Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Operations managers have a tough and challenging role, particularly in 2021. If you’re working in operations management, or you aspire to become an operations supervisor, take a look at some of the challenges you’ll be facing in 2021: 1. Building a Career in Operations Management.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Starting a warehouse operation? This means that there is the potential for high levels of success and there are many different types of businesses that you can prove your services for, but you will also find that warehouse operations can be complex and hard to get up and running. Write A Detailed Business Plan. Hire Your Equipment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Be sure you know the MITs (most important things) you need to accomplish at a strategic and tactical level. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. A few powerful phrases that can help. Here’s what I need.”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2021

If you want to see diners coming back to your restaurant every time, then you have no choice but to improve your operations. Technology has improved operational efficiency by reducing workload, eliminating paperwork, streamlining services, and ultimately increasing sales. Here are a few tips on how to go about it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In the modern era of technology and business, fleet management has witnessed a transformative shift. As the need for mobility grows and environmental concerns rise, businesses are keen to optimize their fleet operations not only for cost-effectiveness but also for sustainability and efficiency.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

As a leader of a large team, you’ve got to scale your leadership by creating a solid operating infrastructure and processes that work without a charismatic cheerleader pushing them along. Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2021

For this channel, in particular, be sure to manage customer expectations by giving an estimate of how long they can expect to wait for a reply. Additionally, there are a few other tactics you can use to improve the customer experience when it comes to returns.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2024

Efficient inventory management is a cornerstone of organizational success, impacting everything from customer satisfaction to the bottom line. In this blog, we explore this suggestion and delve into other effective strategies organizations can adopt to better manage their inventory.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. What does “regular” mean?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, when team members are unhappy with management, they are far more likely to leave a company. With this in mind, here are some management tactics you can implement to keep your team loyal and motivated. This may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised at how often managers forget this fundamental aspect of their jobs.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The analysis reveals six tactics commonly used to manage stereotypes when operating in male-dominated roles or industries. Selective tactics. The research found that the tactics used were highly context specific depending particularly on the goals they wanted to achieve in each set of circumstances.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Managers and leaders play a prominent role in any organization. Effective managers and leaders should embody the values and mission of the organization and ensure that these values are reflected in the wider workforce. In this article, there is a focus on managers and leaders who work in a manufacturing environment.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Next, if you want to boost productivity in your business, you need to change the way that your entire company operates. One example of this being managed IT services. Of course, you may be asking what is managed IT services , and how can they help my business be more productive? Deal with issues before they become problems.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Such leaders must possess various competencies, including sound strategy formulation, emotional intelligence, strong decision-making abilities, and effective team management. The executive is then closely supported through the tactical implementation of the action plan.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The Progress Bar Effect. Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That combination of personality traits, combined with the pace at which business operates today, can cause even the best and brightest to lose focus and in turn lose productivity, AND. Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. They lack a programmatic, disciplined approach to maintaining their focus.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Leveraging creativity for business growth involves transcending traditional marketing tactics and embracing novel, uncharted methods.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. To discuss your organization’s change management needs, please email me at kelli.hinshaw@avantas.com.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As you meet more people and learn about the business, validate or invalidate your hypotheses, which will become the basis of your future vision, strategies, and/or operational plans. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. Capture your hypotheses, ideas, and observations in a journal.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That combination of personality traits, combined with the pace at which business operates today, can cause even the best and brightest to lose focus and in turn lose productivity, AND. Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. They lack a programmatic, disciplined approach to maintaining their focus.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As well as speed, you also need to consider the cost of your shipping operation. That’s why you need to make an effort to improve the efficiency of your shipping operation. Improve Inventory Management. When you’re managing your inventory properly, you’ll find it a lot easier to pack and ship orders fast.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. On the other hand, 62% of HR managers said that a successful onboarding process can improve the employee experience, and 54% said it can improve employee retention.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

According to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), effective onboarding can increase employee retention by 25% and improve productivity by up to 50%. On the other hand, 62% of HR managers said that a successful onboarding process can improve the employee experience, and 54% said it can improve employee retention.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Managing your business gets increasingly more difficult as you scale it, Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to ensure that your company stays organized as long as you adopt some golden rules to help streamline your workflow and logistics processes. Unforeseen circumstances aren’t uncommon regardless of the type of business you operate.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2024

By carefully considering the design of these pallet rack systems , warehouse operators can optimize not just space but also the movement and accessibility of goods, ultimately driving faster fulfillment rates and better inventory turnover.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2014

Another common complaint about Business Review Meetings is that nearly always the time gets hijacked with discussions on day-to-day operating or tactical issues, especially when we have a room full of engineers turned managers; they quickly dive down into trying to fix the problem right then. It might be time for a rethink!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2019

Next, if you want to boost productivity in your business, you need to change the way that your entire company operates. One example of this being managed IT services. Of course, you may be asking what is managed IT services , and how can they help my business be more productive? Deal with issues before they become problems.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When changes falter or organizations fail, it can usually be traced to dysfunctional management. Team Decisions and Collective Actions Functional silos and vertical accountability often create disparate groups of hard-driving leaders who meet to share information and provide individual input to budgets and operational plans.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refrigerated LTL trucks often include real-time monitoring and tracking, so operators can monitor internal temperatures and make adjustments if the temperature rises or lowers beyond acceptable measures. Managing Containers. Making sure you have the right type of container for your goods will make a significant difference.

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