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November 30, 2004 | Authored By: Robert Charette
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In this Executive Update, we describe the application of Scrum in the restaurant business. This environment is similar to that of Lean hardware Scrum, in that shifts are repeatedly creating and delivering products in short cycles with high quality. Process efficiency and cycle time become the key metrics for production.
September 19, 2019 | Authored By: Riccardo Mariti, Jeff Sutherland
July 31, 2005 | Authored By: Ben Radhakrishnan
Coming into the restaurant at the conference, Ray spotted a table of old friends waving him over to join them. "Congratulations on your promotion, Ray! Your company is lucky to have you as its CIO," Fran said. "What's your plan?"
March 14, 2006 | Authored By: Diana Larsen, Pollyanna Pixton
British Petroleum (BP -- London, UK) has been judged Europe's top knowledge-based enterprise.
January 31, 2002 | Authored By: Bruce Taylor
A TRIVIAL PURSUIT FOR IT ORGANIZATIONS? Gamification refers to the relatively new trend of applying game design elements to nongame contexts to drive user motivation and participation.
This Executive Update is the second in a two-part series containing excerpts from a panel discussion on business-IT alignment (see Executive
July 31, 1999 | Authored By: Maxwell Hughes, Chris Pickering, Rob Thomsett, Steve Andriole, Steve Andriole, Jim Highsmith
Home entertainment is undergoing a revolution. We are in the midst of a multimedia content insurgency fueled by people creating, sharing, and watching video online.
October 27, 2010 | Authored By: Charalampos Patrikakis, Richard Page
The team is the fundamental unit of organizational work, not the individual. But the ways we manage our teams — and thus our talent — often set us up for systemic gaps and increasing challenges (versus continuous improvement) over time. Today’s executives face two ongoing complex problems: business strategy and people leadership. The invisible nature of these talent issues makes solving them a strategic need through HR capacity building over time.
August 25, 2020 | Authored By: Robert Ogilvie, Jeffrey McNally
INTRODUCTION Agile project management is more aligned to leadership best practice than to traditional project management best practice.
April 30, 2006 | Authored By: Mike Griffiths
In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series (Vol. 8, No.
September 14, 2007 | Authored By: J.M. Sampath
Corporate governance is the means by which accountability to stakeholders is ensured, yet organizations often fail at creating governance plans that align with the organizational context.
February 8, 2009 | Authored By: Cheryl Lampshire, Greg Fletcher
Corporate governance is the means by which accountability to stakeholders is ensured, yet organizations often fail at creating governance plans that align with the organizational context.
February 9, 2009 | Authored By: Cheryl Lampshire, Greg Fletcher
INTRODUCTION
The novel A Tale of Two Cities 1 begins with the oft-quoted line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." Although these words were written to describe the situation prior to the French Revolution, the same w
September 14, 2006 | Authored By: Daniel Langin
IT executives are continuing to keep an eye on the US and world economies and are looking for ways to cut expenses to meet reduced spending goals. One option is to consider establishing an offshore development team or outsource to an offshore vendor.
August 14, 2008 | Authored By: Stacey Berlow
A May 2006 article in APICS magazine describes the search by a California-based global electronics manufacturer for the best approach to continuous improvement.1 The company found that the right combinat
October 31, 2006 | Authored By: Christoph Steindl, Christian Federspiel
Building trust lies at the heart of success with agile approaches to software development.
August 23, 2010 | Authored By: Rachel Davies
The use of vendor panels has been standard practice in business and government for some time; indeed, you probably don’t give it much thought. However, panels are grossly underutilized, despite receiving the highest “very satisfied” score with customers relative to sole sourcing (single suppliers) and head contracting (prime contractors with subcontractors).
Explaining the poor utilization of panels is not so simple. There are a myriad of traps that organizations fall into. This Executive Update explains the common traps and provides the tricks to leverage your use of panels.
February 22, 2016 | Authored By: Sara Cullen
The only thing you can be sure of when speaking to someone else about SRM is that he or she will think it's something different than what you mean. This leads to our first trap in Part I of this two-part Executive Update series on SRM tricks and traps at the conceptual level. What is the purpose of SRM? Is it to have good relationships? To collect data? To foster innovation?
November 3, 2014 | Authored By: Sara Cullen