The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
ByTED
Space activist Peter Diamandis runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. In this optimistic TED talk, he makes a case for optimism: That we’ll keep inventing, innovating and creating ways to solve whatever challenges we…
Mistake 1: Leaders fail to prepare themselves for change I bet there’s not one person reading this article who is not experiencing some kind of change, whether in your work or personal life. Regardless of the type of change, you’re often in the position of leading others through the change. Your role involves helping others…
The Big Idea How can executives (or any of us, for that matter) use what we know about process improvement to engage and motivate the people in our lives? Which touch points for intervention are most effective? How can we measure success? Rachel’s approach to identifying defects in the way her family operates and harnessing…
Gulfport Energy Shares fell rapidly last spring. That is until the oil and gas producer admitted to having begun drilling its initial 3 wells in the Utica shale formation in Ohio. Since that day, the firm’s value has doubled and continues to grow. Energy producers in the Ohio have likened the Utica to the giant…
The idea that America’s growth potential is no longer what it used to be is old news to many. A number of economists believe that the economic crisis itself sabotaged future economic opportunities by denying startups and other companies on the forefront of innovation of financing and staff. However, Mr Obama’s council pose an alternative…
How do currencies compare? Realistically? THE ECONOMIST turns to burgernomics to find the answer. Burgernomics, or the Big Mac index is based on the idea that exchange rates should adjust in such a way that the price of a basket of goods, or a Big Mac in this case, in different locations around the world,…
