Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This project risk may by itself exceed the normal level of organizational risk leaders are accustomed to dealing with. All rights reserved.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Resources Management Benchmarking 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. Well-conceived risk management dashboards aid oversight organizations including internal audit, management oversight, and compliance groups, in monitoring the organization’s overall risk profile and risk-based operational performance.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Management Compliance Benchmarking 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Project Organization Management 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.”

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups. Benchmark all the economies for which reliable data are available.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Benchmarking was a key feature of President Clinton's effort at Reinventing Government. Pew's January 2013 poll drives this point home — their survey found that a mere 26% of Americans trust the government in Washington to do the right thing just about always or most of the time.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. One of its boldest moves was the 2013 acquisition of The Climate Corporation, which was founded by two former Google engineers who built on 30 years of free government weather data to help underwrite weather-related risks.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Case in point: Ford is planning to introduce at least five new models after seeing a 33% increase in sales in the first half of 2013 in Nigeria.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. Business education Collaboration Decision making'

Senge 8

Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Banner’s leaders used its G&A success to extend the optimization program to its clinical operations, starting with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, the system’s flagship teaching hospital in Phoenix. Vision before action.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In 2013, only 8% of the companies in this annual benchmarking survey received a top grade from their customers — and that''s a pathetically low number in comparison to the amount of professed innovation in the industry. Ground innovations in the business model.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Benchmarking the progress made and communicate it outside the community. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 59

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

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.”

Self-aware 11

Self-aware Chief Operating Officer Document Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment). Financial leverage (assets over equity).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 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.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8