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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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. Today, I’d like to talk about staffing our organizations to meet the demands of growth and turnover–or simply, talent management. labor force ( Pew Research Center).

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, we want to maintain our strong position of hiring women across all levels of the organization, and we know we have more work to do among mid-level manager+ employees to have women more strongly represented.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. All rights reserved.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. Trends help us forecast the future.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. But right now that’s not happening.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

The already inflated world of ‘reputation management’ websites lured people into buying advertising in order to create the facade of being a ‘consultant.’ Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17%).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For this reason and others, the ‘family business’ trend is flourishing. Leveraging each person’s individual strengths, including management capabilities, for the business’ greater good needs to continually be top-of-mind. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. at the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Customers act as managers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

This brings order to the chaos of initiatives and provides a clearer basis for narrowing down priorities and managing the cross-functional interdependencies that the best digital solutions often present. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” This trend has key implications for talent management. Sometimes, as the leapfrog leader trend indicates, the individual who rises to the top is something of a surprise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. corporations from 1985 to 2015. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? We need to predict performance for the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

With a few exceptions, it’s been an industry not traditionally associated with concerns about environmental impacts, human rights, and wellness, even while those trends have been sweeping through the mainstream consumer products sector. A combination of high quality, glamour, celebrity, and attitude. Slavery is still a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Although the impact of each company’s decision is small, this cumulative trend contributes to the growing inequality of wealth and the stagnation of middle-class earnings, reinforcing the deeply entrenched poverty of nearly 50 million Americans. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

What links the world together has changed fundamentally — and for many companies, succeeding in this new operating environment will require rethinking many past decisions and assumptions. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Heading into 2015, a number of trends are apparent in the accelerator space. A new trend is established programs pivoting away from the accelerator model and label. Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management' Running the rankings also provides us insight into the accelerator industry at large.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The trend sees big companies such as CVS Health, State Street, and American Express evolving small hiring programs for opportunity youth, driven by corporate social responsibility, into core business strategy (see our study “Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping into Unemployed Youth” ). Sourcing for Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Nonetheless, in 2015 Geisinger Health System implemented an IT system called a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) which allowed us to integrate big data into our existing data analytics and management systems. We saw two major opportunities to use the UDA to reduce and manage sepsis. Surgery costs and outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

A recent USA Today piece noted: “At the end of June [2015], there were 3,739 breweries in the U.S…that’s Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response. At that rate, the number of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

However, the trend is to localize smaller versions of these markets, with much lighter licensing requirements intended to draw in a wide swath of business and even residential market participants. B operated the same way as A, with no special control. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Energy Licensing Efficiency Software 8

Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2015

Focusing on goals establishes a business culture of innovation and collaboration because you are measuring ongoing operations, not a single point in time. This includes communicating the value and impact of more strategic goal setting, tracking, and management to everyone. Increased visibility across silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

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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. How talent management is changing. ” Insight Center. . ” Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The survey reveals 81% of top performing companies (compared to 74% of average companies) used some form of pay-for-performance practices in 2015. It appears there is a growing trend toward using bonuses to pay for performance, as half of these top performing companies are increasing their budget for bonuses in 2016. Train managers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. Global business'

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