), could-do tasks if time allows, and some-day/maybe tasks. This breakdown makes lists more manageable.
Leadership Intervention Client PresentationTushar Vakil
The document promotes a leadership training program called "Everyday Leadership" that teaches identifiable leadership practices. It claims leadership is not limited to certain people and can be learned. The program identifies leadership behaviors through research and teaches them over several sessions, applying the practices to real work projects. It promises to develop more leaders within organizations to boost performance, culture, retention and adaptability to change.
Are your gadgets making you behave like pavlov’s dog ?Tushar Vakil
Ivan Pavlov accidentally discovered classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. He found that dogs could associate a neutral stimulus like a bell with food and learn to salivate at just the sound of the bell alone. Similarly, many people have become addicted to their gadgets and smartphones, constantly checking for updates and notifications. This constant stimulation from devices means people prefer virtual interactions and games over real-life activities. Both Pavlov's dogs and people demonstrate conditioned responses and addictions to stimuli associated with rewards like food or social updates. Outcome Productivity Module (OPM) training can help reduce interruptions and improve focus to consistently achieve goals and priorities.
The High Cost of Interruptions at WorkTushar Vakil
Modern technology enables constant connectivity and interruptions which research shows reduces productivity. The average office worker only has 11 minutes between interruptions and it takes 25 minutes to refocus on the original task. While half of interruptions are from external sources like notifications, the other half are self-inflicted as our brains seek constant stimulation. To improve focus and productivity, we must design our work environment and habits to limit distractions and exercise control over technology use.
4 questions to ask before implementing your in house leadership development p...Tushar Vakil
The document discusses leadership development programs and outlines four questions organizations should ask before implementing an in-house leadership program. It then provides details on how to design a leadership development system by identifying future leadership requirements, assessing current capabilities, and building tools and processes to develop necessary leadership capabilities. The document also describes leadership development services from Outstanding Productivity that include customized training programs, follow-up sessions, calls, and profiling to help clients develop their leadership pipeline and succession planning.
You may be very busy at work, but are you productiveTushar Vakil
The document discusses the concept of productivity and defines it as doing the right tasks to achieve goals rather than just keeping busy or getting everything done. It states that effectiveness, or doing the right tasks, is more important than efficiency alone. A hypothetical example is given of cleaning one's office efficiently but not effectively if the goal was to send a proposal to a client. The document concludes by advertising a personal productivity training module that helps people utilize tools to be highly productive and has measurable returns of up to 500%.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
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Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
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Initiative Overload
At one time or another, most organizations have faced cost inflation, reduced profitability, stress, and poor morale. This is true more than ever in today’s challenging business environment.
The way organizations deal with such issues is by taking up new initiatives to reduce costs, improve performance, reduce cycle time etc. There are high chances that your organization is facing what is known as ‘Initiative Overload’. In fact, initiative overload is also one of the prime reasons most strategies fail.
Corporate strategies are rarely thought in detail or communicated effectively top to down through the organization. In most instances, there is no buy in from the people who will be implementing these new initiatives. Employees are already overloaded with routine tasks and have their hands full just keeping up with day to day work, let alone take up new initiatives.
There is an overload of initiatives without a clear communication, articulation of business value or resource requirements. As a result time, money and resources are ….
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