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Building a Learning Organization
The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...
Tags: David A. Garvin, hypotheses, knowledge, Boeing Co., team, food, tool, environment, industry
Articles 2008-04-01

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HBR IdeaCast: Learning Organizations
If your company's rate of learning isn't greater than the rate of change in your industry, you will fall behind. David Garvin and Amy Edmonson talk about how companies can create, acquire, interpret, and retain knowledge, then modify their behavior to respond to those knowledge insights. They also use examples...
Tags: Strategy, BNET staff, Learning Organization, HBR IdeaCast, knowledge
Blog posts 2008-03-10
Tools for Assessing Your Organization's Learning Capabilities
Every organization must learn or die -- learn about itself, the competition, the market, the world. A new Harvard Business Review package on organizational learning wraps together an article, assessment tool and video interview to help you judge your own organization's learning capabilities. What does a...
Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-03-03
Aspiring Entrepreneur Fortifies Franchise Agreement With Expert Advise From SCORE
Although he had never been in business for himself, David White was determined to someday be his own boss. David decided that purchasing a Heaven's Best Carpet Cleaning franchise offered the most promising opportunity for his skills and interests. While the franchiser would provide training and other assistance to get...
Tags: agreement, training
Case studies
Jon David: Broadening Your Business Through Invention
Jon David spent his career developing microdermabrasion machines for dermatologists and spas before founding Crystalift, the first company to develop a similar machine for sale to the general public. David talks in depth about the benefits he realized by diversifying his product for a larger customer base.
Tags: Professional development, career, benefit
Videos 2008-03-14
Video: Getting Things Done, David Allen's Way
At the Under the Radar confab in Silicon Valley on March 26, 'Getting Things Done' author David Allen gave CNET a dollop of his time. He explained the importance of list management for those who want to be effective in using their time, and offered...
Tags: Aerospace & Defense, BNET staff, David Allen, Getting Things Done
Blog posts 2007-03-30
A Perspective on Turning “David” into “Goliath” for Sustained Growth
Many small companies, in their quest to win small skirmishes in industries controlled by larger adversaries often choose to position as a “David” battling the “Goliath’s” of their industry. With a message that readily resonates with both customers who are ready to churn and employees looking for inspiration, posturing as...
Tags: strategy, industry
White papers 2003-01-03
On the Ground in Shanghai -- A New Blog on Business and Life
My friend David Cummins, a young American ex-pat working in Shanghai, has started a new blog titled "This is China". Based on his first few posts, I expect this will be a great read for anyone looking for on-the-ground insights into what it's like to live and do business in...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-02-13
David Paine: Compensating Creativity
David Paine, founder and Chairman of PainePR, emphasizes work/life balance at his firm. He believes that his employees' productivity has improved significantly as a result. Paine talks in depth about the positive effects of his cutting-edge human resources model and describes how it helps make his firm more...
Tags: Productivity, Public Relations, David Paine, Paine PR
Videos 2008-03-08
Master Your Multitasking
David Allen is the patron saint of personal productivity. Find out how he can help you get things done.If you're not familiar with David Allen, you'll probably be hearing more about him soon. Allen is a personal-productivity expert with legions of fans and a bestselling book under his belt, and...
Tags: David Allen, Allen, Aerospace & Defense, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Process Improvement, Manufacturing, Marketing, Quality, Business Operations, Andrew Mager
Articles 2008-02-19
Going for the Jugular in Ping Pong
After my post last week on my Epic Ping Pong Match I received several emails from local Boulderites who wanted to challenge me on my home court.This morning, David Cohen, a local angel investor, entrepreneur, and executive director of TechStars, walked into my condominium. I've been working with David on...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, TechStars, Jack Bauer
Blog posts 2007-02-06
Learning in the Thick of It
The Idea in Brief Like many managers, you probably conduct after-action reviews (AARs) to extract lessons from key projects and apply them to others. But in most companies, AARs don?t fulfill their promise: Scrapped projects, poor investments, and failed safety measures repeat themselves?while...
Tags: Garvin, Team Management, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, BNET Editorial, AAR, Team, Lesson
Articles 2007-09-24
David Norris: Succeeding in a Tough Market
David Norris of Continental Real Estate Services has closed over $2 billion in loans in his career. His boutique firm sources debt and equity for real estate developers in New York and Los Angeles. Norris works mostly with developers for retail and multi-family properties, with some focus...
Tags: real estate, equity, career
Videos 2007-12-28
David Waxman: New Opportunity in Old Media
Think globally, act locally. That type of thinking helped David Waxman, co-founder of internet-based ad agency Spot Runner tap into the multi-billion local TV ad market. While other firms were concentrating on the big fish and networks, Waxman and his partner Nick Grouf saw a huge opportunity in aggregating the...
Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, long tail, TV, advertisement, Internet, network
Videos 2007-12-04
Video: What is a Mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David...
Tags: video, BNET staff, mashup
Blog posts 2006-07-13
Talent Agent David Unger: Creative Management
Though it's possible you've never whispered David Unger's name in a movie theater, he is responsible for many of the names you've seen on the silver screen. As a Talent Agent at International Creative Management, one of the world's largest literary and talent agencies, Unger takes credit for furthering...
Tags: Workforce management, talent, career, movie
Videos 2007-12-18
Boingo's David Hagan: World Wide WiFi
Before David Hagan became President of Boingo Wireless, he spent 15 years bring Sprint from obscurity to a 600 million dollar a year business. Boingo Wireless, a Hot Spot wifi travel service for laptops and dual mode handsets, does partnerships with 150 operators including Nokia and Skype and...
Tags: Boingo Networks, partnership, Wi-Fi, laptop computer, Web
Videos 2007-12-17
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness
DETROIT (Reuters) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co (F) said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back...
Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Australia, CEO, Thomson Reuters Corp., team
News items 2008-04-20
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Dies After Two-year Illness
DETROIT (Reuters UK) - The chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover has died in his home country of Australia after a long illness, Ford Motor Co (F) said on Sunday. He was 60. Geoff Polites led the team that turned Jaguar Land Rover back to profitability...
Tags: Land Rover, Ford Motor Co., CEO, Team Management, Management, Oukbs
News items 2008-04-20
Use Macros to Save Time (and Wrists)
Every day, I spend countless mind-numbing minutes mousing and typing my way around my computer in order to do the same things over and over again, like dragging something to the trash or opening up Word in a format that allow me to track changes I make to documents. Even...
Tags: David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2007-08-22
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