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

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Contemporary information systems are blind to many of the key drivers of productivity and have consistently failed in their quest to integrate the diverse operations of a company. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 5 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. Fossil fuel subsidies are hugely important, as they amounted to nearly $5 trillion around the world in 2013, or 6.5% Driving change.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published last year showed that the price of solar fell by an incredible 82% between 2010 and 2019, with these advances drastically improving the energy gained from each panel, with the energy cost now extremely competitive against all other forms of electricity production.

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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. Weak people or products then leads to weak profits.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In other words, in our pursuit to create meaning through our shared efforts, we need to ensure that we’re creating value not just for our customers or shareholders, but also for our employees, if not also for the community in which we operate. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s

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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. Weak people or products then leads to weak profits.

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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. Weak people or products then leads to weak profits.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

With thanks to Tom Rath for the simple organizational framework he offered in his 2013 book, Eat, Move, Sleep , here are some best practices in each of those categories that I learned in doing the research for my own book, Overworked and Overwhelmed and how you can leverage them in our current operating environment.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. These operational managers' value to Mars is they initiate or design positive changes.

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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. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 !

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. We are no longer living in that world.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

The huge e-commerce presence operated by Amazon required intensive server and processing capabilities, and it was this “inside-out innovation” that Amazon has largely deployed not just with AWS but with services like Marketplace and fulfillment, where a core capability developed before being offered commercially to others in the market.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. General Business'

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

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. business Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts attention expectations focus perception performance productivity'

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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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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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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 8:30am-12:00pm. Problem solvers are required to quickly provide solutions to increasingly complex problems, develop and design new and innovative products and processes – and at the same time, reduce operating time and costs. Event Information.

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CO2

JUNE 24, 2013

The Tribal Leadership authors believe that 25% of teams operate at Stage Two. This is a significant drain on talent and productivity within the workforce. Gallup finds even more alarming data in their 2013 report on employee engagement: State of the American Workplace. Long-term performance isn’t sustainable, however.

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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. About the Author.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

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. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

And, the operating budget has climbed from $38M to $178M. HPU was named a 2013 Green College in The Princeton Review. We are interested in the product. We are more interested in the product of the product,” Dr. Qubein told us. “We Retention has skyrocketed and SAT scores have jumped 55 points on average.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

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. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services. Or, big execution. Need a tangible? Your website.

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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. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author.

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. 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. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. by Nathan Magnuson.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. This has made the once-fabled unicorn a much more frequent sight, with recent valuations hitting the frothy heights of 40-50 times revenue. trillion at the time of writing.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. As an alternate solution, why not take a ‘production’ approach to the issue and look at your organization from a value-adding standpoint. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. And it’s meant to be hard.

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Leadership Motivation Teamwork Globalization 279

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

Alden Mills, a SEAL teammate of mine, demonstrated the power of failing forward fast in a big way when he launched his hugely successful Perfect Pushup product. I recall playing with his first product, the Body Rev, as we evaluated it to sell at NavySEALs.com. I couldn’t figure out how to use the darn thing. Alden had raised $1.5

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2013

Such consistency promotes the error-free performance necessary for high-risk and high-quality operations. However, the use of procedures slows progress and limits productivity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2013

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 10, 2012

A couple summers ago I had the incredible opportunity to attend a one week Dynamics of International Terrorism course with the Air Force Special Operations. © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. December 10, 2012. — 6 Comments. I’m still not sure how I had the good fortune to attend. Dan Miller.

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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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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. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. About the Author.

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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.

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