Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 8, 2013

The foundation is projected to touch the lives of 50,000 children by 2014. For example, research labs, universities, primary and secondary schools, and consulting firms. Off the field, Dalton and his wife Jordan run a foundation that helps seriously ill and physically challenged children and families in the greater Cincinnati area.

Motivation 326

Motivation Supply Chain Workshop Learning-by-Doing 326

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. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Resources Management Benchmarking 66

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 14, 2016

Guest post by Karissa Thacker What is your current specific self-improvement project? I have taken a coaching tip from Mark Zuckerberg, the boy wonder and CEO of Facebook, and have committed myself to one self-improvement project for this entire year. In 2013, he met someone new every day. Is it specific? Is it measurable?

Commitment 120

Commitment Project Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 120

Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2016

A bit about me: I am presently managing a technical team of what are essentially technically oriented project managers (and she shares her very powerful work history and accomplishments). I really enjoyed it, and it’s definitely given me some new ways to think about what I do as a manager.” FREE WEBINAR.

Power 180

Power Webinar Learning-by-Doing CEO 180

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! I wish I could mentor everyone who applied.

Disruptive Innovation 70

Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A visual progress chart of team project. The project-team uses post-it notes to write the tasks in succinct language. Consulting & Coaching a Management team, we created this 4 x 4 Goal (what-by-when) matrix. Looking forward to meeting and working with your team and leaders in 2013.

Team Building 136

Team Building Team SWOT Leadership 136

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

Operations 50

Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

They use expensive consultants for everything they do. Get a consultant on board, preferable a firm with a good reputation, and launch a new strategy. If things still don’t improve, blame it on the consultant. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 21, 2013

January 21, 2013. Telemachus consults Mentor. A friend and I are working on some independent projects, so I got to make a couple calls to “mentors” of mine who have been there and got some great input. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader.

Mentor 225

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Audience 225

Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. While there, he oversaw multi-$100+ million nuclear and non-nuclear lifecycle maintenance projects for the U.S. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Chief Operating Officer 62

Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Nathan joined INPO from PSEG’s Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station where he stood watch as a U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

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?”. Make Metrics Visible and Accessible – Having workers, managers, supervisors, and executives see metrics helps employees make decisions and take action.

Metrics 52

Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Ajay Kaul, managing partner at AgreeYa Solutions , brings over 25 years of experience in sales, staffing, and IT project management for clients throughout the world. Prior to founding AgreeYa, Ajay was responsible for managing engagements for Deloitte Consulting, serving private and public sector clients.

Productivity 86

Productivity Products Learning Curve Media 86

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Artower Advisory Services, LLC partner to provide healthcare industry executives and managers with Affordable Care Act mandated Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program consulting services. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Corrective action programs.

Industry 58

Industry Chief Executive Officer Compliance Quality 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to establish a successful internal consulting group.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

In August 2013, for example, Amazon acquired The Washington Post. It’s not a ‘road map’ that you need to deliver your strategy, but a ‘nautical chart.’. Following the acquisition, Bezos wrote to the staff of The Post about the purchase and what they could expect.

Long-term 50

Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Mark Ingwer is a business psychologist and the founding partner of Insight Consulting Group, a global marketing and strategy consultancy specializing in consumer and business insights. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Project Management Best Practice 1 – The Project Management Intensity Continuum.

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done?

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay. A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage.

Consultative 8

Consultative Competitive Advantage Long-term Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Managing Change : Because technology is constantly evolving, it is imperative that companies – especially IT organizations – adapt these new technologies and build an expertise around them.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

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. Resource Management Warning Flag 3 – Marginalizing Employee Contributions. Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Advisor’s Corner – When Should Consultants Be Used?

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Early in your career — whether it’s in banking, law, consulting or accounting — you will discover that all of your colleagues are as smart and hard working as you. How talent management is changing. So in order to be successful you will need to be self-aware, flexible, and open to new ideas, projects, and people.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Consultative Self-aware Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research?

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door?

Management 8

Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion worldwide.

Team 14

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk. The future looked bright.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

as of 2013, there were 2.6 Access to an “on call,” paid alumni consulting pool to cover parental leaves, special short term projects, and other on-demand work opportunities. With the large numbers of returning professionals and other career transitioner populations (e.g. million women in the U.S.

Career 8

Career Short-term Follow-up Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions. Administrivia.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. One big barrier to implementation is the incessant noise around big data from consultants, vendors, and the media. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head?

ROI 9

ROI Maturity How To CRM 9

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.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

It acquired social-software maker blueKiwi and combined the acquired company’s application with two from Microsoft, creating a platform that allows individuals and teams, including those in partners and clients, to enter virtual “communities” where they can collaborate on complex projects. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

Banking 10

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

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?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14