Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Experience Gathering – Circumstances within and outside your control caused the projects to fail. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Learns constructively from trial and error. Grooming – The team let you down.

Succession 82

Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 82

Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Fast forward to November 17, 2014, when she was the featured guest on my favorite podcast, I Love Marketing. No one operates in a vacuum. You need positive relationships to get things done, whether it’s running your own business, leading a team, or tackling a challenging project. I was impressed.

Power 84

Power Diversity Content System 84

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Set Clear, Specific Goals – Starting a BPM Project successfully means creating a Project Charter with the Process Owner, Executive Sponsor, Project Lead and Team Facilitator. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Limit the Number of Measures – I say limit it to two or three.

Metrics 52

Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

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. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. When you add baseline data to a Macro Map, you visualize the criteria that the organization has chosen to use to prioritize their projects. that could influence the choice of one project or another. A Macro Map can help.

Process 58

Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

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 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. Consider leaving a comment!

Energy 77

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 77

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S Employers will need to optimize their workflow to examine those tasks that are repetitive, necessary, strategic or project-based.

Brand 66

Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

There is one best way to get big projects done. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Enter a coalition.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. This means more of us are operating in more contexts, more of the time.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Mayo 8

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. Thus, two leaders operating with different sets of distinctions may come to widely varying interpretations of the future based on the same factual evidence. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Chief Executive Officer 51

Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 51

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

3% of those polled (57 million individuals at the time of the study) admitted to intentionally ramming another vehicle (AAA 2014). Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. Develop a Positive Culture. Alston, the UN Study). Research: World-wide eco-anxiety on the rise. It is hilarious.

How To 106

How To Bond Positioning Stress 106

Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2014

Can you recognize the early warning signals that derail a business process improvement project? Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. Starting with a project that requires a different culture than the organization currently has.

Project 58

Project BPM Critical Success Factor Process 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

To use a sports analogy, you’re not going to ever be a really great tennis player unless you stop relying on your forehand (your strength) so that you can develop your backhand, which is inherently weaker. We all need to develop skills that don’t come naturally. Call it baptism by fire. Greater diversity of perspectives.

Company 8

Company Learning-by-Doing Human Capital Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions.

Policies 9

Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Frequently cited is the 2014 Deloitte study that found that “up to 87% of America’s workforce is not able to contribute to their full potential because they don’t have passion for their work.” Developing others toward their passions requires a mindset shift. Adopt a servant leader’s mindset.

Servant Leader 8

Servant Leader Greenleaf How To Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

When Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy, a Chinese solar cell-maker and power-generator, missed an interest payment on its bonds in February 2014, the Chinese government didn’t intervene. Housing prices fell by around 60% over the next two years, and many developers went broke. Five, don’t worry much about real estate projects in China.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Bond Banking Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. The innovation agenda. More than 600 were selected. Extending the network. The dual-speed model needs a new mindset.

Innovation 11

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

To start, consider the figure below, “Performance since 2008,” a quarter-by-quarter time-series plot of results on a variable of interest (for example, it could be sales of a particular item, estimated resources to complete a certain project, etc). There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.” They are not.

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture. Not so fast.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

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.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. To reverse this trend, we need to simplify the ways we approach innovation in 2014 – by better defining what it is (and isn’t), what it takes to carry it out, and what is needed to enable truly new thinking to thrive.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

from 2012 to 2014. Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Slack make entrepreneurial self-organization around a project or a prototype faster, simpler and cheaper. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Insight Center.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. We call it slow innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

(Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.). But, for example, our research found that oil and gas only made up 11% of Nigeria’s GDP in 2014, compared with 20% for construction.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

A 2014 IMF study illustrates that extreme inequality is self-defeating as it slows down economic growth and insights from behavioral economics show that it damages employee morale and productivity, while large executive bonuses have presented PR nightmares for the companies that award them. Today, Zhengfei himself holds only 1.4%

Case Study 8

Case Study ESOP Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Through coaching, she learned to project a powerful demeanor that was genuine and compelling. Because organizations are increasingly focusing on early talent development to attract and retain young talent, it’s important to understand the best way to accelerate their growth as leaders.

Execution 14

Execution 360-Degree Feedback Executive Coaching Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

And the impact will occur in the next 24 to 36 months, based on the following data and projections: Let's start with Internet access. billion initiative to build a country-wide fiber optic network that will connect an additional 160 million Indians by 2014. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While many managers were developing new products and services for their own businesses, they were not leveraging innovation across the enterprise, and some were relying too much on acquisitions to drive both innovation and growth. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. Even HR itself agrees.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11