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. Michelle Seiler Tucker Recently, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale?

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Exit Strategy How To Entrepreneur Strategy 65

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. Michelle Seiler Tucker Today, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale?

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Exit Strategy Strategy Operations Entrepreneur 65

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. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. Using an online recruitment package allows job applicants to be automatically narrowed down via a system of pre-screening questions. Quality Pre-Screening.

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Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 63

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. But our individual success is not what we care most about. He thought that was how you led people – how one gained recognition and success.

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Goal Motivation Learning-by-Doing CEO 171

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

During this time, we raised the quality systems and actual performance to allow exports of Australian-made Nissans to Japan. I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. Related articles.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The Top Brain, Bottom Brain theory predicts that people fit into one of four groups, based on their typical use of the two brain systems. Depending on the degree to which a person uses the top and bottom systems in optional ways, he or she will operate in one of four cognitive modes: Mover, Perceiver, Stimulator and Adaptor.

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Bottom-up Self-aware System Operations 84

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. Consider leaving a comment!

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

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. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

This will “flatten the curve ” and reduce the chances of overburdening our healthcare systems. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. More than 300 tests in China have shown success in these treatments with the coronavirus.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

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.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Successful project managers know that the success of their project hinges on the development of a solid plan, the diverse consideration of integration challenges, and the right evaluation of resources. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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Project Gantt Chart Management Constraint 58

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. Data integrity can become compromised intentionally, via cyber thievery, or as a result of system changes, human error, or natural causes.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

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

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Project Execution KPI Management 58

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Businesses that have a deep appreciation for what their customers, and potential customers, desire and that create systems to deliver solutions that delight those customers benefit greatly from that effort. And even within that system they can segment the offering a bit and create coach class, business class and first class.

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Airlines Class Price System 40

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. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. We redesigned the national subsidy system and put the country on a better economic path. Turbulence.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

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?”. Relate Articles: Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 22 – Use a Multidiscipline Team to Develop the Performance Measurement System.

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Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

But, after a period of success, that plant manager was promoted and the new plant manager, essentially hit the “undo” button on all of the Deming stuff. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The experiential, highly interactive course included intensive exploration and training in 4 core Masteries: Personal Mastery, Interpersonal Mastery, Team Mastery and Culture and Systems Mastery. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Then make notes about past accomplishments that clearly demonstrate your successes in those areas. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Unflappable during crises.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Refreshingly direct and right to the point, this system is based on 12 years of research and thousands of sales prospect interviews. Design a Prospect Debrief Questionnaire Step 5.

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 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.

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Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

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.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

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Price Decentralization Long-term CEO 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Many large, successful organizations are more fragile than they seem. In his book Antifragile , Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes how some systems, such as biological ones, gain from disorder. Anti-fragile systems love randomness and uncertainty; going beyond resilience or robustness, they get stronger with stress and volatility.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Organizational performance measurement systems are complex constructs that significantly impact leadership decisions, employee behaviors, and management processes and systems. Acceptance of a new or upgraded performance monitoring system centers on metric and report accuracy. Consequently, they misinterpret reports and metrics.

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System Metrics KPI Document 72

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Unicorns operate in industries with big, entrenched incumbents, but they’re able to grow quickly by focusing on a good—sometimes big—idea. One of the most successful unicorns to date is Dropbox, the online file sharing and storage space company founded in 2007.

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IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They had a fuller discussion in 2013–2014 — around the time when media reports of the illicit behavior first surfaced. Stumpf testified that he personally became aware in 2013 when, after two years of ineffective solutions within the business unit, the volume of fake accounts was still increasing.

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Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 10

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. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To determine the best approach to using ICT for development (or ICT4D, as it’s sometimes called), Huawei recently interviewed 150 telecom operators, government bodies, regulators, NGOs, and social enterprises in 11 countries. This approach consigns many ICT4D projects and tech startups alike to failure.

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Technology Globalization Project System 8