Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

FINDLAY, OHIO, May 2, 2011 - Matt Lauth and Jim Bendt, and their new firm, Strategy Execution Advisors , is now a certified partner of a nationwide network of business coaching practices that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution program to its clients. ” Overall business performance both in the U.S. About Six Disciplines.

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Execution Strategy Executive Coaching Consultative 101

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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Business Objectives Metrics Objective Directory 142

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Heather McCulligh , Halogen Software Talent Management Blog : Why You Need a Strong Talent Bench - Most leaders and executives would strongly agree that an executive succession plan is critical to an organization's continued success.   Watch the video here , or feel free to download the PDF transcript.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership.

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Project Leadership Directory Quality 126

QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree. Read the reviews here and here ).

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Quality Blog Management Self-aware 120

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters. What do you think when you experience poor design in your life?

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

The innovation initiative was born from our Organizational Growth Team, a cross-functional internal team formed in 2011 to focus on investing in Genecians, evolving our capabilities, and predictably delivering value to clients. Operational Strategy. ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. The Innovation Group is Born. The Company.

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Innovation Incubator Brand Document 130

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

But structuring an area of work in form of processes, you are reducing dependencies and improving operational efficiency. Track the progress and improve further. Sure, it is a hard work first time. So if you are a manager or leader at any level, do a reality check this morning. I can assure, you won’t regret doing any of these!

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Tips Directory Quality Blog 147

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# HPM uses powerful software to show companies where their health plan dollars are going, and where opportunities for savings exist.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. 2) Don’t Lead with Software Selection — Team Skills Come First. In 2011, Thomas Davenport was kind enough to keynote at the conference I founded, Predictive Analytics World.

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Objective Software Business Objectives Learning-by-Doing 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Just as you would in your office, when you’re online make sure to hold yourself accountable. Own your mistakes and always tell the truth – no exceptions.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions. Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage.

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Process Management Quality Tools 84

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it by Sharon Drew Morgen Every day, business people face critical buying decisions – from new software to revamped website design to employee training programs. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions. Do what you do best and outsource the software and community building to the experts. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Not too many would.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. In 2011, he was signed to Ellen DeGeneres' label, eleveneleven. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. What Google could do better.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. These hybrids pursue a social mission while engaging in commercial activities that generate revenues that help them sustain their operations.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

August 2011 HBR. While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. has folded; the other, Catchpool, is still operating. Accordingly, one strategy is to limit users to posting one link per day.

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. Google''s buyout of Android also fits into this category, adding the licensing of telecom-operating software to its main business model of contextual advertising.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. We live in a complex world.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% ” Anyone in the world who wants to operate out of Estonia can become a “resident” of the country — without living there. In this way, Estonia is suddenly making it possible for a whole new cadre of startup founders to operate in Europe at a fraction of the cost of living there.

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Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Around the world, though, many countries still have domestic payment networks that operate as not-for-profit platforms. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011. Commentators tend to give a lot of credit to Apple and Google for developing great mobile software platforms.

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IPO Succession Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I have an article in the new (November 2011) issue of Harvard Business Review called "What Every CEO Needs to Know About the Cloud." After all, companies already have tons of technology; it's not like they're operating at present without hardware, software, databases, and networks.

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CEO Document Technology Article 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This ambitious goal envisioned a software program that learns by ‘observing and learning from the past, acting in the present and anticipating the future.’ and by 2010 was acquired by Apple and launched as part of the iPhone operating system in October 2011. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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