Tapping Your Greatest Resource – with Jeremy Eden and Terri Long
May 9, 2014
Hosted by Olivia Parr-Rud
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Are you bogged down by endless meetings, company politics, and bureaucratic stagnation? Would you like to learn a few simple actions you can take right now to improve profits? According to my guests, Jeremy Eden and Terri Long, there are at least 77 easy tactics to improve production and increase profits. Company insiders, not outside consultants, have the answers. Your employees, when given the right tools, have hundreds of ideas to help your company to succeed. But senior executives need a well-designed process to get those answers – a process that results in actionable steps to grow revenue and improve the customer experience. Join us as we discuss Jeremy and Terri’s new book “Low-Hanging Fruit – 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits" (Wiley 2014). Learn how to turn misleading metrics upside down, discard benchmarking, and challenge the status quo. Gain insight into an often untapped resource. Discover the easy route to higher earnings
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In today’s fast-paced, high-tech, global economy, the business landscape is constantly changing. The confluence of big data, emerging technologies, and global connectivity puts unprecedented pressure on companies to become more innovative and agile. To maintain a competitive edge, companies must constantly adapt while continuing to identify and exploit new opportunities. Interestingly, new models are emerging from science and nature that offer a unique perspective – one that sees our global economy as a highly interconnected, continually evolving complex adaptive system. These models unveil powerful insights for optimizing our business strategies and processes. Each week on Quantum Business Insights, Olivia explores these concepts with thought leaders from around the globe. We look for ways to leverage their insights to ignite innovation, inspire our workforce, and create positive outcomes for our companies, our communities, and the planet.
Olivia Parr-Rud
Olivia Parr-Rud is a renowned thought-leader, speaker, author, and consultant in the areas of business intelligence, innovative leadership, and organizational alignment. She is considered a pioneer in the integration of data science and holistic organizational practices that deliver success through the optimal blending of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and practices.
Her early research and innovative advancements in data mining and business intelligence led to the writing of her best-selling book, Data Mining Cookbook, Modeling for Acquisition, Risk and Customer Relationship Management (Wiley, 2001). Realizing the need for enhanced human competencies in fast-paced, high-tech organizations, she was inspired to conduct research in the areas the communication, collaboration, innovation, adaptability, and leadership. This led to the unveiling of links between the global economy, organizational dynamics and complexity science, highlighted in her second book, Business Intelligence Success Factors, Aligning for Success in a Global Economy (Wiley/SAS, 2009).
Olivia lectures and consults internationally in the areas of business intelligence, communication, innovation, and leadership. Her current research is focused on psychology, human capital, brain science, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, systems theory, and complexity science. She holds a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Statistics.
