Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

For decades, Mike has served in senior leadership roles within the Power & Utilities Industry. His experience includes within the nuclear oversight, quality assurance, engineering, licensing, performance benchmarking and improvement, training, leadership development, and change management functions.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. Goals will also give you benchmarks against which you can monitor progress. Thanks for your comment Ava!

Learning-by-Doing 41

Learning-by-Doing Media Blog Technology 41

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

Blog 373

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 373

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Mentorship and leadership development. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Philosophy. He has advised two U.S.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Benchmarking. Going downtown to do all of your shopping. Drive-in movies. Stores closed on Sundays.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter. Gain senior leadership support. The team also analyzed patient-pain scores during the hospital stay and attempted to access data on patient-reported pain and functionality, both pre-and post-operatively.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” In achievement-oriented domains, women rate themselves no lower than their male counterparts in leadership-related dimensions.

Self-aware 11

Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Document Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 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. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8