Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Nurture leaders at all levels.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. “Meaning is the new money, an HBR article argued in 2011. Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Entrepreneurs often have to pivot their business once it becomes clear that their original customer is not the right customer, or when it turns out that their product or service fits better in an alternate market. But the real key to succeeding in business is being flexible and responsive to opportunities. entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2005 the world’s largest insurance broker, Marsh Inc., Stumpf said in an earlier statement: “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail bankers are always focused on the best interests of customers.” Will eliminating sales goals do it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Unlike traditional forms of business risk, social and environmental risks manifest themselves over a longer term, often affect the business on many dimensions, and are largely outside the organization’s control. Redesigning products to meet environmental standards or social needs offers new business opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

based environmental consulting firm shunned acquisitions for its first 20 years, favoring organic growth. After a first deal fell through in late 2010, EORM acquired a Southern California firm in 2011. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There’s Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford commencement speaker and technology icon. As nicely described in David Kaplan’s book about the origins of the Silicon Valley, Ellison was great at telling customers that a product was available even if he was just thinking about designing it – possibly in response to the potential customer’s inquiry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I’ve had the opportunity to participate with many large, self-insured employers in three such marketplace collaboratives: one led by Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle in 2005, another led by Intel in Portland, Oregon, in 2009, and the Robert Bree Collaborative , created by the Washington State legislature in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

What Auerbach did write in 2005 was that “the cardinal rule of incidence analysis” is “that only individuals can bear the burden of taxation and that all tax burdens should be traced back to individuals.”. That’s the theory, at least.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos. They work with an eye toward scale.

Strategy 8

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. appreciate the way you expressed that!

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Drucker passed away in 2005.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In 2011, Richard Allen Williams and I outlined five principles for eliminating racial disparities as part of health care reform: Provide insurance coverage and access to high-quality care for all Americans. Concerted efforts to reduce health disparities could thus have immense economic and social value.

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Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Define your territories and “demilitarized zones&# - All too often, because of poorly defined roles and responsibilities within an organization, a lot of “toe-stepping&# occurs between different departments, because the lines of “ who does what &# are so blurry. That one act alone will make a HUGE difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

The virtual organizations we designed consisted only of employees that could search for ideas and a top management that selected the best ideas and shared a part of their value with the inventor. A 2005 survey of 306 German companies showed that ideas yielding a return worth 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. TMETC, which was established in 2005, got a big talent boost when Tata Motors acquired Jaguar and Land Rover in 2008. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 23, 2010

It doesn’t matter if you’re the organizer, or a participant. However, I challenge organizations to be more innovative with the format of their meetings. Otherwise, they’re just a big, inncesary load on our shoulders and a miserable waste of productive time. Or click the “accept” button.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

It’s really a matter of giving meaning to the work that each person does, which leads to happier, more motivated, and more productive teammates. Everyone who works for us in the organization wants and needs purpose for what they do. But successful leaders must resist that temptation. Here’s a specific example. Great post!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. The owners want consistent profits. Here are the 5 points: Values and Standards of Conduct.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

You need to set some ground rules and establish a usage policy, or perhaps end up scratching your head about the productivity declines. It’s truly up to each organization, individual or business to define what it is going to be to/for them. Social Media has its own language protocol, and “company-speak” isn’t one of them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

She published her first book, Spark: How Creativity Works in 2011 and now hosts her own podcast, Pursuit of Spark! Too many business leaders fail to understand the profound power that a culture of design can instill in an organization. Watch this TED talk to inspire more creativity in your work and personal life. Like to read?

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Godin Open-book Mass Marketing Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. Juliano Howard T.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I realized I was quite good at telling them how to create an organized business and motivating them to make it real, so I decided I wanted to actually use these skills to build a real business for myself. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

billion leveraged private equity buyout in 2005, with the aim of turning the chain around, but the resulting debt has proved to be unserviceable. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. In their 2005 book, W. Yet the struggles at the company are not new.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

No longer passive audiences, they can organize to overturn even the most strategic initiatives. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. How can organizations adapt to consumers armed with inexpensive weapons of mass collaboration? What does this mean for leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

First, you need to inject new energy into a tired organization under stress. He convened town hall meetings with local staff and organized regular national voice-of-the-village calls attended by as many as 4,000 people from offices and clinics around the country. The team then turned to the product line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Businesses are beholden to quarterly profit targets and product life cycles that span several years or less, whereas government planners focus on assets that can take a decade to build and remain in active service for many decades. We designed a one-day workshop for planning and, in 2011, took it on the road to venues across the country.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Redesign the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

With the passing of the torch at Apple from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook, the entire business world is wondering whether Apple can keep up the stellar performance of the second reign (1997-2011) of King Jobs or if this spells the end of its great run. To me the big question is not so much whether Apple will dream up great new products.

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Airlines Succession Creativity Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Founded in Malawi in 2005, North Star is now a non-profit network of more than 30 roadside health centers, operating along major transportation corridors across Africa in countries including Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, serving hundreds of thousands of patients each year. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 13, 2013

Anthropologist Joseph Campbell argues that all cultures, all societies, and, by extension, all organizations (political or otherwise) are engaged in a “hero quest.” A member of Dartmouth’s Religion Department since 1969, Professor Green served from 1992-2011 as director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute. In 2005, Prof.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. According to recent estimates from the Telework Research Network, telecommuting grew by over 70 percent between 2005 & 2011 - and based on existing trends, the number of virtual or telecommuting workers will expand to almost five million by 2016.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It’s 2010, sneaking up on 2011 – I’m looking for a HECK of a lot more than eye contact and posture from my leader. and prepared; if you want employees to be organized, then YOU be organized; if you want employees to be nice to one another, then YOU be nice to them, in public and private. Thanks again.

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