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.

Chief Operating Officer 62

Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

Given the intensity of the cloud marketplace today, it seems incredible to countenance that Amazon largely had the market to themselves for a number of years, before the likes of Azure launched in 2010. leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022. leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022.

Globalization 121

Globalization Marketing Case Study Project 121

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. It makes for a great dramatic series, but when it happens to the organization that you’re a part of, it’s much less entertaining.

Competitive Advantage 267

Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

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.

Human Resources 153

Human Resources Talent Management Motivation Analysis 153

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?

Organization 59

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 59

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. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” The younger workforce presents challenges as well. And that would be a good thing. * * *.

Decentralization 284

Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

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.

Core Competence 100

Core Competence Brand Reference Objective 100

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.

Leadership Development 265

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. Are good ideas ruining the effectiveness of your team or organization? This can be all the more true for government, non-profit, and ministry organizations, who are rewarded not in dollars earned for products/services but for meeting what can often be vague or changing objectives. by Nathan Magnuson.

Creativity 223

Creativity Mentor Follow-up Objective 223

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.

Long-term 100

Long-term Download CEO Objective 100

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S.

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

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. About StrategyDriven.

Wireless 59

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

Resources 50

Resources KPI Strategy White Paper 50

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.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Risk management and compliance.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 19, 2013

Amongst the most widely deployed business applications today, Sales Force Automation (SFA) offers a goldmine of operational sales data, yet built-in reporting and analytics are oftentimes inadequate to answer meaningful questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Resources 50

Resources Webinar Newsletter Engineering 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Organizations which thrive on customer transactions to generate revenues rely on data automation software to preserve their data integrity.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Aligning what is delivered with what is marketed is also important and something Southwest does well. Other airlines market as if they will provide what Singapore Airlines does and provides a miserable experience instead. His market is to provide great service to those customers willing to pay.

Airlines 40

Airlines Class Price System 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. Start-ups tend to be anti-fragile; large, successful organizations tend to be fragile. Most successful organizations do not like volatility, randomness, uncertainty, disorder, errors, stressors, and chaos. and in its home market in the U.K.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

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

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

Politics 13

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. Take this one organization layer at a time and start asking who the toxic people are. You know the US market well, as do your people, because it is your only market, even though you are pretty sure your product could be applied internationally. You couldn’t be more wrong.

Price 92

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

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. SHRM reports that 84% of organizations use social media for recruiting, and 82% of them use it primarily in the hunt for passive candidates. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. 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.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. million in VC funding in the past few weeks, has organized itself as a public-benefit corporation with a charter that says it will never accept advertising. WordPress operates as an open-source ecosystem with a venture-backed corporation, Automattic , at its heart.

Marketing 9

Marketing IPO Venture Capitalist Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy?

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. “It should be within the very DNA of the organization.”

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborate with colleagues within department and represent department across entire organization. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. Whole Foods Market in the U.S.

Report 10

Report Franchising Analysis Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9