Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. “Not only are these programs cost effective to implement, but they yield real and immediate bottom line value.”. About StrategyDriven.

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Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Metrics 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here). Rely on HR for advice, not essential decisions. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Don’t deviate from your core values, or you’ll compromise your self-respect.

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Short-term Advice Uncertainty Environment 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. In that way, strategic leaders make it easy for others to share ideas by encouraging new ways of thinking and explicitly asking for advice. The following is a guest piece by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson.

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Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 This asks that we operate with openness, clear communication and accountability. Based on Greenberg’s sage advice, it’s clear that being a credibility-conscious sales operation does not take a large budget. well above April 2014's 81.7

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Crisis Strategy Brand Telemarketing 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The best advice I can give you is to keep your global business connected. He is responsible for Product Management & Marketing for Sage X3 globally, and is in charge of ensuring that the Operating Company (OpCo) teams are aligned behind the product strategy. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Getting bad advice from the wrong people, mainly other tech professionals. Some heeded the advice of myself and others… many did not avail themselves.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

This week, Jake shared with me insights and advice about being an entrepreneur and leading his team and growing his company. Thankfully now we have a growing team that can assist with many of the day-to-day operations, but at times, especially at the beginning, I found it challenging to be “among the chaos” while building the business.

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Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It used to be that parents and grandparents were the go-to family members for advice and input on important decisions. He currently co-owns and operates three entrepreneurial companies with his father, Elliott Greenberg, which have each flourished for over 10 years. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Management is relying upon financial people as the primary source of advice, while ignoring the rest of the picture (90%). It is big and grandiose.

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Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. A profitable new line of business is created. Data is, of course, a prime example.

Software 8

Software Industry Operations Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. In 2015 , the U.S.

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Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. 63% of firms reported that they expect to invest greater than $10 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 24% in 2012.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Drawing from these examples, we also hope to provide some advice on how to deal with the increasing number and variety of cybercriminal gangs. They tend to operate in disciplined networks on a larger, international scale. This helps them hide their identities and avoid extraditions.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

For example, investment advice companies providing “robo-advice” to their customers have often attempted to get human advisors to shift their focus to “behavioral finance,” or providing advice and “nudges” to encourage wise decisions and actions in investing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In 2015, there was a surplus of people with data science skills. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. What’s missing, more often than not, is a clear strategy and operational model for using these capabilities in ways that are specific to the company’s business requirements.

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Analysis How To Tools Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

” If you’re dealing with innovations that have led to a dominant new business model in your industry, that advice is sound, as the leaders of Netflix and Blockbuster can tell you. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people. Have you ever come across an area like that?

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people. Have you ever come across an area like that?

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

As of 2015, the initiative had grown to 70,000 sales agents serving 165,000 Indian villages, and HUL had equipped them with smartphone apps to help them manage inventory and other aspects of their business. By 2015, it had grown to 35 million subscribers and was adding 25,000 a day. The cost is less than 2 cents per impression.

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Cost Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

” The intention was right, but there was no operational impact. In 2015, a sales rep earned commission on everything they closed. ” Today, that advice feels out of date. I made a couple mistakes along the way. First, I just said, “hey, we’re going to be a ‘delight’ company!”

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B2C Energy Marketing B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. ” Insight Center.

Globalization 8

Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. Around the world, 15.8 But HIV remains a global threat. That’s how Casa Ruby found us.

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Project Health Care Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

And who’s in the best position to offer advice? The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Identify a trustworthy operations or financial manager who can help answer your questions and serve as a sounding board.

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Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

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Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

This advice holds true at work as well. So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. A happily married couple we know advises that you should treat your spouse at least as well as you do a stranger.

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Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

” One smart strategy is to tap an independent board member to evaluate your progress and performance so you can get smart career advice and reviews. When it was clear that Teddy Winthrop was growing dissatisfied with his career at an executive search firm, his brother Bayard offered him some advice. Have a backup plan.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

This advice, adapted from the book Finance Basics , will help you better understand how to create a useful budget. Instead, ask yourself what the budget shows about last year’s operations. Could you increase the anticipated sales for this model by 5% or 10% in 2015? Budgets should be ambitious but realistic.

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Budgeting Finance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Determining the impact of political spending on stakeholders, the firm’s long-term interests, on broader issues in which it may have a stake, and the needs of the society in which the company operates. Obtaining outside assistance or counsel for advice, expertise or help.

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Politics Committee CPA Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

These cases clearly point to the importance of understanding how platform-employers operate, and how work is structured within semi-automated, algorithmic management systems. We analyzed online driver forums, where tens of thousands of drivers share advice and compares notes on their experiences and challenges with the Uber system.

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Management Price Disaggregation System 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

2015, our very time is divided according to the number of years since he lived. I mean, we’ve got a roomful of college students, any advice on how they find those organizations? A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They want to be connected. This just happened.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

2015, our very time is divided according to the number of years since he lived. I mean, we’ve got a roomful of college students, any advice on how they find those organizations? A couple of weeks ago, there was this operations officer and I said to the COO, “You gotta fire this guy. They want to be connected. This just happened.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100