Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2012

Operational Risk Management. Without a consistent way to manage people, assets, and process safety, companies are more susceptible to risks that drive up costs and can cause serious incidents. You must proactively manage and reduce operational risk, but it requires discipline. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. You just finished reading StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum !

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2013

Operational Risk Management : How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Click here for more information on Operational Risk Management : How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 28, 2017

Just hire the factory space and equipment, hire the staff, maybe even outsource this process, and you’ll be good to go, right? There needs to be an understanding of how many people are needed to operate the machinery, how many people need to be there in quality control, and how many are responsible for storage. You’d be wrong.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 25, 2019

Back in 2007 Harvard’s Dani Rodrik famously argued that democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are mutually incompatible. Two of the three can be combined, but it’s impossible to have all three simultaneously and in full. ”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Could your company’s operational performance cause the next Black Swan tragedy? Before we answer the question of whether or not your company’s operations could cause a Black Swan event, I need you to consider your organization’s risk tolerance as we’ll be defining the Black Swan event in those terms.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Effective performance improvement programs promote alignment of business operations with the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. Such programs consistently identify opportunities to improve high value-adding operations and to eliminate low value-adding activities. Components of a Well-Documented Self-Assessment Process.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A department wants to improve the process because it would help in a key initiative.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. So you need to discuss that with the Process Owner and Executive Sponsor. You just finished reading Do Your Business Process Metrics Measure Up? !

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. For this, a checklist review process can be very helpful.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? Do your sophisticated screening processes do such a great job of filtering that blind you to new opportunities and critical information?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. A key point for all leaders to consider is that it’s impossible to stick your foot in your mouth when it’s closed. Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The moral of the story is this…A lack of delegation creates operational bottlenecks, delegation confused with abdication creates organization chaos, and effective delegation of authority vs. tasks creates personal and operational excellence. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

It is essential for organizational health and performance that conflict be accepted and addressed through effective conflict resolution processes. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Commitment means you will persist with the process long before it appears to be working. It's what we know that just isn't so that holds us back the most. Be willing to do well what most people won't do at all. Deliberate practice over time is what separates the great performers from the great pretenders. I needed to hear that.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Feedback : If as a leader you don’t subject yourself to a 360 review process, then you are not earnestly looking for personal growth and development opportunities. Sad but true…real talent won’t be attracted to, or remain engaged with leaders who operate on fear-based tactics. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process. Identify problems upstream and spare the organization a lot of stress and expense.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Are any of your executives thought leaders?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. My premise was that business logic is similar to the logic used in solving mathematical equations - if you attempt to solve a problem out of sequence it will result in a flawed outcome.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. Establish operational procedures : You can now establish processes and methods to collect the data, frequency and consolidation mechanism.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. If you want to become a true standout as opposed to someone who has great potential my message is simple – become very intentional about bringing discipline to every area of your life.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Continuity should flow from values to vision, mission to strategy, and objectives to tactics to process. Be consistent: Consistency in all things throughout the value chain is critical. Mixed messaging or practices has killed many a brand.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

Over the years I have found that you really can't change anyones wiring until they are committed to being part of the rewiring process. That said, changing behavior really only requires one thing – the willingness to do so. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy.

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