In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. billion in sales) provides huge economies of scale throughout the operation, especially in production, fixed overheads, distribution and marketing. Human Resources. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership.

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. Our human resources department takes care of that. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Some companies succeed in their early stages because of raw energy. Just took a vacation. Learn to live with it.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Position your request as an investment, not a cost. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Base Budgets on Value… Not on Cost. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Cost containment. Human resources development. Goals release energy. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. You’re highly dedicated, talented, resourceful and give customers what they cannot really get elsewhere. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive.

Strategic Planning 56

Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. “So it’s important that American policy makers and American think-tanks can look at a model that costs a fraction of what they pay and see that it has similarly good outcomes.” at high cost. salary levels.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. By streamlining store complexity, the team was also able to slash the retailer’s supply chain costs by 20 percent.

Retail 11

Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Roy was well aware of the cost and disruption of a termination. Using the worksheet to quantify the factors in a termination decision can help you evaluate the costs and benefits of individuals’ performance, their impact on team dynamics, and bottom-line results.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Resources Reputation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

How do they understand the need to change and create the energy and urgency around it? GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence.

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Cost containment. Human resources development. Goals release energy. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Most management subsystems succeed or fail according to the clarity of goals of the overall organization. How to Find Goals: Examine problems. Study the organization’s core business.

Goal 50

Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise.

Company 8

Company Long-term System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

The status quo in many healthcare institutions is to put the doctors in charge of running the operation. Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training.

Health Care 8

Health Care System ROI Analysis 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Brand-building is a function that business leaders, owners, and general managers – the people responsible for the culture, core operations, and customer experiences of an organization – must drive. Forming and running a brand council requires a significant investment of time and energy by executives who already have very full plates.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Meister, a founding partner of Future Workplace, a human resources consultancy and the coauthor of The 2020 Workplace. Generation-based employee affinity groups are a waste of time and energy, he adds. Then “use that information to look critically at your human resources and business strategies. Don’t.

Management 9

Management Mentor Human Resources Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The HTA would significantly improve the likelihood of achieving the “Triple Aim” — better care for individuals, better health for populations, and lower per capita cost — by employing these five strategies: 1. These zero-sum annual negotiations do not lead to the best care at the lowest cost.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. One estimate of the annual cost of medication noncompliance in the United States pegs it at a hefty $289 billion. Think of the colleges that are increasingly able to identify students at risk of dropping out and intervene before they do.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Nuclear reactors melted down, disrupting the national grid, reversing energy policies as far away as Germany, and contaminating a part of Japan for generations to come. In combat, the fact that someone is actively trying to disrupt your operation changes the calculation. This was not a new lesson, at least to the armed forces.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 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.” Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. Linking feedback systems allows companies to enlist frontline employees as agents of change.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

The company has promoted a culture of health for more than 30 years, with countless peer-reviewed studies showing that employees’ health has improved and company costs have been contained. A workplace health promotion program cannot be imposed on workers as yet another management cost-containment initiative. Asking for help.

Planning 8

Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. Is “above average” training really worth the time, energy and expense? That scares me. They are self-motivators.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. In fact, few of us do.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8