Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges. Navy’s West Coast ballistic missile submarines.

Chief Operating Officer 62

Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. Partly due to the decline of corporate pension plans, mutual funds have grown widely popular and commonplace. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

Banking 8

Banking Hedge Asset Management Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. It was an ambitious but concrete plan.

Execution 9

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Pension fund trustees, many of whom are ordinary lay people with limited investment experience, are often intimidated by asset managers," a U.K.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Price wars have broken out in consumer industries around the world. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. And airlines are gearing up for a price war on trans-Atlantic routes as some low-cost carriers plan service between the U.S.

Price 10

Price Retail Discount Tactics 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

It has a “10-10-10” development approach, in which the goal is to build a rough cognitive application in 10 hours, customize it in 10 days, and go live within 10 weeks. acquisition), Apple (Siri), Microsoft (Cortana) and Facebook (Messenger Platform) all have platforms for developers to deploy their chatbots.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Subsidize Your Skill Development. Therefore, I volunteered so that I could gain experience in this new industry.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing.

Management 9

Management Software BPM Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. And some initiatives didn't work out as planned.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

In order to free up all the dry powder waiting for the right impact opportunity, the investment industry needs to help investors clearly articulate three guiding principles behind their investments: what kind of impact they want to have, how deep or broad their intended impact is, and the level of risk they are willing to accept.

Class 8

Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Gore and Associates, are leaders in their industries. The largest industrial federation of worker cooperatives in the world, Mondragon Corporation, is one of Spain’s top 10 multinationals, with about $13 billion in revenue from 105 cooperatives, and 75,000 employees stretching across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

ESOP 9

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 9