Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

But a recent Chart Your Course International project led by Greg Smith and Patricio Porras not only achieved success for Riverside Auto Group but outlined a blueprint that virtually every company can follow when trying to change its culture. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. How can you attack this problem?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. The company manages Indian Hills Country Club and The Georgian Club in Marietta, and acquired Woodland Hills Golf Course in Cartersville in February 2013.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. This project risk may by itself exceed the normal level of organizational risk leaders are accustomed to dealing with. The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. 1) Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project Spring Tracking Survey 2013. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P., Badger J.M.,

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Project development and management.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Futren Corporation is a private-club management and operations company with around 200 employees, based in Marietta, Ga. The company manages Indian Hills Country Club and The Georgian Club in Marietta, and acquired Woodland Hills Golf Course in Cartersville in February 2013.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

The entrepreneur takes risks but does not see himself as a risktaker, because he operates under the useful delusion that what he''s attempting is not risky. Hirschman said, "This sentence admirably epitomizes several of the histories of economic development projects in recent decades. Related articles. This is just a "look."

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Be warned, toxic people don’t like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. Set a limit on the amount of time you spend beyond the hours needed to complete projects. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

By assessing current state conditions for the existence of these underlying challenges during the organizational performance measure system development/upgrade project, leaders position themselves to mitigate these risks. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Additional Resources. Enterprise Performance Measurement.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony. .”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. This article was written in one hour, just before the impending deadline. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

’ There are two kinds of world view attitudes people project in the world—those who think and act through the lens of abundance, and those who think and act through a lens of scarcity. You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. Blame others for outcomes.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

This article is about: Lessons that I learned to last a lifetime. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Corporate cultures depend upon real-time conditions, projected outcomes and policies that promote steady growth.). The year was 1959.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. We wanted to make sure we gave enough in the article to get people interested in the book, but we obviously didn’t want to give away everything good in the article. That’s sort of what the article did. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Having acknowledged the ambiguity built into our methods, we will refer to “Arab inventors” throughout this article. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 especially those with R&D operations. It turns out that the U.S. Of the total U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Some residency programs across the country are developing career tracks specifically for those interested in management and leadership careers, but these paths are often targeted towards individuals explicitly seeking management positions or healthcare management projects in their training, missing the fact that to be a physician is to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Initiated contact with Director, staff, students, and faculty to minimize disruption of department’s operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The figure at the end of this article gives an idea of what companies might report as a start. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

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