Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Enterprise social collaboration is a way for organizations to leverage social tools to improve employee engagement, bolster productivity and tap into a company’s collective intelligence. You just finished reading The Top 5 Ways Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Boost Organizational Productivity ! About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Many organizations confuse the occasional ‘lightning strike’ of a new idea or product innovation with having a culture that fosters innovation. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.” Ironically, this only kills productivity in the long run. About the Author.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. The Incredibles, Bird and Walker’s first project at Pixar, was a homerun. The artists and technologists rebelled and started acting disrespectfully to production managers.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Guest Post by Grayce Belvedere Young, president of the Organization Development Practice at Prouty Project (learn more about Grayce at the end of this post). Or if another team member says he wants to deepen his financial acumen, consider involving him in the 2013 budgeting process.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Degenerative or unproductive moods are tremendous, yet invisible, killers of productivity and profitability. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Mood is everything.

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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. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability. Their infrastructure, morale, manufacturing capacity, and international relations were all destroyed.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. The atmosphere was so calm.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. I’m stepping away from my email to finish this project. Why does this matter? I’ll be back in one hour).

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. Delegating these tasks to employees allows managers to focus on improving company morale and advancing workplace projects. The Product Management Perspective: Compelling products (or services) create success.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem. Your product doesn’t have to be a Bentley, Hublot, or a Stradivarius.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 9, 2014

Their team had been saddled with NCAA sanctions after the 2012 season, and was unable to participate in the 2013 tournament. Maybe you have to wait on a supervisor’s signature to okay the next phase of your project. But for others – for those who have PATIENCE – the eventual payoff can be tremendous.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Improvement is not a product. In teams and projects, doing what is right (and actually doing it) is more important than proving who is right. June 2012: Leading Projects: Balancing Rational with Emotion. As a project manager, you can make that happen only when you focus on the emotional aspect as much as the rational one.

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QAspire

JANUARY 11, 2016

In this 2013 HBR video (6.42 Real Influence is a By-Product. Leading in a complex world is almost like a tight rope walk and leaders cannot afford to have singular focus on either task or relationship. They have to constantly strike a balance between needs of the context, their own needs and the needs of others.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2013

The first weeks of 2013 were barely out of the gate when one industry analyst was already predicting that Big Data would be Time magazine’s 2013 “Person of the Year.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. An examination of Big Data and its role in the next generation digital experience for marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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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. Consider leaving a comment!

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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. 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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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines. Have fun! *. Will I see you there? David Grossman.

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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. Consider leaving a comment!

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 3, 2015

The average number of internal emails per mailbox per week at Atos dropped from 100 in 2011 to under 40 by 2013, according to an Atos report posted on the company’s website. The zero email project evolved after the company realized the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails. “My

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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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2013

Office cliques can affect workplace culture in a variety of ways.according to nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder from May 14 to June 5, 2013, among a representative sample of nearly 3,000 full-time, private sector U.S. What do Workers do to Fit In? Related articles. Barriers to Career Advancement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

When we mismanage relationships, the fall-out affects productivity and quite possibly our ability to advance. Your success at work depends on your ability to set the kinds of boundaries that encourage mutual respect and keep the focus on productivity. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Express Yourself.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

As an alternate solution, why not take a ‘production’ approach to the issue and look at your organization from a value-adding standpoint. 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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Here are 4 assumptions that can get in the way of making great decisions.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. Earlier this year, as part of an online summit taking place in January 2016, I invited 26 bestselling science and productivity writers to share their insights for achieving top performance. But where do we start? Own your time. Recognize busyness as a lack of focus.

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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?”. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? Are we measuring things right? Are we measuring the right things? But what are these right measurements?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

“This partnership will create out-of-the-box products and provide advisory services that enable healthcare organizations, both large and small, to rapidly achieve cost effective compliance with the ACA’s mandates while simultaneously driving improved patient care.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. Nor, for the most part, do they care.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Almost every day we read about a CEO ouster, a logo change that backfires, or a product launch that fails to live up to its hype. Valuable time is wasted discussing mundane and pointless subjects that don’t impact the overall success of the project. If metrics are used, they drive the wrong behaviors.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. I’m increasing my speed of writing productivity by more than 50%, while still maintaining perfect thought flow and expression. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. Ever-mindful, laser-focused, bright light.

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