Vanessa Van Edwards

MARCH 12, 2024

Learn the science behind your burnout and use my framework for getting unstuck, increasing your energy, and preventing burnout from happening again. Yes, teams can customize the exercise to focus on specific areas such as communication, process improvement, or team dynamics. Are you burnt out? It’s not your fault!

Marketing 98

Marketing Implementation Engineering Accounts 98

Vantage Circle

MAY 24, 2024

Identify specific behaviors and actions that align with your core values, such as teamwork, hard work, energy, data-driven, innovation, and accountability. As a company, you expect your employees to showcase these core values in their daily tasks.

Performance Review 52

Performance Review Implementation Organizational Change Accounts 52

Vantage Circle

MAY 24, 2024

Identify specific behaviors and actions that align with your core values, such as teamwork, hard work, energy, data-driven, innovation, and accountability. As a company, you expect your employees to showcase these core values in their daily tasks.

Performance Review 52

Performance Review Implementation Organizational Change Accounts 52

Walk Me

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We don’t know what the future will hold for technology – in a 2022 mid-year outlook from McKinsey , applied AI continued to command a lot of innovation, and the clean energy future showed significant interest in search intent. Digital enterprise transformation is about making a business case for new and emerging capabilities.

Change Management 52

Change Management Manager Organizational Change Implementation 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

IT can make business processes much more efficient, and lock in process improvements. Companies like CSX, Morningstar and IBM show how IT can be more friend than foe to process changes. But this new IT platform could easily put the brakes on the company's next round of process improvements.

Process Improvement 14

Process Improvement Software Energy Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Look at ING , a leading bank in the Netherlands, which sets about process improvement by first getting its employees to recommend changes, ideally in short iterations and with frequent feedback loops, to avoid depleting people's energy and to decrease the likelihood of going too far down the wrong path.

Workflows 14

Workflows Process Improvement Implementation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Toyota made its quality reputation sending its lean manufacturing experts into its suppliers' production lines to advise them on product design and process improvement. And, of course, Wal-Mart has hugely committed to working with suppliers on more innovative ways to maximize energy efficiencies and minimize carbon footprints.

Energy 15

Energy Process Improvement 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

And most people believe it's necessary if we're going to solve the world's seemingly intractable problems — such as poverty, climate change, access to education and healthcare, creating renewable energy sources, and increasing global security. It's a collaboration success story that we can all learn from.

Nonprofit 18

Nonprofit Process Improvement Employee Engagement Diversity 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

Scaling 15

Scaling Digital Transformation Government Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” ” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad.

Government 14

Government Engineering Scaling Biotech 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

And most people believe it's necessary if we're going to solve the world's seemingly intractable problems — such as poverty, climate change, access to education and healthcare, creating renewable energy sources, and increasing global security. It's a collaboration success story that we can all learn from.

Nonprofit 10

Nonprofit Process Improvement Employee Engagement Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In many cases, integration efforts can take up so much time, energy, and attention that managers and employees are distracted from their day-to-day roles. After all, during a merger, that’s where all the action is. But if leadership allows itself to get distracted, the base business can quickly suffer. Create a dedicated deal team.

Operations 13

Operations Process Improvement Benefits Manager 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The growth of CMOs in high-tech fields such as alternative energy and integrated photonics would be a significant boost to the U.S. When it comes to process improvements, American companies are stagnating at best, and in many cases slipping backward. Third, they create jobs — really good, high-paying jobs.

Biotech 10

Biotech Assets Process Improvement Revenue 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It could undermine employees’ willingness to experiment, for instance, and result in missed opportunities for process improvement. And we waste energy (and put a drag on productivity) trying to fool them into being right. What’s more, devices aren’t always right about us.

Process Improvement 8

Process Improvement Energy Manager 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

.”) This allows leaders to focus on their team members’ well-being and to measure the impact of new processes, technologies, and care models on the well-being of physicians, nurses, and staff. Had we done this before EMR implementations, we would have avoided the burnout of a generation of clinicians.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Metrics Implementation Rollout 8

AIHR

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Without technology that simplifies and streamlines tasks, employees must devote time and energy to navigating inadequate systems, waiting for IT help, or concocting ways to complete daily tasks. Add self-service functions, automate processes, improve asynchronous communication, etc.) What digital tools are needed?

Digital Transformation 105

Digital Transformation Workflows User Experience Implementation 105

Zenefits

JULY 31, 2022

Some common strategies to start this process include ensuring your pricing is consistent with the current market conditions or increasing efficiency through process improvement. Increase efficiency through process improvements. Lastly, businesses can seek outside funding to offset increased expenses.

Manager 52

Manager Onboarding Banking Process Improvement 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on Toyota's approach to front line improvement).

Process Improvement 15

Process Improvement Operations Organizational Development Implementation 15

Peter Winick

JANUARY 6, 2025

But recently I’ve been doing the search on r n, which is kind of a database of papers that are that have not yet been published, that are kind of in the review process. You know, I did process improvements. But clarity improves productivity. It improves confidence in eliminates mistakes.

Manager 176

Manager Scaling Engineering Marketing 176

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Companies would like to see process improvements and better infrastructure at the border to reduce costs to import. That would likely lead to closing factories, seeking new sources for inputs, and raising prices to mitigate higher production cuts.

Administration 11

Administration Marketing Sales Sales 11