Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. Click here to cancel reply.

Supply Chain 57

Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Posters, slides, banners, screen savers, newsletters, flyers, and framed parchments proclaim what the organization stands for. They are part of leadership teams who don’t recognize the subtle and often unconscious disconnects between words and deeds. Where are our management systems and leadership practices anchored?

Emotional Intelligence 56

Emotional Intelligence Teamwork Quality Survey 56

Strategy Driven

MAY 3, 2011

Lack of use of past operating experience – occurred in 41 percent of decisions with adverse outcomes. See StrategyDriven Strategic Analysis Best Practice 2 – advocatus diaboli , The Devil’s Advocate and StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 14 – The Devil’s Advocate.) Experience Exclusion and Inattention Errors. All rights reserved.

Analysis 65

Analysis Newsletter Operations Process 65

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

Leadership Role #1: Reading the World and Creating a Vision. Therefore, one of the most important competencies of leadership is the ability to read the world. Therefore, one of the most important competencies of leadership is the ability to read the world. No business is an island. Evoking a Mood. Consider leaving a comment!

Chief Executive Officer 51

Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 51

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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Newsletter Career Tools Execution 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Special Edition 53 – An Interview with Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership examines what it takes to achieve real and meaningful organizational change in a way that improves overall performance and ultimately enhances the bottom line. Randy’s book, Transformational Leadership , can be purchased by clicking here.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# In other words, BCBSM would not allow its customers to shop around for better deals. To read George’s full biography, click here.

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

CO2

JULY 2, 2010

Additionally, they found that after instituting this daily checklist that the managers provided more detail analysis of other business issues that were not on the checklist. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

Executive Coaching 74

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 74

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

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Guidelines 62

Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Visit www.Communispond.com for free access to numerous articles, audiocasts, videocasts and e-newsletter subscriptions. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Also listed are the free webinars Communispond sponsors and a schedule of upcoming public seminars.

Library 70

Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). This final chapter puts it all together.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

Magazine 51

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Visit www.Communispond.com for free access to numerous articles, audiocasts, videocasts and e-newsletter subscriptions. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Also listed are the free webinars Communispond sponsors and a schedule of upcoming public seminars.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments 2 Responses to “The Boomers are Leaving! Assemble some preliminary data: What are the demographics of your organization? Who will do this work?

How To 72

How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered.

Short-term 64

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

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. Research shows they can be cut in half. Faster innovation.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Richard Schroder is president of Anova Consulting Group, a leading market research and consulting firm focused on Win Loss Analysis and Client Satisfaction Research. All rights reserved.

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Yes, integrating into the social web (Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks) is key to your company’s future success, but being connected to the social web is only a part of what you need to do. Click here to cancel reply.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. The answer was to marry an academic approach to an intense, near-combat flight training regime followed by a rigorous analysis of the results. Duke and James D. Murph joined the U.S.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In any endeavor there is a correct course to set – and this course is based on the realities of the market in which one operates, competitive analysis and the true differentiation of the product, service or team being evaluated. It is not enough to say, after it is too late, “I knew that.” Consider leaving a comment!

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Commitment Follow-up Planning Covey 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

The virtual distance model is made up of three factors: physical distance, operational distance, and affinity distance. Most leadership might assume that because people were “co-located”, there would be no issues with virtual distance. Physical distance is essentially geographic distance.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Project Examples Tools 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Formerly sainted icons went down in disgrace.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. An independent analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 49% of new businesses survive for five years or more. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals.

Budgeting 83

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 83

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business - Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future ! Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Portfolio analysis. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Most management subsystems succeed or fail according to the clarity of goals of the overall organization.

Strategic Planning 56

Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics. Mary Grace holds leadership appointments with several professional societies including Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Civic service is the ultimate way to steer heir apparents toward the leadership track. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Even after they have ceased operation in certain communities. Communities are clusters of individuals, each with its own agenda. Community Relations.

Loyalty 60

Loyalty Bottom-up Strategic Planning Bond 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values which benefit other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Forecast accuracy, compared to actual results.

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values benefiting other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Portfolio analysis.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: There is no such thing in life as perfection, as anyone who had led a meaningful life has learned. My analysis: It takes more than a keyboard to effect solutions. My analysis: Yes they are, for less than one tenth of one percent of business issues. My analysis: An overstatement. ‘Problem Solvers.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. Organizations are collections of individuals, team clusters, operating units, departments, management philosophies and ideologies. External-Marketplace. You contribute much to the economy.

Review 57

Review Company Strategic Planning Industry 57