Mike Cardus

JANUARY 18, 2012

Innovation and critical thinking are essential skills. The ability to handle organizational complexity goes beyond strategic planning as managerial-leaders need to take action and increase their ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity. All people in organizations work with complexity and change.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Helping others.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning. The quality audit by objective outside communications counsel can also examine the production, marketing and strategic planning functions. Faster innovation. Customer retention.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17%). Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Customer retention.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Independence Accountability Verification It appears that young readers today have one of two opinions on news: 1) nothing is true or 2) anything people send me is true With so much user generated content it is critical that the readers of today’s media are more informed about how to decode truth verses opinions.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

How can we strategically plan for sustainable development, formulate education and development plans, and prepare the workforce in advance? This collaborative event between the two organisations resulted in remarkable success, with audience members commenting that they had found the webinar content “thought-provoking”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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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. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. Deviations from the strategic plan are often assumed to be detrimental to corporate performance. Such organizations experience strategic burnout.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives. Generate Room for Innovation.

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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. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Too often, marketing puts out a new advertising campaign, a new value proposition, or new messaging for the sales team with the expectation that the sales teams will just start using the new language, almost as if they were changing the content on a web page. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. Giving the CMO a clear role in the strategic planning process is a good start. sales, operations, IT), it requires being able to work well with other leaders to influence outcomes.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. And this can’t be just your run-of-the-mill, 300-750 word article due to the explosion of content on the web.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Going ‘outside the box’ to shift perceptions enables any company to think, plan and operate in productive new ways. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! Breaking down the verse into four key habits presents an effective strategic plan for any leader who wants to align with God’s plan for their life and career. As someone who teaches, this quest also informed my content.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

There is no converting them to your more enlightened way of thinking and operating. 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. Spot them and avoid them. He has advised two U.S.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Doing otherwise biases the business against innovation because what you are projecting may look unattractive relative to your business today. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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