Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Strategy 95

Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 95

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

A strategic plan is a living document developed and maintained through an ongoing, continuous process. It is used to identify, document and oversee all of the strategic, tactical and operational-related initiatives underway (and intended to be done) within an enterprise in order to achieve its vision. Consider leaving a comment!

Budgeting 87

Budgeting Strategic Planning Strategy Document 87

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Develop a mission statement. Develop the vision statement. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Clarify management values. Consider leaving a comment!

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Actions are always required. Good intentions and political correctness are not enough. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Diversity 91

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 91

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. Her programs are based on a unique 3-PEAT method of modeling processes and analyzing data that accelerates operational improvements, and builds leaders and employees who sustain operational excellence. A Macro Map can help.

Process 58

Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Her programs are based on a unique 3-PEAT method of modeling processes and analyzing data that accelerates operational improvements, and builds leaders and employees who sustain operational excellence. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Metrics 52

Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2014

Otherwise, you’ll end up with different versions of the sales data or data silos will develop on separate hard drives that result in only certain employees having access to information that everyone needs. Bill Carey is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Siber Systems Inc., About the Author. All rights reserved.

Strategy 58

Strategy Directory System Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Energy 78

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 78

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Successful leaders in Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations and Medical Scientific Liaison positions will use their resumes to market themselves as cross-functional leaders that have made an impact across many aspects of the business—not just the scientific areas. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Tactics 52

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

Find certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Businesses or those operating in areas designated as Historically Underutilized Business zones (HUBZone) within related industries and connect with them to pursue contract awards within these categories.

Open-book 58

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The waterfall methodology was a classic approach used for software development. Jeff Winsper is President of Winsper , an independent business and marketing consulting firm that helps marketing organizations to evolve into operating like a business. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

However, the full name didn’t have the same meaning as it once did, so we changed one word that encapsulates aspects of our culture, our operating philosophy, and our service to our customers: “Ingenuity.” Bezos’ ambitions were as large as the company name, and he eventually developed a business model that would include far more than books.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

This means a leader must be well informed about emerging trends and developments in multiple areas that affect the business. Grounded in his or her interpretation of where things appear to be headed, an effective leader creates a vision for the organization’s competitive strategy – paving the way for long-term competitive domination.

Chief Executive Officer 52

Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

well above April 2014's 81.7 And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates. Transparency Translates.

Crisis 50

Crisis Strategy Brand Telemarketing 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. Because they are so accessible, it is very difficult to generate competitive advantage from any of them. But guess what? Insight Center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. By bringing them into their ecosystems, the larger competitive firms help instill management and operational best practices, and can accelerate and encourage technology adoption.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. Finance. “GE

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. 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. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

You need to look at costs as strategic investments that ultimately drive growth: which costs, if cut, would actually destroy shareholder value by diminishing growth or competitive advantage? Take the time to reassess your company’s path to value creation.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Some of Facebook’s biggest markets are in the developing world, and Facebook is experiencing its fastest growth in Asia and Africa. In the U.S.,

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Offer professional-development opportunities. She breaks down the operational and human resource decisions that make this possible in her HBR article and book The Good Jobs Strategy. Other low-cost retailers, from Costco to Trader Joe’s, have also shown that raising wages can create a competitive advantage.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. Soon after receiving their assessments, each cohort attended a two-day retreat, with the first one in August 2014 near our Michigan headquarters. After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Their goal is to make accounting, simple.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Companies need these practical hacktivists to dream up new ways to meet the needs of consumers who require customization on demand and to outpace competitors in an era when competitive advantage is often fleeting. And yet too many companies pass over the problems and the corporate hackers trying to solve them.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Business development. Developing communications as a vital tool of business and life. This stymies employees’ professional development and hampers company productivity. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Communication.

Strategy 98

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 98

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Business development. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. Training and development of people. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Big Picture.

Budgeting 84

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 84

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Business development. Develop systems to execute the program, communicating at every step to publics. Developing the means for self-determination. No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Body of Knowledge.

Franchising 74

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. That’s life.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

If there is no charter, stop and develop one. Her programs are based on a unique 3-PEAT method of modeling processes and analyzing data that accelerates operational improvements, and builds leaders and employees who sustain operational excellence. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Project 58

Project BPM Critical Success Factor Process 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 30, 2014

This can be done at the application level (piecemeal and less secure) or at the operating system level (total and more secure). Thus, the multi-persona is not merely a solution to BYOD, but a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Risk Management 63

Risk Management Competitive Advantage Tactics Download 63

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Business development. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Balanced Scorecard 74

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

This new style in soccer was first experimented with by FC Barcelona manager Laureano Ruiz, who called it rondos, and between 1988 and 1996, Johan Cruyff built on it to develop the concept of futball total , or total football. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8