Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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Team Building 114

Team Building Case Study Learning-by-Doing Training 114

Strategy Driven

JUNE 14, 2011

Beginning with the end in mind, it is important for those developing business cases for the organization’s various ongoing operations and proposed initiative alternatives to do so in such a way that leaders can compare the cost and benefits of the proposed activities. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Cost 50

Cost Development Proposal Comparison 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2011

Business planning documents not only seek to communicate the organizational value of a particular ongoing operation, in-progress project, or proposed initiative, they also provide a comparative basis which decision-makers use to determine those activities the organization will pursue. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Comparison 50

Comparison Development Sample Proposal 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc. Categories : Businesswomen Bloggers 4 Comments 1 Tweets that mention There’s Still Time :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 1:07 pm [.] Thanks for the good read!

Press Release 182

Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

The Recovering Engineer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

While I was in the Navy and learning to become an Engineering Officer, I learned about the specific margins that were built into both the submarine and the engineering plant to ensure safe operation. I don’t propose that I have a “silver bullet&# answer for creating more margin. Last beyond a forgotten task?

Engineering 169

Engineering Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Chemicals 169

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The findings emerged from an analysis of data collected from the UK government’s 2011 Work-Life Balance Survey. Thankfully, a third study highlights how such attitudes are open to change, especially when managers gain experience with employees who operate with flexible work schedules, with the impact of their peers considerable.

Career 67

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 67

Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2011

Leaders face the difficult challenge of selecting those few operational activities their organization will pursue from the multitude that are proposed every planning cycle. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Selecting those activities the organization engages in requires a degree of both art and science.

Content 50

Content Sample Proposal Document 50

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Next Level Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

"  Whether they’re stated or not, most organizations have operating principles.  Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. It is also stark and interesting to see how little many people know about Muslim people.

Leadership 138

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Blog Simon 138

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

Directory 167

Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

Blog 322

Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 322

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. ” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Parents were patrons. Upon arrival, we were greeted by a polite, 6-year-old host with a white shirt and bowtie.

Quality 51

Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sachin: October 11, 2010 at 7:20 pm Mary, It’s funny how just the first couple words of somebody’s response already defines the attiude being proposed. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

Blog 167

Blog Self-aware Letter Greenleaf 167

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Something reassuring happened Monday after EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy unveiled the Obama administration’s proposed Clean Power Plan , arguably the most important step the U.S. There will be time to debate whether the EPA’s proposed targets are sufficiently ambitious. The program delivered $1.6

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations allows them to defer taxes on their profits from international operations until they bring the cash back to the U.S. An economic distortion caused by the tax code — by which foreign corporations operating in the U.S. or whatever. are favored over U.S.-based

GDP 12

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. The short answer is no.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. That, though, is a largely technical issue, because your nominal headquarters need not be your operational one. It probably wouldn't matter much if your operations were really evenly distributed across the world.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. As the U.S. presidential campaign moves into its final months, newspapers are full of promises from both candidates. But there's promising news from Europe that's also worth attention.

Diversity 15

Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

It is reviewing or arguing this question in court for a slew of proposed mergers — AT&T-Time Warner, T-Mobile-Sprint, CVS-Aetna, and Express Scripts-Cigna, to name a few. For example, CFIUS blocked the proposed acquisition of MoneyGram by Jack Ma’s Ant Financial over data security concerns. But what about competition?

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

During that difficult time Dirk Bowman, former GE Appliances General Manager of Manufacturing, went to GE Chairman Jeff Immelt with a proposal. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start.

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. So it was Lyme disease that did it! But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. He proposed that we try something new. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

After extensive consultation with pilots and other experts, the FAA has proposed a rule change that might allow operational use of tablets. At a TechCrunch conference in 2011, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joked, apparently proudly , that “I think I’ve got 20,000 years of jail time in front of me.”

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Indeed, there are signs that corporate leaders are repeating the mistakes of the heady days of 2000, when the fear of missing out sometimes overpowered the logic of a proposed deal. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Earlier this month in Strasbourg, European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding proposed a new law that would enforce quotas of 40% for women's representation on European corporate boards by 2020. Why did she do it? Progress requires action.

Diversity 8

Diversity Mentor System Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Creating public support for legislative proposals that the industry favors or public opposition to legislation that it opposes.

Strategic Planning 79

Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 79

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Ask a true business strategist to help you to determine which consultants are needed, draft the requests for proposals, evaluate credentials and recommend contracting options. 17 percent).

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

All they read is commercial offers, proposals, etc. Avil Beckford [link] Slava This is somewhat surprising and quite contrary to the CEOs I know. They haven't read a book in years. Some magazines – yes, but mostly glance through the pictures. Maybe it's the scale – they aren't the leaders of huge companies.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” This year the issue of profit and propose came to the fore, echoing the earlier manifestos. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Operating managers were empowered to develop unique business models and launch derivative products by themselves to best serve each unique segment; and in the process, disrupted and competed with one another.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

An example of this is the Bree Collaborative , a multi-stakeholder collaborative created by the Washington State legislature in 2011 “to provide a mechanism through which public and private health care stakeholders can work together to improve quality, health outcomes, and cost effectiveness of care.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Proposal Quality Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

” In 1962 the Rand Corporation commissioned a spectrum study by Coase but refused to publish its own report when referees savaged his proposal. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8