Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Some examples from all three could include leading a new project, supporting a project on another team (or a joint team), doing a rotational assignment, attending a seminar, joining a professional association or networking group, completing a new certification, becoming a board member for a non-profit in your industry, or reading a book.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2013

The first weeks of 2013 were barely out of the gate when one industry analyst was already predicting that Big Data would be Time magazine’s 2013 “Person of the Year.” But what about companies with smaller staffs and budgets? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

In fact, in slower economic times or sales periods, organizational leaders often find themselves in situations that require the reduction of discretionary budgets and resources while trying to maintain throughput and organizational expertise. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Examples could include leading a new project, supporting a project on another team (or a joint team), doing a rotational assignment, attending a seminar, joining a professional association or networking group, completing a new certification, becoming a board member for a non-profit in your industry, or reading a book. Michael Hyatt.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2013

It seems that it’s virtually impossible for IT management to meet all business demands with current budgets, resources, and approaches. According to Gartner and other analyst reports: 80%-85% of IT budgets are spent just “Keeping the Lights On” (KTLO). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2013

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Resource Projection Warning Flag 1 – Assumed Discretionary Effort. Budget Management Warning Flag 1 – Across the Board Cuts. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Utility industry executives and managers face unprecedented challenges associated with aging assets, evolving regulations, and increasing budget pressures,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. “By Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. These pitfalls are caused by wrongly held beliefs. The presenting issue is the real issue.”.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever before. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Inflate budgets. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever before. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Companies generate value when these commitments are clear and crisp and are fulfilled on time, on budget, and as scoped. But when the commitments are unclear, late, over budget, or scaled up or down, companies generate waste (what we call “coordination waste”). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2013

Manage projects; from setting scope and selecting a team to delivering on-time, on-budget results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Identify employee motivators; delegating for development and coaching for superior performance. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

Manage projects; from setting scope and selecting a team to delivering on-time, on-budget results. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Identify employee motivators; delegating for development and coaching for superior performance. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

2012 can be the last year you forget if you make 2013 the year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. What would it mean to work smarter with Evernote in 2013? October: Starting a new project? December: You're ready when the word goes out that there's some leftover budget.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If your budget was created for economic headwinds, then now is the time to revisit your assumptions. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Here's an example: January: Focus on your top goals for the year by setting up an Evernote notebook for each of your major projects or areas of responsibility. This will be a lot easier if you've used a single tag like "deliverable" or "highlight" to flag any note you used to summarize a major project or draft a significant deliverable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. IT management Leadership Project management' billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s hedge funds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Especially as it relates to their actual experience and their projected needs. Talk to the person who MAKES the budget, not the person who spends it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Request that the people who actually use the product or service you’re selling be more involved in the selection process.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. A Budget Does Not A Strategy Make! About the Author. Craig Casselberry is the founder and president of Austin-based Quorum Public Affairs, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Were you misled by the data?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Consider the following impacts of sequestration on Federal health agencies and activities: Cuts to the FY13 budget: $1.71 Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08 Cuts to 2013 budget : $209 Million or 5%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Go well beyond job descriptions.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

When I reach Peak Ping — a sense that I don’t have room for yet another request without sacrificing my sanity or my strategic projects — I take a moment to focus on what matters most, and remind myself that I don’t have to fly solo in my day-to-day work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The world's two most significant economies will both benefit from a swift and sensible resolution of the current federal budget crisis in Washington. The Chinese want stability in America. They want to see the U.S. market growing. They want to sell the U.S. And they want to be able to continue investing in U.S. currency and U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. They brought in 2000 people, a dozen projects, a couple of Big Data and content analytics tools, and a consulting unit (outside of IBM Global Services ). So how does it work?

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue.

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Training Company Metrics Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The early campaigns on Kickstarter ran a long gauntlet — creators had to budget days into their campaign to cover the Kickstarter approval process. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. Full disclosure: I have written for The Atlantic.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A previous McKinsey study also identified another barrier : women aren''t given as many high-profile, big budget, or international assignments as their male peers. These are the developmental projects that put talented women on the path to the C-Suite. When women act more feminine, we don''t see them as leaders. We can address it.

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McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Many universities manage billions in research funding, but there is usually no R&D budget for their own product, namely delivering education to willing buyers. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. Aggressive supply-side reforms. By also pursuing other concrete opportunities (e.g.,

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Are timing, budget, and resourcing consistent with what is required for a successful outcome? Performance alignment.

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