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

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.

Operations 50

Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. For the sake of speed, they assemble the “usual suspects” or the department’s “high potentials”.

Leadership 285

Leadership Kotter Consensus Diversity 285

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

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

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.

Transportation 58

Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

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.

Tactics 63

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 63

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. Consider leaving a comment!

Tactics 58

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

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

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Link Metrics to Strategy – The metrics need to show how work impacts the company’s strategy. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things?

Metrics 51

Metrics Process BPM KPI 51

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

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. This project risk may by itself exceed the normal level of organizational risk leaders are accustomed to dealing with. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Risk Management 65

Risk Management Resources Management Benchmarking 65

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

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

How do emotions shape strategy making? 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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Thinking Through the Strategies. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Our strategy to address the crisis was three-fold. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 75

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 75

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. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Productivity 63

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

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. Set a limit on the amount of time you spend beyond the hours needed to complete projects. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Competitive Advantage 58

Competitive Advantage Bottom-up Airlines Project 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Energy 56

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 56

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. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. I was retained to come in and analyze the strategy and structure of the KFC corporation, asked to recommend changes and improvements.

Franchising 61

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 61

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

By assessing current state conditions for the existence of these underlying challenges during the organizational performance measure system development/upgrade project, leaders position themselves to mitigate these risks. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Every organization’s circumstances are unique.

System 72

System Metrics KPI Document 72

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. When I read it, I thought, well, there’s something here that’s tingling my spider senses.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. Alston, the UN Study). Research: World-wide eco-anxiety on the rise. It is hilarious.

How To 107

How To Bond Positioning Stress 107

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. On the other, they acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to operate above the political fray. Let planning trump politics. Make politics less personal.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. How Google manages.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

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

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project. Win on merit.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But first they require a better understanding of the “jobs” diaspora members are trying to do when they re-engage with their home country or culture, and need to align their strategies to fulfill them. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. Why does the diaspora matter?

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 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