Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Now, businesses were using gamification, which we define as game-inspired tactics to engage people, often with similarly powerful results. Now, businesses were using gamification, which we define as game-inspired tactics to engage people, often with similarly powerful results. However, the […].

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. It''s rich with real-world examples and tactical guidance. Author Bill McBean has spent nearly 40 years as a successful business owner. His advice? I couldn''t put this book down.

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Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead.

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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. Or, big execution. Need a tangible? Your website. Thinking like a big company means losing the generic template, outdated fonts and bland copy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2013

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

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Management Tactics Tools Document 61

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

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Whole Business Thinking – A Guide To Exceptional Business Performance. by Robert S.

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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. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? Tactical Execution Best Practice 7a – Are You Thinking Lean?

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

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. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

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.

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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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You are missing clues, haven’t developed a wide network, and operate more like individual contributor than a leader. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Blame others for outcomes. Consider leaving a comment!

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

To remain innovative we need to have a workforce that mirrors the world we operate in. On the tactical front, we’ve found that our WFA policies have been enormously beneficial to our diverse recruitment efforts so we’re continuing to build on those results.

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Development Globalization Diversity Maturity 59

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. We can provide the entrepreneurs with access to early adopter customers in the 170 countries in which we operate. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

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.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As first described in a 2013 Harvard Business Review article, Vanderbilt’s Otolaryngology program developed a 4-year program for residents consisting of Naval ROTC topics, public speaking training, a micro-MBA course, and a capstone leadership project. And several programs stand out as examples of how this can be done.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Nor was Uber alone in realizing that expensive taxi medallions were unnecessary for prebooked trips — a tactic already used by other entrepreneurs in many cities. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters. In those respects, Uber was much like what incumbents had and where they were headed. But that is not enough.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 12

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.

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Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Retail Loyalty Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. These advisers are assisting customers seven days a week, averaging 16 operational hours per day, adding up to an average of more than 6,000 monthly interactions on both an in-market pre-sale and customer care basis. We’ve come a long way. Keep it simple.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Despite prominent calls to action, and despite digital’s ubiquity in the press and in many discussions of strategy and tactics across organizational functions, it appears that boards are still not seeing the value of digital. years in 2013 from 60.3 According to recent research , it appears not. This is disturbing.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

On March 15, 2013, World Consumer Rights Day, CCTV aired a special report criticizing Apple’s i-Phone customer service policy in China for providing only a one-year warranty when Chinese law mandates two. In October 2013, an incident involving Starbucks unfolded, when CCTV aired a segment “exposing” its relatively higher prices in China.

Media 8

Media Report Brand Price 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. It is structured so that you can thoughtfully and tactically look at each of these areas to see where you can better prepare yourself. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Organizations operate 7x24x52, work is done across organizational boundaries, and value creation is more a function of the right people, resources and ideas coming together at the right time and in the right place. Define Your Strategy. IT management'

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. IT management'

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

During an intensive 8-week pilot, each team was trained and then it analyzed the cost structure of one function and recommended cost reduction tactics. Resetting a health system’s cost structure also implies greater centralization and standardization, which goes against the grain of local facility leaders and clinicians.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive. We asked ourselves: What could we do differently?

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. Perhaps the source of the problem is that it’s not clear when a brand should be euthanized. Profitability isn’t a useful metric.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S. by Hank Moore.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. Thus, lawsuits flew in the company’s face.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the 1980s, Bridgestone Tire Company purchased Firestone.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Truth is that throughout the 1950’s (the Golden Age of Television), there were comparable live TV extravaganzas on the air every night of the decade. by Hank Moore. Consider leaving a comment!

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. by Hank Moore.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72