Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

Management 70

Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Failing to emphasize training. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Perform informal market research. Educate the public about what your company and your industry do. Train booth attendants for show duty. Introduce new products.

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Most corporate leaders are two management styles behind.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

But after a number of processes are selected with this ‘whoever is interested’ approach, leaders and process Improvement practitioners see that it would make sense to select processes that are underperforming, would provide increases in market share and revenue, or would directly support key strategic initiatives.

Process 58

Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Consumers are under-educated and don’t know the substance of a pioneer. Administrators, at all levels, need to be properly trained as such, not bumped up from the field to do something for which they have no inclination. Early formal education is but a starting point. Few will understand you. None will do it as well.

Mentor 50

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. ” Benjamin Franklin. ” Bertrand Russell.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years. Feeding, clothing, sheltering, educating and inspiring the needy. This series will have three more to come.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Companies have long been required to issue audited financial statements for the benefit of financial markets and other stakeholders. It is reasonable to anticipate that emerging regulations might be met with market pull for services involving algorithmic accountability. We have a proposal for a good place to start: auditing.

Ethics 13

Ethics Report System Sample 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? This result could, of course, be explained by many things other than the educational background of the CEO. If this is the case, then the correlation we observed is merely a coincidence.

CEO 8

CEO Accrual Accounting Pharmaceuticals Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. This is especially true in supply chain risk management, although those high-profile one-off events do not necessarily represent the largest portion of risks that should be addressed regularly by supply chain managers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The program, approved by the judge, consisted of TV and newspaper apology statements, plus the assurance that safety-environmental training would be provided to employees. Secondly, we initiated safety training that expanded to help home owners avoid accidents. Finally comes Crisis Training. Educate them of your activities.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

is spent on education, which is the key to avoiding mistakes on the front end. Thus, a declining overall level of education in our society and serious challenges faced by organizations in training the workforce. Retaining good employees, involving training, motivation and incentives, is yet another matter. Yet, only 5.1%

Budgeting 83

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 83

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Poor controls over risk and valuations. Manipulation of energy markets. It means “process mapping” the myriad business functions; assessing business, legal and ethical risks at various points; mitigating that risk through education, checks and balances; and ensuring that problems are discovered early and handled promptly.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Learn to manage change, rather than become a victim of it.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

A few Middle Eastern rulers are trying this tack, changing ministers and investing in things that people want before internal dissent gets out of hand — in essence, upgrading their product before losing market position. Putting off actions until disaster strikes makes it too late. This is how a losing streak begins in any system.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Investors who have flooded the cybersecurity market in search for the next software “unicorn” have yet to realize that when it comes to a risk as complex as this one, there is no panacea — certainly not one that depends on technology alone. When we say all employees have to be risk agile, we mean all.

Training 10

Training Supply Chain Agility Risk Management 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Every organization must educate outside publics about what they do… and how they do it. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Marketing Program. Sales support.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But there are ways to reduce risks. At the helm of HootSuite, a social media management tool for companies, I've learned that common sense, a little training and the right technology go a long way. Offer basic social media education. Retreating from social media means ceding a significant competitive advantage.

Media 16

Media Company Competitive Advantage Follow-up 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

But there are ways to reduce risks. At the helm of HootSuite, a social media management tool for companies, I've learned that common sense, a little training and the right technology go a long way. Offer basic social media education. Retreating from social media means ceding a significant competitive advantage.

Media 8

Media Company Competitive Advantage Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. This appeared to point to a serious deficit in quality followership in Africa, one that meant a dearth of vital managerial talent.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 16