Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Our human resources department takes care of that. Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy. Just took a vacation. We just bought a piece of computer software.

Budgeting 79

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 79

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Cost containment. Human resources development. Goals release energy. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and ‘walk the talk’ About the Author. Portfolio analysis.

Strategic Planning 56

Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Inventory costs. Cost the benefits of the improved cash flows and diagram the improved work flows that contribute to them.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Cost containment. Human resources development. Goals release energy. When people know and have helped set their goals, their performance improves. The more that an organization is worth, the more worthy it becomes. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Portfolio analysis.

Goal 50

Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. A similar effect can happen when the goal of transparency is not only ethics but also other desired behavior.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” We grew faster than we thought we would.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8