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.". "Her

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

Are you over-informing and under communicating? Many managers confuse information and communication: Information Technology/. Information Technology is critical today. Like management processes and people leadership, it’s about balance. They increase texts, posts, and e-mails. Communication.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2021

We have already covered what soft skills are at the beginning of the article—these cover communication, empathy, and leadership traits. IT engineering skills can be programming, CAD, coding, Information technology, and communications that includes skills at using various operating systems. So what scores over the other?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In a conversation with The HR Digest, she explains why a conscious culture plays a dominant role in motivating employees at the world’s leading information technology and networking company. . Getting proximate to our teams and leaders, their needs and strengths makes us better as a leadership team. PHOTO: CISCO.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Well actually, no it’s not. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Bottom Line: To be successful in this extremely complex and unstable business environment, managers must do all that they can, like using information technology, to simplify. There is a great deal of meaning and relevance packed into each leadership effort. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2013

They illustrate respect for their employees and peers by providing open and honest communication about the rationale for decisions made to ensure teams are operating with facts and not rumor or misinterpretations. It’s not that difficult to build maturity if you operate intelligently and with sincerity.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

So, I would suspect that your concern about maintaining gross profits of the past, when product sales dominated your business, is very real now that operations are more services oriented. Very large companies in the information technology industry, like IBM, are successfully moving from product-driven to services-driven businesses.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 19, 2012

For example, Accounting, Finance and Information Technology teams. By taking the time to map out these priorities you create a constructive perspective of the realities in your operating relationship. In business, this will typically include employees, customers and investors. Establish Weighted Connectors for Priorities.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. Both industrial, machine-like robots and digital, computerized robots have revolutionized the way companies operate.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”

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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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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 15, 2017

Lincoln was a member of our church plant, served as a military officer, and now works as an information technology professional in the financial sector. He has over a decade of experience helping organizations understand the threats they face and make informed, risk based decisions. 1 Peter 4:12.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How will leadership teams and boards of directors orchestrate the strategic transformations of their currently successful businesses? The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Does your organization view spending money on information systems security (cybersecurity) as an investment, a financial burden, or an unjustified cost of doing business? Is your security budget directed primarily to the Information Technology (IT) department? People Component of Cybersecurity Investing.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

However, digital technology is not the true story. Fulfilling technology’s potential will require leaders to recreate the way their institutions operate in a world of digital ubiquity. They use digital technology to drive significantly higher profit, productivity, and customer benefits. Digital transformation is.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. People leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. Probably not. How are they doing it?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And many companies also face additional energy-related costs from their commercial vehicles, of which there are over 12 million in operation in the U.S. Operational Improvements. Take lighting, for example.

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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. Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. It requires new modes of operation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Designing a real system of care will require a combination of technology, process, and people. Most hospitals already operate on the edge of profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. We tend to make a great fuss about leadership these days, but communityship is more important. Hence managers have get beyond their individual leadership, to recognize the collective nature of effective enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. Testing for validation is all about leaders looking for compliance and adherence to plans; testing for learning is about leadership that expects people to be attentive, agile and adaptive. It's easy to tell them apart.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Finding this future in the deluge of information available requires doing a better job of boiling the ocean.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

One can easily imagine Amazon and other like-minded companies building out more and more tech-enabled strategic and operating capability—linking the pieces. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' The company uses these insights to drive—and adapt—strategic plans for new device and service offerings (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Daimler Trucks North America executives saw how IoT technology could fix this fundamental flaw in the design of the repair process, making the process smoother and more efficient for drivers and technicians alike.

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