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.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Project Organization Management 58

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

But a recent Chart Your Course International project led by Greg Smith and Patricio Porras not only achieved success for Riverside Auto Group but outlined a blueprint that virtually every company can follow when trying to change its culture. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

White Paper 100

White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

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. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

Tactics 50

Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 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 58

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

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. Project development and management.

Energy 57

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

White Paper 60

White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 60

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources – all precious commodities in the workplace. Be warned, toxic people don’t like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. They want to operate where they are most comfortable.

Competitive Advantage 58

Competitive Advantage Bottom-up Airlines Project 58

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. For example, consider e-mail. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Productivity 63

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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. About the Author. All rights reserved.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. scrapped material, wasted movement, wasted time, and wasted resources) were invented in the traditions of the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing, and mass production. We are no longer living in that world.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

’ There are two kinds of world view attitudes people project in the world—those who think and act through the lens of abundance, and those who think and act through a lens of scarcity. You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. Blame others for outcomes.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Equally adept at managing people and operations. Unflappable during crises.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

On the face of it, that seems to be two entirely different markets, with Facebook at Work playing in the workplace productivity market (competing with the likes of Microsoft Office, Webex , and project management software) while LinkedIn is part of the headhunting industry. After all, Facebook’s $7.87 After all, Facebook’s $7.87

Business Model 8

Business Model Advertising Human Resources Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. More recently, Deloitte estimated that 30 to 40 percent of corporate FTEs are supplied by external resources.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Pre-sales Resources. Price versus Value.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

At times, I’ve been critical about the sometimes-loose definition of what GE “counts” as an ecomagination project (making oil sands production a bit cleaner, really?). Consider even the digital world and the rise of big data, which on the surface seems like a way to lighten our collective load on natural resources.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. One small business in Georgia continues to overcome these hurdles. Community outreach.

Strategy 133

Strategy White Paper Human Resources Case Study 133

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Companies are also experiencing risks in their manufacturing due to resource depletion – particularly water.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. Banking and payment processing are significant issues, and many businesses that handle marijuana directly have to operate as all-cash businesses.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Predictions are that 2013 will be even more active as companies that have stockpiled cash look to invest in new growth opportunities. The real issue was the extent to which the management team was willing to devote time and resources for training, documentation, communication, and all the other aspects of a major change effort.

Compliance 8

Compliance Resources Consultative Document 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. From the customer's standpoint, the cost of the salesperson's solution was prohibitive because the perceived value of the operational benefits did not justify the price. Pre-sales Resources. Price versus Value.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are investors in Planetary Resources, devoted to Asteroid mining. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. You look around at the resources that characterize China’s wealth, and see human talent that has to be among the most promising on the planet.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8