Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2019

As an example, task management software can be very useful for those working in teams to avoid miscommunication and those individual staff members who are taking on the slack of others. There are many other systems that now exist, including mobile device management for better asset management.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

StrategyDriven advisors work with executives and managers to define their organization’s needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We are concerned about the lack of disclosure, because data is critical to demonstrating progress in female and minority representation,” said Aditi Mohapatra, lead author of the report and analyst specializing in diversity issues in the Sustainability Research Department of Calvert Asset Management Company, Inc. “It

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. VCs have hardly taken the lead on “creative destruction” in the industry either, but as we’ve seen, the high levels of asset management style fees and the continuous gush of capital into ever-larger VC funds provides little economic incentive for them to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. Too many continuous improvement projects focus so much on gaining efficiencies that they don't challenge the basic assumptions of what's being done.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Pick a small project and a “low hanging fruit” vendor. Rather than going all in, some companies begin by picking a small project that could benefit from cognitive technology, and use a smaller, less transformative toolset to attack it. Some of Cognitive Scale’s customers, like M.D.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. Institutions have been raising tuition just to keep the lights on. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Wherever you start, it’s important to link the projects to a long-term digital platform strategy to avoid having disconnected islands of innovation. Many organizations are also implementing AI centers of excellence to work closely with business departments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

Standing before a brown swathe of land cut up into rectangular ditches for a World Bank-funded project just outside Liberia's capital city of Monrovia, George Howard is a beneficiary of one such innovation. Yet new breeds of solutions are emerging, with private and public players joining hands to find innovative answers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

And that’s where software asset management can help. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters. Comprehensive asset management is essential to an effective IT infrastructure, service, and cybersecurity management program. And Microsoft can help.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

Whether it’s a technical document that is being written by several authors or a project document that has to be edited by several people, Google Docs offers the necessary tools to take advantage of it. Google Docs offers one of the simplest ways for multiple people to collaborate on a single document.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

This erosion in the role of the manager has not gone unnoticed. As part of a recent research project into how top executives view training and development programs, executives overwhelmingly said the most urgent problem they face is igniting their managers to coach employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Capability development is also very important to a company’s essential experts, especially gaining knowledge and applying it to meaningful projects. Think of customer reps who support the biggest investors at asset management companies like Fidelity and Putnam.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities. Frame up realistic aspirations for monetization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

One recent project involved building a tablet-based system for carrying out complex calculations in real time. “The relationship with the customers tightens,” said James Maidment, the team leader of the project. Michael Francis, who led the project, noted how Kubernetes encouraged collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Each year, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, sends a much-anticipated letter to leading CEOs. In addition, less than four years from now, Social Security costs are projected to begin exceeding revenues until that program’s Trust Fund is fully depleted in 2034. Phil Ashley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Pilot projects show that a single improved highway ramp can save lives and save IAG approximately $600,000 (AUD) per year. Another example is Redwoods Group’s program in the United States to help its 400 youth-serving customers protect children.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. During a recent IT asset disposal project for a large New York bank, a chain-of-custody audit revealed three computers were untracked. assets were tracked. On average 97.2%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization. With these barriers, how can a nice organization create a culture of candid feedback?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. There are people very much steeped in this work, including you, who are out there managing stocks and other assets based on it. What we often find is that asset allocation is something the clients themselves want to manage.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

We think a good start is to assess investors’ preferences across five catagories: Place : Investments in companies or projects that are located in a particular place (or benefit a particular group of people). Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services.

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HR Digest

MAY 23, 2023

James Morton, chief investment officer at Santa Lucia Asset Management, recently said that Americans should brace themselves for a near certain recession this year, despite recent optimism from the Biden administration. The grim economic rhetoric of recession has caused employee concerns about job risks and layoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. This is the focus of my next project.). So with life-and-death consequences and vast costs, we must have moved quickly to tackle climate change, right? on to 2013.

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