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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

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. Online and Outage Work Management.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S.

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Rethinking the Work of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. It is a social function.

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Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. However, it is not just a matter of getting women to the very top ranks of management. The Netherlands, for example, initiated a temporary quota policy in 2013, though it lapsed last month. Yet in the U.S. of Japanese C-suite executives were women.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

You either go out and buy it, or you develop the talent you already have. Such loans have advantages for the lender: they accelerate player development and/or reduce costs by removing the salary of the loaned player from the lending club’s books. How do you get the talent you need? Both clubs realize a unique win-win.

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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Talent Management. ” CEOs also worried about whether their high potential employees were being properly developed. One area that proved especially challenging was mobility.

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