The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Swedish company Alight have been working to help encourage larger companies to utilize solar energy to power their operations. The company, which was founded in 2013, currently has around 46 solar installations generating over 500 megawatts across Europe. Solar as a service. consumption. It’s estimated that around 3.5

Industry 97

Industry Power Energy Price 97

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Large capital projects represent a significant investment on the part of an organization and can therefore impact, either positively or negatively, the company’s financial position, if not its viability.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Project Organization Management 58

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

But a recent Chart Your Course International project led by Greg Smith and Patricio Porras not only achieved success for Riverside Auto Group but outlined a blueprint that virtually every company can follow when trying to change its culture. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

White Paper 100

White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. For the sake of speed, they assemble the “usual suspects” or the department’s “high potentials”.

Leadership 285

Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

It covers basic management, managing staff changes, managing projects, strategic thinking, hiring, delegating, and communication -- and lot''s more. In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. His advice? So, there you go.

Books 56

Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Resources Management Benchmarking 66

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

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

The relationship combines StrategyDriven’s leading experience in asset lifecycle management and regulatory services with NTE Solutions’ capabilities in all aspects of power development, from engineering to commercialization. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

Wireless 58

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

White Paper 62

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. The employee was forbidden to work on the project.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

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?”. Relate Articles: Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 22 – Use a Multidiscipline Team to Develop the Performance Measurement System.

Metrics 52

Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Shift Your Understanding. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Productivity 64

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). .”

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! Get to know others Develop a process to strengthen communication within and between departments Develop a process to strengthen collaboration (information sharing, best practices) within and between departments. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together.

Team Building 76

Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Investing in research and development helps to establish this culture and ensure the company will remain ahead of the curve. Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. About the Author.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. Develop a Positive Culture. Alston, the UN Study). They always…” or “They never …”.

How To 106

How To Bond Positioning Stress 106

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By developing an accurate view of, and aptly managing, one’s own emotional responses to situations, the rest of you skills and talents are magnified and leveraged. You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. Ask yourself, do I…? All rights reserved.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation. Modern Indentured Servitude.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

Training 13

Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. But a different development is emerging in the area traditionally known as CSR. So instead of using design to justify higher prices as most companies do, IKEA operates in exactly the opposite way.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question. Consider going under the radar.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. If it’s a Kickstarter kind of situation, they may be funding, actually, the development of the product before you’ve even put pen to paper. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

Execution 11

Execution Incentives How To Committee 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated.

CFO 12

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. Together, we can develop a tool kit that tech companies can use to create a more dynamic and inclusive industry. The numbers were grim.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8