Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We Her extensive knowledge and experience in information technology and cyber security adds a critical dimension to our advisory services practice and brings tremendous value to our clients.".

Information Technology 50

Information Technology Telecommunications Committee Technology 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

As a trade, mechanics require a long lead time and many labor hours to gain skills and experience, especially with the technology and alternative fuels of complex and heavy equipment continuously changing. The County established a tier-based system for mechanics to advance within the organization.

Operations 79

Operations Succession Automotive Incentives 79

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale. Encourage employees to participate in decorating communal spaces to build a sense of shared celebration.

Morale 52

Morale Team Building Stress Planning 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

This amount of change could paralyze a company at worst and create chaos at best, but thanks to a proper change management system, we’ve thrived. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

Teams are often placed together with little to no system for knowing how to effectively achieve goals and how to overcome challenges in the team process. David Monroe, Director of Community and Technology Development Community Connections of New York. Within every human service organization, people are asked to team with others.

Team Building 124

Team Building Team Class Committee 124

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology? But there's more.

Education 15

Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. Sponsored by Optum.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We’ve also created shared value networks focused on influencing financial, healthcare, education and criminal justice systems, both inside our walls and externally. A member of the executive committee, Donna is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing talent for one of the world’s largest private employers.

Environment 98

Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. The Visioning committee should represent all strata of the firm.

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing. As the head of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

They are, after all, the company’s steadfast guidance system, charged with keeping an even keel in rough waters. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee. Mattes, who had previously led major divisions at Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, and other technology-laden companies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

I’ve been working in HR for over twenty years, and the best companies I’ve worked with have recognized that there are three elements to a culture: behaviors, systems, and practices, all guided by an overarching set of values. A place to start is by reviewing the behaviors, systems, and practices in place in your company.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. This sweeping goal of total educational transformation may seem overly ambitious for someone whose work centers in learning technologies.

Education 14

Education Technology Resistance Mentor 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A fascinating business dynamic will unfold as health care providers in the United States shift from a reimbursement system that has historically paid for procedures performed to one that rewards population health — providing the total care of a community at a fixed cost and improving its members overall health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Part of the problem is that systems are often hard to use. Then these systems perform the relevant analysis to highlight what is most interesting and important, identify and access the data necessary to tell the story, and finally deliver the analysis in a personalized, easy-­to-­consume way: as a narrative. Insight Center.

Call Center 8

Call Center Supply Chain Committee Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week.

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This lesson can be applied more broadly, including to systematizing search processes, appointment of physicians to committees, and nomination for leadership roles and increased responsibility. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

Health Care 10

Health Care Leadership Diversity Career 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Outside of 'think tanks' for company executive committees, full-scope education does not occur. 6) Insights, Beliefs, Systems of Thought. (7) By their nature, HR departments are designed to uphold processes and systems. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. 2) Learning Curve. (3) Workplace literacy.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

And while there''s ample competition from Android – the top operating system in the U.S. has been the Google-based system for three years – 55% of all mobile activity actually comes from iOS. "We''ve never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone," Cook says, emphasizing that they''re "not in the junk business."

Cooper 8

Cooper Committee Bottom-up Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physics, a more recent addition to Urban Studies, is currently being used by researchers at MIT and NYU to determine how systems within a city interact with each other and with individuals. Consider these ways to think more like an urban physicist in your next office steering committee meeting: Generate more data.

Conference 8

Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

A sustainable outcomes measurement system must engage a broad range of functions within the organization. Dr. Meara and the project team present to the committee on a quarterly basis to update them on progress toward established milestones and to gather feedback and input on the next steps in the process.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Long-term Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

The rationale is simple and elegant: A company with experience selling pharmaceutical products should be able to successfully and profitably sell its large customers (health plans, delivery systems, and governments) other health care offerings. Regulatory environment. Revise regulations.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. Stephen Greer is a senior advisor at Oaktree Capital and author of Starting from Scrap.

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. Part of asking the right questions is understanding who’s on the buying committee, which is particularly challenging given that 6.8 Gain executive buy-in.

B2B 8

B2B CRM Franchising Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We use this idea to foster change in social institutions and thinking.". Michael Phelps.

Mission Statement 16

Mission Statement Public Relations Commitment Committee 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. In theory, the organizational challenges of algorithmic autonomy map perfectly to which processes or systems are being made autonomous. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

For example, in setting strategy at a large multinational, the CEO has to navigate among different politico-economic systems that range from state capitalism to government-centric industrial policy nations to market-centric mixed economies.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8