Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Name and address information required. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

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Energy 57

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. We managed university budget cuts with grace; we had far less turn over than the university as a whole and even lower than national averages for the same job categories. Name and address information required. Book value is not guaranteed.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Unless you are a big player with an enormous marketing budget (e.g., Name and address information required. Lesson: Avoid Initials.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. That is, it’s junk data containing no valid information.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You can have a foundational version that compellingly articulates your most important information, but you may have to alter it, perhaps only slightly, for each position you’re applying for. Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. It’s important to tweak your résumé for each opportunity. Here’s how.

COO 11

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? my budget is a joke.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Similarly, only 8% are using AI to allocate budgets across the company. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. Just 6% are using AI in pricing. Where to Find the Low-Hanging Fruit.

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

This meant that machines could deal with the exploding growth of non-numeric information that is getting hard for humans to keep track of: to name two prominent and crucially important examples, keeping up with all of the knowledge coming out of human genome research , or keeping track of all the medical information in patient records.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Exceed client expectations. Measure success.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

Organization 8

Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology'

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

Apparently, neither the governor nor anyone on his task force or in his office knew that this information is readily available on the organizations' tax forms.) Within three weeks the task force sent letters to hundreds of nonprofit organizations demanding to know what they pay their executives and board members. I could list thousands more.

Execution 12

Execution Letter Committee Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

On one hand, there are wars, terror, market crashes, bailouts, budget crises, cliffs, and sequesters. That means that they simply avoid making important changes in hopes of receiving more consistent information down the road. The uncertainty that business leaders face today is palpable. Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Long-term Dunning Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9