Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

While most entrepreneurs hope their fledgeling business will one day grow into a multi-national corporation, making the transition from being the head of a small, tightly-knit team to overseeing a large number of employees working across a range of departments can often present a host of unexpected challenges. Add by subtracting.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Listen for a strong commitment and contributions to team members working towards a specific goal. Sample question: “Give me an example of one of the most significant contributions you made as a member of a high performing team.”. Self-Management: Demonstrating self-control and an ability to manage time and priorities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

However, the traditional business plan is only widely used and includes; Creating an executive summary mentioning the mission statement, vision, services, employees, leadership team, location, products, of your business. Growing and Developing an Effective Team. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely. Purchasing an Insurance Policy.

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Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 77

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CEOs need a plan to back their team with vaccination policies. Blackrock: Back in June, the asset manager required all of its employees to report their vaccination status. After the initial trickle of panic came a stream of announcements from companies mandating vaccines for all or some employees.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

” The StrategyDriven/ NTE Solutions team provides energy industry leaders with actionable performance improvement and regulatory compliance support in the areas of: Strategic solutions. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

You can’t hide behind ‘the team’ You are out there on your own. The negative aspect of the emphasis on the ‘the team’ in this country is that people can point the finger at someone else for the team’s failure… and often they do. This creates a certain sense of urgency and determination to win.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Jeff Kortes is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resources consulting firm which specializes in executive search, retention, engagement and front line leadership training. Slug Proof Your Team… No Nonsense Strategies to develop a High Performance Organization.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 2, 2020

Jaggi and Iridius Capital invests in real estate across all major real estate asset classes and has acquired or developed $1.5B of real estate since 2011, giving their team a front-row […]. Jaggi, known as “Jaggi”, is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Iridius Capital, a real estate firm based in Tucson, Arizona.

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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

Prior to joining StrategyDriven, Nathan was a senior manager in Ernst & Young and Deloitte Consulting’s Power & Utility practices; advising industry leaders on the design and implementation of integrated fleet asset management programs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. They make up the "secret sauce" of firms that are well managed and demonstrate strong culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. These investors also tend to hold significant portions of the equity shares of many companies while at the same time matching assets to long-term liabilities. The investment management industry has been highly commoditized.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. I’ve argued previously that it makes sense to start (and preferably end) the conversation at a 5-10% commitment level, modifying the range, either up or down, to take into account personal asset levels and circumstances of the team. The future has really never looked better!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

The following are several must-do actions items for retaining the high-value human assets you’ve worked so hard to acquire: Start at the top! Assess your supervisory and management team! He has trained hundreds of first-line supervisors, managers, and executives during his career. Find out what’s wrong and fix it!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 ” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right. “If you don’t like our strategy,” he told them.

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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. In the past year Japan's major electronics firms have lost an aggregated $21 billion and have been routinely displaced by competitors from China, South Korea, and elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

AllianceBernstein (AB), a $3 billion asset management company based in Manhattan, rates each of its 3,700 employees every year on both performance and potential. A company, like a sports team or a symphony orchestra, has to do a lot of things right to reach the pinnacle of performance.

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Human Capital How To Engineering Asset Management 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

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. This builds cohesion among your team, and inspires them to think creatively about how to solve pressing organizational challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. But if you go to the operational side of the institution, they feel investing capital is the business of their money managers, so they in turn pass the buck or avoid the decision entirely.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

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

JULY 31, 2015

It’s a delicate balance, one Don Jones, former Vice President, Learning at Natixis Global Asset Management summarized like this: “We need to have ‘customized’ solutions for individuals, while simultaneously providing scale and cost efficiencies across the organization,” he said.

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Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

You and Your Team Series. And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” While I was in Cuba making an album, one of my clients observed about the dancing musicians, “I’ve never been around people who have so much fun at work.”

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Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In January, Oxfam announced it would team with the asset manager Symbiotics to launch the Small Enterprise Impact Investment Fund (SEIFF), based in Luxembourg. Even non-governmental organizations, hardly usual allies for the private sector, are joining the wave of support for small business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. By sharply focusing their thinking, the team realized they were shortchanging themselves by not pursuing cross-selling opportunities within their current customer bases. He didn''t even ask for a credit card. Compare Your Organization to Others.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

Those days are over (for the tech-savvy, at least) and it’s now possible to not only use the cloud to transfer files across greater distances and keep team members updated, but you can also access and edit files from virtually any piece of hardware. You can edit it on your Mac laptop, Windows desktop, Android smartphone or even iOS tablet.

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Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Rick was looking for Kelly, one of the analysts who supported his consulting team. I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. Kelly’s hours were a mystery, and Rick was confused and annoyed.

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EPM Root Cause Analysis Handbook Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For example, Vanguard, the investments firm, created the semi-autonomous Personal Advisor Services (PAS) capability for its asset management customers. Each has different implications for the kinds of skills an organization needs and how it manages the technology once it comes in the door.

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Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Think of customer reps who support the biggest investors at asset management companies like Fidelity and Putnam. We’re glad he’s on call and on our team.” They may be salespeople whose customers need lots of handholding — think life insurance, for instance, or industrial machinery.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We are thrilled to have Mike join our StrategyDriven Advisor Services Team,” said Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Advisory Services Practice Leader. His hands-on knowledge and experience in performance improvement, regulatory inspection readiness, license renewals, and power uprates will be a great asset to our team”.

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Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

“The relationship with the customers tightens,” said James Maidment, the team leader of the project. And, unlike hardware-based advances, the influence this time will be from software — in particular, what happens when teams throughout the corporation build products and services using what is termed cloud-native software.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

Its managerial team first formed a working group of personnel from business units across the organization — from retail and asset management to planning and maintenance crews. A water authority in Australia, which deployed a software solution for improving network efficiency, is a case in point.

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Industry Supply Chain Incentives Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Tell your team about your commitment and ask for their help. At the end of our conversation, he asked me what feedback I had for him about his organization. Commit to being better at candor and feedback and share a plan to get there.

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Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

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. A portfolio approach can take many forms.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Unilever has received over 1,000 ideas and is "pursuing 6 to 7 percent of these with internal teams."

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10