Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. Well-conceived risk management dashboards aid oversight organizations including internal audit, management oversight, and compliance groups, in monitoring the organization’s overall risk profile and risk-based operational performance.

Risk Management 66

Risk Management Management Compliance Benchmarking 66

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Consequently, executive and manager attention and financial support may be disproportionately applied to the capital project(s), particularly in the event of overruns, at the detriment of problem resolution at the organization’s other operating assets. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

Risk Management 58

Risk Management Project Organization Management 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. These programs were further enhanced through the first-hand performance benchmarking of leading companies throughout the world. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Examine and benchmark the reasons and results. 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. How does it compare with the business you can or will generate? Budget it each year. Associate with those who feel similarly.

Strategy 94

Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 94

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. 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. There is no such thing as perfection. Consider leaving a comment!

Succession 82

Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 82

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement. 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. In the Chinese culture, every crisis is first recognized as a danger signal and always as an opportunity for overcoming obstacles.

Diversity 90

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 90

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Continuous quality improvement means that we benchmark accomplishments and set the next reach a little further. Niche consultants believe these things to be true, within their frames of reference. Let the buyer beware. There is no such thing as perfection.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. 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.

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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. Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. 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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Caterpillar , for example, publishes its dealer sales statistics by region each month, while the Spanish bank Santander puts out a newsletter with key operating results and commentary. In response, several pension funds and SWFs have begun or expanded the use of absolute return benchmarks in their equity strategies. "It

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Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Benchmarking the progress made and communicate it outside the community. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 59

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 59

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Philosophy.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive. Strategic goals and objectives must filter downward throughout all the organization. Training is vital. Make goals realistic, simple and attainable.

Strategic Planning 56

Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Benchmarks for measurement. Case studies.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Can the benchmarking information be accessed regularly? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do?

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Benchmarking. 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. Reconnecting with old friends, former colleagues and citizens for whom you have great respect. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Businesses should review their Strategic Plan annually. Training is vital. Priorities: Focus on important goals.

Goal 50

Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Capitalization is stretched beyond limits, and operations advance in a cash-poor mode.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision? Arrogant attitudes. Who are the customers?

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

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. Cash outlays are always risks.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Insist that they benchmark everything they do for you toward a Big Picture of your business. External-Marketplace.

Strategic Planning 79

Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 79

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate. It’s not that some organizations ‘click’ and others do not. Arrogant attitudes.

Bottom-up 58

Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. Examine and benchmark the reasons and results. 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 Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Committee 52

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Accounting. Who are the customers?

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57