Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

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. Online and Outage Work Management. About StrategyDriven.

Wireless 59

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

At the end of a particularly long and grueling strategy meeting with the executive team of a major consumer services business, Alan, the chief executive officer, turned to me and said, “Living quarter by quarter is madness, but in a few years’ time people will laugh at us for developing three-year plans.” He was right. and Aimia Inc.

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Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management. Complimentary Resource – 8 Content Marketing Mistakes to Avoid. Complimentary Resource – Summer 2013 Mood Tracker Report: Empowering Employees to Improve Performance. Complimentary Resource – Marketing Analytics Worksheet.

Supply Chain 50

Supply Chain Resources eBook Competitive Advantage 50

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.”

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. “We are delighted to welcome Greg to StrategyDriven as our Chief Operations Officer,” says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC President and Chief Executive Officer.

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Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

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. Corrective action programs. Organizational performance monitoring programs. Risk assurance programs.

Industry 59

Industry Chief Executive Officer Compliance Quality 59

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.

Management 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? Suppressing Innovation.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Especially as it relates to their actual experience and their projected needs. CAUTION: The bidding process is often tightly controlled by those who execute it. The only people likely to influence change of modification are C-level executives. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

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.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. As we spoke to them, Mansfield and his team shared five insights on how to work with senior management to get strategy-stretching innovations to market: 1.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

” asked the Scandinavian executive. Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. “Where are the stores?”

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

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. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution. About the Author.

Company 52

Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. 1 form of self-expression.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As uncertainty is increasing and competition is becoming more fierce, executives need to have a broader understanding of competition itself in order to sustain an edge. Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward.

Stress 10

Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” An idea is certainly a promising start, but executing it while holding down a busy fulltime job is undoubtedly a challenge. ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

we are contending with wave after wave of jobs moving overseas, markets that whip up and down, and energy prices rising at an unprecedented rate. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the U.S., Declaring a mission. Making alliances. Creating followership. Managing the action cycle. About the Author.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Charisma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? Then came the next wave, external social business, rooted in customer service, corporate marketing, and communications. the few marketers who manage corporate social media accounts) to mobilizing the many (i.e.,

Media 12

Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 12

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

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Other senior executives have left as well. GE is hardly the only company to run into performance issues and sooner-than-expected executive departures in the midst of a huge digital transformation effort. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Let’s look at how a couple of job hunters I’ve worked with, an administrative assistant and a C-suite executive, translated their notes into effective résumés. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. into multiple global markets. Go well beyond job descriptions. Expand from U.S.

COO 12

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. ” Develop: Let them improvise.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception. Together, they understand labor market trends and instructional design, which can inform a company’s strategy to “build” or “buy” talent. The thing is, the labor markets and relevant skills vary widely from function to function.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. currency and U.S.

GDP 15

GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

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. In other words, successful scaling means finding ways to limit the number of things that people are expected to focus on and execute. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

In some cases, the excitement generated by the salesperson's initial 30,000 foot sales pitch to senior executives didn't motivate meaningful follow-up from the lower level personnel of the customer's organization. They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. In the past few weeks, a cannabis-focused private equity firm hired a former DEA agent and a publicly traded marijuana company brought on a former executive at Yahoo and Microsoft as its president. The list goes on. medical marijuana sales hit an estimated $1.5

Industry 9

Industry Retail Banking Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nevertheless, Smithsonian magazine reports, KFC managed to create a marketing campaign — Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii! The secret to the campaign’s staying power, suggests Ogilvy and Mather Japan’s executive director, Yasuyuki Katagi, is that, year after year, the message is always the same: “At Christmas you eat — chicken.”.

Power 8

Power ROI Magazine Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Upgrade skills.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It might even be better for older executives than recent grads. Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. 1: Millennials love to gig.

Quinn 9

Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 9