The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
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Co-founder of Iodine and author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine” Thomas Goetz takes the TEDMED stage to discuss the revolution of medical data. Your medical chart can be hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if…
To remain competitive in the market requires management to take an active role in recognizing and acknowledging that the business environment is changing daily. As Sullivan and Harper (1996) explain, “Today, we face fundamental shifts in technology, markets, human resource development, global distribution, information management, government intervention, and other critical dimensions of the strategic environments in…
The directive was clear, “You have a week to find a way to defuse our ‘process bombs.” This was the challenge put out by the new Vice President at a Fortune 200 company upon inheriting a business process fraught with delays and errors. It is amazing what a sense of urgency and an aggressive deadline will…
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In this fascinating Ted Talk, Ralph Langner – control system security consultant – provides his audience with glimpse into the exciting world of cyber-forensics. Having received worldwide recognition for cracking the mystery of the 2010 Stuxnet malware worm, Ralph Langner explains how he and his team not only helped to identify this cyber weapon’s final…
Is the sum of the parts greater than the whole? A number of the world’s largest companies are considering the degree of truth this timeless motto holds. Starbursting is the popular term given to restructuring a company by breaking it up into smaller pieces and sending forth these new, smaller divisions toward the stock markets….
If you thought that Italy’s seemingly unassuming yogurt industry was just that, think again. French dairy group Lactalis have historically set their sights on Italian owned company Parmalat. A strategic, successful bid for a greater percentage of the Italian-owned company placed the French stakeholders too uncomfortably close to the company takeover threshold for the Italians….
