Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Faster innovation. Benchmark measurements of accomplishments. 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. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

In contrast, owned media is anything under companies’ direct control such as websites, newsletters, catalogs, and blogs. The most common channels are your website, catalogs, and newsletters. They can be direct, as in discussion forums, or indirect, through peer benchmarking. Social media is usually treated as owned and earned.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Or a benchmarking exercise might lead a functional leader to argue for new investment in distribution networks (‘Our competitors have them’ or ‘We must be great at this’) without recognizing that your existing distribution network, while it may not be the best, is more than adequate for your way to play, and the investment is better made elsewhere.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Benchmarking. Individuals and organizations are more resilient than they tend to believe.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Benchmarking. Individuals and organizations are more resilient than they tend to believe.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 63

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. One can never review progress enough, with benchmarking being the key to implementing plans. Achievement is a continuum, but it must be benchmarked and enjoyed along the way.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. In addition to financial, cover-up costs can include the effects upon morale, activity levels, productivity, decision making, creativity, adaptation and innovation. Partially Address.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I innovated programs which brought acclaim, prestige, fund-raising, community collaborations and more to that organization. How Quickly They Forget Some people are creative and innovative. In time, the latters will claim it as their brainchild and will not acknowledge the innovator. Examine and benchmark the reasons and results.

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