Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Interview: Creating a new rail network – from the ground up Written by Mark Rowland Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email CMgr of the Year nominee Tom Olliver CMgr FCMI faced a rare challenge for a rail engineer: to build a new network from scratch, to serve one of the biggest sporting events in the world.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. “We are delighted to welcome Greg to StrategyDriven as our Chief Operations Officer,” says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC President and Chief Executive Officer.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2021

Operating a business in this regard isn’t easy at all, and this, in many cases, leads to companies becoming stagnant as you get comfortable where you’re at now. This article will look at five aspects that might increase your efficiency within your business. Search Engine Optimization. Effective Marketing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. The leadership team often sees HR as a constraint on their operations or not effectively serving their needs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 17, 2023

To explore how collaborative leadership works in practice, we talked to Emma Bould CMgr FCMI, who has spent her career in engineering leadership roles. The amount of leadership training you get in the military is huge ,” she says, “because when you’re placed in an operational role, you have to perform.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at some of the things you should know and do if you want to be truly successful with dropshipping. Then, consider hiring an expert to help you increase your visibility on search engines by using various techniques like link building through content marketing. Some Niches are Toxic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Chris Edmonds : Cornell University professor Dr. Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In a recent article , I wrote about some research suggesting that might not always be the case, and it’s a narrative countered, however, by a second study , from Stanford, which suggests that teams that operated virtually were actually less creative than their peers who collaborated in person.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore six effective steps that can help you prevent fraud and ensure the security of your business operations. Regularly update software and educate employees about phishing emails and other social engineering tactics.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2021

What are hard skills and how to highlight this aspect when applying for a new job or job change are what we will cover in this article. We have already covered what soft skills are at the beginning of the article—these cover communication, empathy, and leadership traits. So what scores over the other? Marketing and sales skills.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2021

This article aims to highlight why exactly you want to provide a great customer service experience and what the benefits will be if you do. One of the main benefits of having a brilliant customer service operation is that customers who are pleased with their experience are far more likely to buy more than customers who are not.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 21, 2021

The session was focused on operational and tactical issues. With these highly technical leaders (many are engineers), there’s likely to be lots of picking fly specks out of the pepper. Planning and budgeting focus on maximizing capital and operational dollars. Nap by PowerPoint. How do you know?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent article , I charted the way in which Sweden utilized the possibilities presented by the widespread adoption of electrical energy to transform its economy and itself as a country. Swedish company Alight have been working to help encourage larger companies to utilize solar energy to power their operations. Solar as a service.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

After developing a clear strategy and setting its direction throughout the organization, we quickly evaluated our operations and moved to reorganize around the client into one company. I’m an engineer by training, and through my experience have seen that systems work, when practiced regularly and planned purposefully.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Continue reading this article as we talk about dental marketing and the strategies you should use to get customers. Now that you’re getting attention from the search engines, you need to be sure they are going to a website that commands trust. Rank Your Business in the Search Engines (SEO). Create a Trustworthy Website.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 24, 2020

A Reel Leadership Article I recently posited a question on Facebook. More times than not, we can operate in this mindset. As the ship was moving, Max killed the engines and told David to fly. He turns on the engines and begins to fly the spaceship. I wanted to see what everyone’s top ten 1980’s movies were.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Quite the contrary, they are built for ongoing operations. They are built to be performance engines. A well-run performance engine is the master of many challenges. Innovation requires experimentation: the performance engine demands efficiency. Innovation sometimes fails; the performance engine struggles to forgive.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2020

Businesses, from large corporations and MNCs to small companies and startups, are forced to make significant operational and structural changes. In this article, we will discuss the potential benefits co-working spaces can draw from the ongoing pandemic and recession. GDPs are plummeting, and unemployment rates are rising worldwide.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

My article was about the significance of anniversaries as important milestones. My articles reflect the Big Picture of Business. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Digest of Take-Aways From 36 Articles.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

In the wake of two fatal crashes of Boeing’s new 737 Max jets, Harvard Business School professor and author of a new book on creating psychological safety in the workplace, Amy Edmondson, published an article on Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up. It is nothing less than a full organizational culture change.”

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 10, 2017

We spend 6 months optimizing the finance department and move onto engineering. As I’ve written in an earlier article for Inc. In most cases, these programs are driven on a case-by-case basis, though. That type of approach is too slow!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. What is the best way to approach this challenge?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. How can you attack this problem?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2018

Research indicates that 6/10 consumers expect brands to have some form of online content, whether those companies operate on a local or global scale. Your Business Will Show Up In Search Engines. For advice on improving your website ranking, read this Forbes article. Your Business Can Operate 24/7.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the case of the machine operator, manual labor and routine tasks are most likely to be automated, while management, team-building, employee training and production supervision may now find themselves moved into priority roles. Another way to look at automation is as a time-creation engine: automation manufactures time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In this article, we’re going to discuss why you should place your business in the online world, even if you’re just starting up. If you prefer to operate a traditional business in brick-and-mortar, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. You can operate solo (sole proprietorship), or with partners (LLC or corporation).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and principal of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC. He has authored or co-authored over 75 articles and book chapters and ten books.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

He argued that far from some form of miraculous perpetual motion machine that would deliver economic growth in perpetuity, the engines of our economy need a constant flow of new innovations in order to thrive.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

To compete online, you must implement effective SEO tactics to rank higher than your direct and indirect rivals in the search engines. Companies who want to rank highly in the search engines must write and publish quality content on a regular basis. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs. CEOs must not overlook the intricacies of genAI costs.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2016

A technical communicator’s contribution to an organization is often hidden in the background of business operations and goes unrecognized by both the employer and even the end-user – the specific target audience of the business and technical documentation. Lastly, add a few tags to your page regarding the content and publish.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

The relationship combines StrategyDriven’s leading experience in asset lifecycle management and regulatory services with NTE Solutions’ capabilities in all aspects of power development, from engineering to commercialization. Asset management and operational programs improvement. Risk management and compliance. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Engineering Work Management. No related articles.

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