Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2016

Foundational : assessments occurring at a given frequency within a defined time interval typically focused on core business risks, operational goals, and organizational values. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Compliance 50

Compliance Trends Operations Analysis 50

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

From that analysis and my 22+ years at Microsoft, here are a few things I’ve learned on the subject of “building the right team”: 1. Great execution can elevate a flawed plan; at the same time, poor operational capabilities can easily sink a great set of ideas. and local chapters of Boys and Girls Clubs and Year Up.

Team 100

Team Rogers Diversity Franchising 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. “Not only are these programs cost effective to implement, but they yield real and immediate bottom line value.”. Consider leaving a comment!

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Metrics 50

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Each time technology advances to allow for collection, storage, and analysis of more data, we have the opportunity to expand the boundaries of the systems that we can analyze and improve. Are operational definitions the same across different data sources? Theory poses questions that guide analysis. What is our theory?

Deming 28

Deming System Cooper Analysis 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For some time now, I've been observing that one of the central principles of strategy — that industries are a fundamental building block for strategic analysis — is being challenged. As the report concludes, "NPD expects the average pay-TV bill to reach $123 by the year 2015 and $200 by 2020."

Analysis 8

Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

Also, Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge can help us understand and improve the collection and analysis of data. The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. All data are subjective! Consider data collection in education.

System 28

System Education Comparison Influence 28

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

To correct for the measurement inversion other methods, like applied information economics, introduce the ‘value of information analysis’ step in the process so that metrics focus on high-value measures. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. Especially at first, this type of data doesn’t lend itself to the type of easy analysis that its structured equivalent does. chuttersnap/unsplash. Five employees were assigned to read through thousands of user posts.

Agility 8

Agility Report Storytelling Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Through a detailed qualitative analysis, we examined company reports, media releases, policy statements, and over 70 interviews conducted with senior managers from these companies.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. At the top end of the investment scale, 27% of firms say they will invest greater than $50 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 5% of firms that invested this amount in 2015.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. My analysis suggests another driver: R&D investment is increasingly concentrated in a few top firms. billion euro.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

corporations from 1985 to 2015. To address this concern, we conducted a supplementary analysis. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools. ” The thinking on diversification later changed, turning into skepticism in the 1970s and outright criticism in the 1980s.

Influence 12

Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. In 2015, the digital universe contained 4.4 zettabytes.

Software 8

Software Industry Operations Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated. Isn’t it obvious that these two are the main alternatives?

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

The World Economic Forum’s recent Global Gender Gap Report 2015 gives us a wealth of detail about the continued worldwide imbalance in gender equality and what it means for the future. Encouragingly, in FY14 71% of gender-balanced groups saw positive operating profit during the last three consecutive years, versus 60% for others.

Diversity 8

Diversity Report Globalization McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. For example, as Greece returned to financial crisis in 2015, the IMF forecasted 2.5%

Marketing 9

Marketing GDP Industry Objective 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Two days ago, the Italian government had to pass a law requiring listed and state-owned companies to ensure that by 2015, one-third of their board members would be women. Only 6% of directors in Italy are currently women — one of the lowest rates on the continent — compared to 14% in the European Union and 16% in the U.S.

Diversity 18

Diversity Long-term CEO Reputation 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Close to 50 years ago, in March 1967, a landmark article described how to change the unit of analysis in medical care from an individual service to a medical episode. When that happens, and it will by early 2016, the shift will be swift and catch the incumbents unprepared, much as mobile telephony surprised the landline operators.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Two days ago, the Italian government had to pass a law requiring listed and state-owned companies to ensure that by 2015, one-third of their board members would be women. Only 6% of directors in Italy are currently women — one of the lowest rates on the continent — compared to 14% in the European Union and 16% in the U.S.

Diversity 17

Diversity Long-term CEO Reputation 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

It’s 2015, and by now even latecomers among multinational corporations have decided to include African countries in their emerging market portfolios. Many companies separate their Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa operations because of strong cultural, economic, and linguistic differences between the two regions.).

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term GDP Contingency Plans 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

Banking 11

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The success of this enables trainers with the 'rank and file employees' to be optimally successful. Periodically, the material is reviewed. Information.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

million Series D in November 2015 — Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet, unprofitable.

Business Model 8

Business Model Retail Brand Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: MineMe Inc.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers analysis, and many other tools have helped executives uncover waste in their operations — in effect, identifying labor hours (or materials) that are unnecessary in order to produce the same level of output.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

Education 8

Education Industry Technology Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In this adaptation from the new book, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (HBR Press, 2015), BCG strategy experts make sense of the all the different, and competing, approaches to strategy: Which strategy is right for your business? When and how should you implement it? Then they work single-mindedly to be the first to build it.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. Two impressive pieces of analysis made the case that moving to a clean economy is profitable – both for society and for the private sector.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Another set of initiatives aims to address the problem through altering access , for example by restricting fast food restaurants from operating near schools and increasing access to healthy food. What distinguishes this analysis is the real-world field setting covering sales across the U.S. We studied milk consumption for two reasons.

Price 8

Price Policies Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the use of commercial drones in United States airspace could become official starting in 2015.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

By 2015, there will be 22 metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people. The City of Rio de Janeiro has integrated information from over 30 city departments into one Operations Center for real-time visualization, management and analysis of incidents across the city.

Gilbert 8

Gilbert System Price Energy 8