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. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. The ''Wastes'' of Execution: Overproduction !

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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. “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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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. You just finished reading StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum !

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2013

Operational Risk Management : How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Click here for more information on Operational Risk Management : How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Consider leaving a comment!

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

By Patricia Lenkov , Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning'

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2013

Most managers would acknowledge that the use of efficient metrics is a key component to the successful planning, tracking, and execution of projects. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. All rights reserved.

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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

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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. You can read more on mastering this difficult balancing act in the Hay Group 2013 Best Companies for Leadership study.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Robertson enterprise architecture Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Future of the CIO Role Futurist versus Archivist Harvard Business Review Press How to become a CIO "for all seasons" IT and Business Paradox Jeanne W.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. General Business'

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Getting back to Target, major kudos to the board for having excellent operational experience. By Patricia Lenkov. And massive it was! CEO’s abound on this board. But where is the technology savvy?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

Resolving those conflicts with a win-win mindset can unlock untold dividends in the form of a shared sense of purpose and commitment according to "EGO FREE LEADERSHIP: Ending the unconscious habits that hijack your business" , by business executive Brandon Black and executive coach Shayne Hughes.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

During the past six of the fourteen years I’ve been an executive coach and leadership educator, my observation is that my clients are generally more stressed each year than they were the year before. Let’s say we have a roomful of 100 corporate executives and managers. The following is a guest piece by Scott Eblin.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 26, 2016

mpg of a 2013 Ford Fusion HYBRID over 27,500 miles. . Car executives contend cheap gasoline lowers demand for more efficient vehicles needed to meet an ultimate fleet target of 54.3 mpg to April 2016 at 25.2 Our personal family average mpg experience is: 27.4 mpg of a 2008 Ford Escape SUV HYBRID over 135,000 miles and 39.7

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. Related articles.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

In terms of spending clients’ time – my personal coaching clients’ are all executives whose decisions impact billions of dollars – their time is more valuable than mine. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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CO2

JUNE 24, 2013

The Tribal Leadership authors believe that 25% of teams operate at Stage Two. Gallup finds even more alarming data in their 2013 report on employee engagement: State of the American Workplace. Executive Coaching' Long-term performance isn’t sustainable, however.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Short-term Long-term 111

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2015

Nonetheless, sheer size provides huge economies of scale throughout their operation, especially in production, overheads, distribution and marketing. Then in 2013, the giant decided to divide the company into two autonomous entities – Kraft and Mondelez. .” Focus or Scale? To Shareholders, it Doesn’t Really Matter.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Transforming an organization while keeping day-to-day operations running is like fixing a car as it is being driven; it’s complicated, risky, and it’s not clear whether the team can pull it off. For each change, leaders must define it, create a vision of the post-change world, and mobilize their teams to make it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 19, 2014

The Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog is now operational. In both 2011 and 2013, I was recognized as one of the top ten Most Influential Business Thinkers in the World – and the top-ranked executive coach – at the biennial Thinkers50 Award ceremony in London. New videos will be posted once a week for the next 50 weeks.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market?

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Understanding and executing a proven sales process makes all the difference in face-to-face or virtual selling. Most salespeople fail because they don't understand the impact of their personalities on the person at the other end of the call.and.they are blindly 'winging it' by operating without a proven sales process methodology.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

Or, big execution. If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. Need a tangible? Your website. Thinking like a big company means losing the generic template, outdated fonts and bland copy.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Their success is a byproduct of bold goals meticulously planned and deliberately executed. When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in early 2013 he immediately showed the world his leadership style would be different than those before him. Admittedly, I wasn’t for a very long time.

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Commitment Mentor Examples Compliance 419

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.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many chief executives and corporate boards recognize they need to alter or even drastically reshape their corporate culture, but few follow through and benefit from the successful transformation they envisioned. Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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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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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Effective performance improvement programs promote alignment of business operations with the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals. Such programs consistently identify opportunities to improve high value-adding operations and to eliminate low value-adding activities. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Continuous performance improvement requires focus on both near-term operational priorities and long-term strategic capabilities and initiatives. A well-planned self-assessment calendar provides numerous coordination and resourcing benefits to the self-assessment program manager/group and operational business groups. About the Author.

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Organizational Behavior Long-term Document Newsletter 60

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “Many of today’s significant industrial accidents are preventable, the byproduct of human errors made when safety was subordinated to other priorities,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Download the white paper by clicking here.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

However, is a good Gantt chart that is predicated on simply coordinating activities (steps) with the proper float and interdependencies adequate to ensure the successful execution phase of the project? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The text above is only a small portion of this article. All rights reserved.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. I wasn’t surprised in the least. Jeff Bezos thought so.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Depending on the degree to which a person uses the top and bottom systems in optional ways, he or she will operate in one of four cognitive modes: Mover, Perceiver, Stimulator and Adaptor. But they don''t make and execute grand plans. In business, they often form the backbone of an organization, carrying out essential operations.

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