Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We provide innovative document management solutions using digital and microfilm technology. It’s these solutions that help our customers enhance their efficiency and productivity. Strategic Planning Objectives: Develop strategic plan for 2014+. Develop, update and refine plan through 2014.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2016

For sure, in the tech world, it’s hard to imagine success without quick and continuous technology improvement. The means to this end isn’t limited to technology breakthroughs. In-N-Out Burger keeps it simple in order to deliver a great product, quickly. In 2014, private labels generated $115 billion in sales, an increase of +2.5%

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Company Brand Competitive Advantage Retail 145

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Be aware in 2014 by @TomAsacker. Busy vs. Productive : 5 Ways to Focus on the Right Things via @katytynan. The Dark Side of Technology by John Hagel. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Mike Henry Sr: Humility : The 5th Sense of Character-based Leadership. link] by @tshnall.

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Festinger Servant Leader McKinsey Self-aware 251

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. Developing economies are yet to reach their full appetite for fossil fuels. The Green Revolution.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Preliminary results from a Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) survey at the 2014 ASTD Conference and Expo point to a big gap between what e-learners want and what they’re getting. Finding #3: Investments in technology and mobile learning are expected to rise . Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Competitive Advantage Survey Sample Reference 115

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2019

These include the following: Help Enhance Team Productivity. API Integration platforms are extremely effective in boosting productivity for members of the IT department, especially developers and coders. It helps develop stacks but also allows non-technical teams to manage and create APIs as well.

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Finance Technology Tools Insurance 57

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. Find more information about the event and survey results here. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

That may have been the way Google started out, and search is undoubtedly still at the core of Google’s business model, but judging from the company’s diverse and rapidly widening portfolio of products, services, and interests, Page would appear to view Google much more broadly. This is the essential point. Jeff Bezos gets this, too.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

With the end of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games on Sunday, many of us are now returning to our regular work routines and viewing habits, having a deeper appreciation for the world of sports and the power of the human spirit.

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Delegation Sports Motivation Long-term 277

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

One could certainly be forgiven for not recognizing such a picture, especially if you’re a regular reader of the technology press, which features a daily exposition of the vast sums being raised by startups around the world. in 1985 to 5.3% An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 94

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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Quality Health Care Case Study Education 70

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Lencioni Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

A strategic plan is a living document developed and maintained through an ongoing, continuous process. A strategic plan which charts how the firm will get from its current state to the achievement of its strategic vision is developed in the next step. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Budgeting Strategic Planning Strategy Document 86

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. Our products work with apps or without apps. That way, we’d reduce our SKUs (stock-keeping units), and as people discovered how wonderful the technology was, they’d be converted and spread the word.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Here are our top 10 expectations for China in 2014: 1. China’s leadership will ignite the capital economy, funding an aggressive growth program with major infrastructure investments to support urban development, including huge allotments for housing, schools, roads, and more. It will drive longevity and years of productive employment.

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Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. Then list the core products or services delivered by the department. Now identify the processes that produce the core products. Then identify the processes that support the delivery of the core products. A Macro Map can help.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. A telecom company developed a collaborative filtering model, similar in concept to predictive algorithms used by companies such as Netflix and Amazon, to help key account salespeople.

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Trends Technology Pharmaceuticals Team 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 3, 2017

Looking at the list of 10 leadership insights found below, it’s clear that many leaders are interested in learning how to develop stronger relationships with those under their care; that their focus is increasing on how to empower their employees to bring their full selves to the work they do.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Long-term Blog 260

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2014

An internship is an important part of your career development strategy. Develop a great cover letter. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Practices for Professionals executive recruiting harris allied Kathy Harris professional development professional internships strategydriven' All rights reserved.

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How To Competitive Advantage Open-book Career 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Ready… Set… Be productive. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 77

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

72% of all new products don’t meet their revenue targets. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Its foray into this industry comes on the heels of product entries by Google and Apple. The irony is that they are embracing an older payment technology to pave the way for new growth, new visibility, and new strategic wiggle room. The most pressing concern may be competition from companies other than device manufacturers.

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Technology Retail System Industry 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A recent Development Dimensions International study, Driving Workplace Performance through High-Quality Conversations: What leaders must do every day to be effective , reminds us in no uncertain terms, that leaders, peers and direct reports need to hold more effective conversations at work to receive more effective business performance.

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Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Long-term 51

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. In 2014 I will intensify the program and the process until there are 500 certified advisors globally. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2014

While technology gets a lot of blame, I suggest that, like any tool, technology can be used in positive or negative ways. Unable to facilitate a productive meeting/discussion. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What really matters is HOW we CHOOSE to communicate, and use our tools. keeping a record.

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Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Skills 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2014

Virtually every type of company generates valuable data that must be updated, retained and safeguarded, including ‘secret sauce’ information on company products, employee data and sensitive customer information. Bill Carey is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Siber Systems Inc., About the Author.

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Strategy Directory System Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of us hold principles that keep us from pursuing a more productive lifestyle. For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly. race cars] as an innovation test-bed for road cars.”

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Automotive Quality Productivity Products 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. Parents were patrons.

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Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. Today, about half the activities that people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated by adapting demonstrated technology. The Age of AI.

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GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

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. Enthusiasm for digital technologies is not lacking.

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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