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

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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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2013

All organizations face a host of risks incurred during the conduct of day-to-day business operations and stakeholder interactions. Effective risk management optimizes the cost of risk monitoring and mitigation with the expense incurred should the event occur. Focus of the Risk Management Topic. Principles. Best Practices.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. When reading the news these days, I sometimes wonder if we have completely forgotten the tenets these titans used to shape American industry.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2013

Each organization faces a unique set of risks challenging the continuity of its operations. In order for an organization’s leaders to economically manage their business’s risks, they must first understand each risk’s inherent and residual value. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. To help monitor and manage these risks, most organizations employ groups providing performance and compliance risk assurance so that significantly adverse consequences are avoided. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In many ways, it seems like something of a no brainer for the sector to target emissions, as making their operations more efficient has productivity benefits as well as environmental ones. This narrative was further explored in a recent study that also set to take into account things like energy prices alongside the quality of management.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation. You just finished reading Risk Management Warning Flag 1 - Unadjusted Resourcing of Risk Monitoring Activities ! All rights reserved.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2013

Today’s industrial and office workplace environments present many hazards. Inspecting the jobsite and taking preemptive mitigating action can reduce an organization’s healthcare, equipment repair and replacement, lost operational productivity, and warranty defect correction costs. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

When Black and his team created the Consumer Bill of Rights, it felt scary and risky to break the mold in an industry known for less than warm and friendly debt collection practices. I believe Encore’s runaway success was directly tied to this shift in management philosophy and culture. They began humanizing their customers.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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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. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed Senior Reactor Operator. Nathan joined INPO from PSEG’s Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station where he stood watch as a U.S.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

Co-authors Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal and Scot Park, Artower Principal, released a new white paper on organizational alignment and performance improvement for the healthcare industry. Download a copy of Aligning Healthcare Organizations : Lessons in improved Quality and Efficiency from the Nuclear Power Industry by clicking here.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses. It was immediately launched.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

How do we create the future while managing the present? The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner James M.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Her vision has lead IBM to venture into innovative management systems, ones that empower the employees and facilitate continuous learning through technology. The tech industry was undergoing a massive shift about six years ago. The HR Digest: What skills do the global HR managers of the future need to acquire?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Conflict needs to be managed, measured, and meaningful. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 Your manufacturing manager has been producing your widgets for what seems like forever. But be sure he is an expert in your particular industry.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Marketing & Sales branding business management lessons learned marketing and sales Steve Blue strategydriven' About the Author.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You’re not going to have the opportunity to respond, and you will be crushed and maybe crushed very quickly, depending on what industry you’re in and what other kinds of natural models there are that slow things down or speed things up in that industry. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. You (or someone else in your company) should commit to writing about key topics and insights in your business and / or industry. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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