The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Shocking headlines emerged in 2013 when households across the UK proclaimed broadband access to be more important to them than water. For some it was regarded as an absurd statement, but new research from the University of Birmingham argues that free internet access should be regarded as a fundamental human right. A considerable challenge.

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Wireless Library Globalization Information Technology 59

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. First, it’s a leader’s responsibility to protect the people he or she leads from pursuing excellence at all costs and it’s irresponsible to do otherwise. He identifies three reasons.

Competitive Advantage 285

Competitive Advantage Film Creativity Open-book 285

Steve Farber

DECEMBER 24, 2012

What if you could give someone a really special gift that would cost you no money at all? And what if that no-cost gift could significantly change another’s life? You can give YOURSELF as a “gift” to someone you love by taking that person on as your Greater Than Yourself (GTY) Project. Well, you could and it will.

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Download Mentor Commitment Project 69

Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kickstarter lets you see featured projects in your area so you can connect with local companies or those across the world. Some of their current projects include “The Best Asthma App” and “Travel Grants for Patients”. With no cost to try many of these sites, business owners and entrepreneurs looking for cash should give it a try.

Due Diligence 164

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Guidelines Licensing 164

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem. Michael is a website designer who works on many high profile online projects.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

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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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 64

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. These employees are costing their employer’s money in lost time and resources. Delegating these tasks to employees allows managers to focus on improving company morale and advancing workplace projects.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

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. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

Transportation 58

Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

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. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

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.

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Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2013

42% of the initial cost of an application is spent year after year to maintain it. Download this eBook to learn how IT management in enterprise companies is dealing with the issues and costs of application maintenance. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Backlogs are compounding annually at a rate of 10%-20%.

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Resources Innovation eBook Management 50

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.

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Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Will they come back for more with cost-effective prompting, and will they tell their influence circles about the breadth and depth of their fine experience? Projects are always short. and his first book, This Is Rage: A Novel of Silicon Valley and Other Madness , was published in 2013 by The Story Plant.

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Productivity Products Succession Team 150

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. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

Tactics 58

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

leaderCommunicator

MARCH 3, 2015

The average number of internal emails per mailbox per week at Atos dropped from 100 in 2011 to under 40 by 2013, according to an Atos report posted on the company’s website. The zero email project evolved after the company realized the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails. “My

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Ryan Technology Globalization Document 60

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

In the past, SRM has been focused on lowering costs while maximizing quality, leading to a ‘relationship’ that is either managerial or, at worst, adversarial. Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management. This eBook provides strategic approaches to building and maintaining lasting relationships.

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Supply Chain Resources eBook Competitive Advantage 50

leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Many factors may conspire, in varying combinations, to prevent such external exchanges: An ingrown culture which simply prevents the option from being considered.

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Company Conference Cooper How To 137

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Tactics 50

Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

Women gaining more power to lead, green-light projects, and innovate does not come at the expense of men. Feminists and sticklers for correctness at all costs may decry some of the tactics suggested, but all is fair in the boardroom wars. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013.

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Books Entrepreneur Leadership Advice 105

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

“Healthcare industry leaders must find cost effective ways to meet the new quality assurance and performance improvement mandates of the Affordable Care Act,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

Industry 58

Industry Chief Executive Officer Compliance Quality 58

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. In the case of Kohl’s, the hypothesis to be tested was straightforward: Opening stores an hour later to reduce operating costs will not lead to a significant drop in sales.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2013 is days away. Up your caring quotient: Instead of trying to reduce the cost of the sale, increase your level of caring. Become someone that is hard to ignore: If you bring something really relevant AND valuable compared to available alternatives, it will cost them more to ignore you than it costs to engage with you.

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Stress Short-term Storytelling Long-term 75

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, I do realize that given the current economic environment and cost cutting – especially around training unfortunately – some of these companies may have their programs on hold or scaled back to fewer numbers of attendees.). She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

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.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

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.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. Inflate budgets.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

StrategyDriven released Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents , a white paper revealing how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through the cost effective adaptation of key aspects of the U.S. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 61

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Nevertheless, the downside to locating in traditional startup hubs is becoming more apparent in recent years. About the Author.

Company 51

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

In fact, more than 21 million Americans are depressed, according to Mental Health America , costing U.S. We at the Human Potential Project are not naïve dreamers who think the transition to this new way of working will happen on its own or overnight. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

Productivity 71

Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

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.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

His mega-star success as a performing artist has come as a consequence of, and not at a cost to, his investments in his family, his community, and his private self. In 2013 he published Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Wharton Digital Press). Springsteen is a teacher.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The vast majority of companies are blind to this underlying phenomenon and have no means to intervene other than to cut costs, declare new rules and processes, or reorganize – none of which will make a difference. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being the founder of an innovative product or service requires holistic thinking, taking into account all aspects of what makes a new venture successful—from its value proposition to the customer (user), product development, technologies, cost to deliver, performance metrics and finally to getting the resources needed for implementation.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Health Costs Are Actually Not Spiraling Out of Control (PwC). PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In fact, Gallup reports that employee disengagement costs American companies about $350 billion annually. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This means they are unhappy with their organizations, emotionally disconnected from their workplaces, and less likely to be productive. Mood is everything. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At all costs, avoid "You''re too young to."”. In this post I’ll share 3 misconceptions entrepreneurs and business leaders should be aware when starting a company but also when starting a bigger project. You''ve heard of "speed dating"?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249