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. All rights reserved.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. A second paper, from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), highlights how corporate venturing can help organizations to survive the pandemic.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 19, 2014

With more than 150,000 copies sold, “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,” Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith’s classic guide to successfully combining these two interrelated roles has proven to be deeply influential among professionals in virtually every industry and leadership role. Life is good.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Arguably no technology is changing job functions within organizations more than analytics. All rights reserved.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) Appropriate and carefully selected and strategic change at the top can do much to resuscitate an organization. Throughout all this I cannot help but ask what seems to be a fundamental underlying question about this company, and that is, who should lead Dell going forward?

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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.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.”

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 2, 2014

The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Some say hackers broke into to the Target organization through the system of one of their suppliers, a seemingly innocuous HVAC company. Someone who understands enterprise technology systems and has managed decisions relating to them.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Guest post from Phil Buckley : Most leaders will lead their organizations through multiple big change projects. Constant change is a business reality and organizations must continually adapt to their environments to stay competitive or risk losing relevance and becoming obsolete.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. 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?

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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.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Beth (name changed) is a senior leader at one of our client organizations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. When a client or manager or CEO asks, What are we doing here folks? They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world. Survival depends on it.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2013

They establish the operations and initiative activities the organization will implement in order to achieve defined outcomes. See StrategyDriven article, The StrategyDriven Organization ). You just finished reading Strategic Planning - How Much Should Organizations Spend on Business Planning? ! All rights reserved.

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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. An organization can easily convince itself that as the project gets bigger, then so do the metrics. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. After the 2013 Yahoo data breach and the recent Equifax hack, operating without proper security measures in place is no longer acceptable. You start by organizing data into compartments based on the needs of the organization.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

Leadership always comes before management. Without this kind of leadership, effective management won''t exist; because managers don''t have the knowledge of what is important, what the expectations are, or what the leader''s definition of success is, to name just a few examples. Successful leadership is dictatorial in nature.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2015

For years management has failed to generate organic growth. 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.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. 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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Can you think of examples of excessive transportation waste within your organization? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What is the best way to approach this challenge?

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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. How can you attack this problem?

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Let’s say we have a roomful of 100 corporate executives and managers. Finally, I ask, “How many of you are operating in a constantly changing competitive environment?” Beginning with the Financial Crisis of 2008, most organizations have adopted a do more with less approach to their operations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Like many activities within any organization, “the squeaky wheels get the grease.” 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. That’s a big mistake. . I wasn’t surprised in the least.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

I believe Encore’s runaway success was directly tied to this shift in management philosophy and culture. Every person who steps up creates positive ripples throughout the organization – and, the more senior you are, the more impactful your behavior. Brandon Black retired as CEO and Director of Encore Capital Group in 2013.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. When considering approaches to search for inefficiencies within your organization, how should you begin? By focusing on the Non-Value Adding portions of your organization. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Also noteworthy this year was the numerous leadership awards and recognitions I’ve received, most notably being recognized by Inc Magazine both as one of their “ Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts ”, and just a few weeks ago as one of “ 100 Great Leadership Speakers ”.

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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

JULY 31, 2013

. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” Download the white paper by clicking here. About the Authors.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Meanwhile, one of my mentees, Sidney Kushner **, has been creating CCChampions , an organization that creates connections between professional athletes and children with cancer to provide a source of inspiration and excitement during a very trying time in children’s lives. Make this your year of the Law of Accelerating Returns.

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