Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. A new strategy was required.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. So, how does a business build competitive advantage by becoming the preferred provider to the markets it serves? These leaders never micro-manage. The title of your book is Be Different!

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 112

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. Asset management and operational programs improvement.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

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. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2016

Lead validation in Internet marketing is the process of separating sales leads from other phone and form inquiries generated from a company’s website. Overall, if the marketing department judges the success of its campaigns (SEO, paid search advertising, email, etc.) About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Marketing Chief Operating Officer Advertising Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

As he did so, his stress evaporated and he led the executive team to take a bold step toward expanding the business into a complex but potentially lucrative overseas market. Another client, the chief operating officer of an insurance company, was experiencing massive stress in the context of a work crisis.

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Stress Chief Operating Officer CEO Micromanagement 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. This case came to light when one of us, Jose Murillo, GFNorte’s chief analytics officer, presented it to a graduating class of the Queen’s College analytics program, where the rest of us learned about it.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. The family asked us to review the COO''s strategy for the business as part of its corporate governance process. The strategy was overwhelming in its completeness.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

How do they manage from one wave of transient advantage to another? Coming out of that experience, Dixon led the company through a reinvention of its business model through new kinds of partnerships with building owners, new product offers such as a members'' club, " Businessworld ," and international expansion to new geographic markets.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Chief Operating Officer Entrepreneur Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. These managers are more persuasive at getting buy-in from the leaders in their organization, make better strategic decisions, and achieve more stable, more predictable, and longer-term growth.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Social enterprises and nonprofits increasingly recognize the need to adopt management disciplines used successfully in the for-profit world. Here too is a marketable skill that social enterprises can offer to employees who expect to someday return to the for-profit world.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer How To Airlines Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Hiring, managing performance, and firing. Seeking alignment about business strategy. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. Managing yourself Negotiating'

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. It then tried a more traditional functional management structure but then found it lost customer focus. How can you break this cycle?

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

And are there lessons for more traditional offices? To find out, we interviewed several coworking space founders and community managers, and surveyed several hundred workers from dozens of coworking spaces around the U.S. An increasing number of companies are incorporating coworking into their business strategies in two ways.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Survey Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. My father would put more professional managers in key positions. They were soon shipping food to Singapore and Australia.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8