Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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. Tactical Execution Best Practice 7 – Target Non-Value-Adding Work to Improve Efficiency.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.”

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In our rush to ‘modernize’ everything and make our enterprises more efficient, we have mistakenly come to believe that information is our most valuable commodity. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations. Silent Killer #4: Worship of Information.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

It improves the use of resources and efficiencies. In addition, onboarding can become more efficient with a faster learning curve established for new employees. 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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings 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.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change.

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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.”.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Oversee resource allocation and budgeting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

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. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

The partnership has been a triumph of efficiency — a win-win for the cultural climate of Judson and often-stretched student bank accounts. Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., And they force us to redefine what it means to be efficient — and human.

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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. The skill is learning how to delegate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. At times, I’ve been critical about the sometimes-loose definition of what GE “counts” as an ecomagination project (making oil sands production a bit cleaner, really?).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

By spreading tasks out among a broader group of younger analysts (they hired 14% more new analysts for 2014 than they did for 2013), and asking managers to take the time to explain more clearly upfront what they really need them to do, Goldman says it can create a saner and more efficient workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S. Firms need to identify ways of allying these concerns early on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. How do you design a hospital?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

We can filter out the background noise, like marine life, and listen only to things we want”, explains Fabian Dawson, sales manager from GE Measurement and Control. Taken together, they will tell you what the efficiency is.” Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. The transitional model (from 1993 – 2006): This phase kicked off with the International Space Station project. The work was distributed: NASA ISS program managers led the effort at the operational level and worked with international counterparts to implement the program.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Follow a methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Greece has only managed to wrest the four-month extension of a stability program. in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% An alternate way forward may be to use higher government spending to assist vulnerable people, to lend to business, and to execute projects that inject money into the economy. in 2012; 5.4%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology will only be able to deliver on its promise of moving TV dollars online if it creates greater process efficiencies, drives more commerce, and enables deeper engagement with consumers. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. Open ecosystems will succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%. Get a coach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 The management of R&D projects will become more difficult and less efficient as the movement of personnel between firms’ U.S. It turns out that the U.S. is a major home for Arab inventors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". In reality, both views were right. In his November newsletter , he demonstrated exactly how much of a drag on the U.S.

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