Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm. Eich , Ph.D.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In other words, in our pursuit to create meaning through our shared efforts, we need to ensure that we’re creating value not just for our customers or shareholders, but also for our employees, if not also for the community in which we operate. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Many new international competitors were taking away market share. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. There were many multiple competing and shifting priorities. From an organizational standpoint, the leaders didn’t feel there was a compelling strategy they could commit to. They felt rudderless.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 2) Operating margins increase: According to the Towers Watson 2012 Global Workforce Study, companies with the highest sustainable engagement scores had an average one-year operating margin of 27% (vs. 3 Business Reasons for Employee Engagement Programs. by Companies4Good ?03-26-2013 By Kate Olsen.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue. Home About Coaching Contact Guest Posts Archives. Michael Hyatt.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. “We are delighted to welcome Greg to StrategyDriven as our Chief Operations Officer,” says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC President and Chief Executive Officer.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 2, 2021

The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. These co-investment funds can test the market validity of discoveries, with companies working alongside scientists to do so.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2021

With the growing popularity of the topic of cryptocurrencies, more exchanges offering transactions using virtual coins appear on the market. In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies. What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 31, 2014

Before my trip to Catalyst Atlanta 2013 , I purchased the Acer C710-2856 Chromebook laptop. I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this laptop as it uses a different operating system than I’m used to. There’s not another laptop on the market that I could find near that price.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Click here for more information on Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. All rights reserved.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Most salespeople fail because they don't understand the impact of their personalities on the person at the other end of the call.and.they are blindly 'winging it' by operating without a proven sales process methodology. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Summer 2013 Mood Tracker Report: Empowering Employees to Improve Performance. In our new Summer 2013 Workforce Mood Tracker Report : Empowering Employees to Improve Performance , we asked employees what they thought of reviews and what would make them better. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2021

Given the intensity of the cloud marketplace today, it seems incredible to countenance that Amazon largely had the market to themselves for a number of years, before the likes of Azure launched in 2010. leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022. leading to a projected market of $331 billion by 2022.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2015

Nonetheless, sheer size provides huge economies of scale throughout their operation, especially in production, overheads, distribution and marketing. Then in 2013, the giant decided to divide the company into two autonomous entities – Kraft and Mondelez. Focus or Scale? To Shareholders, it Doesn’t Really Matter.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

The entrepreneur takes risks but does not see himself as a risktaker, because he operates under the useful delusion that what he''s attempting is not risky. Hirschman and the power of failure" by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, June 24, 2013. Hire an independent (read: objective) professional to take a look at your intended market.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

Baker says that, "Many people conceive of their business dealings as spot market exchanges--value given for value received, period. This tit-for-tat mode of operation can produce success, but it doesn't invoke the power of reciprocity and so fails to yield extraordinary success.". Nothing more, nothing less. Grant Ph.D.:

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Riverside Auto Group, a second-generation company owned equally by three brothers, operates seven dealerships employing 190 people throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Marquette, Escanaba, and Iron Mountain) and Wisconsin (Marinette). Customer complaints are down from one a week to one a quarter. And read on… there are even more!

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Jacobs Suchard Directors expected me to run their North American operation as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long as the returns were favorable, they assumed I was doing just that. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. I wasn’t surprised in the least. Jeff Bezos thought so.

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Long-term Download CEO Objective 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. If you don''t market your business, you won''t have one. His advice? Planning is about preparing for the future, not predicting it.

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Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

million around the concept and produced an infomercial aimed at the women’s fitness market. The product failed, largely because consumers found it too complicated to use, and because Alden had targeted too small a corner of the fitness market. Alden had raised $1.5 The founder of SEALFIT , NavySeals.com , and U.S.

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Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. It runs the risk that startups targeting niche problems get crowded out in favor of those forced to chase mass market problems.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 4, 2020

It is also easy to operate, affordable and helps alleviate payroll errors and reduce a considerable amount of hours spent making all kinds of calculations. Since its foundation in 2013, it has claimed a considerable user base and an excessive growth with its comprehensive yet homogenous design.

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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. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In China the basis is the family system which operates not only in the People’s Republic, but also overseas in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Europe and North America. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Smart Marketing for Small Businesses. Utilize networks. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. We are convinced that markets — to the extent they are allowed to operate — working together with high-speed communications technologies, will significantly reduce the harm that could befall us.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Risk management and compliance.

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Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market. Weak profits are never the problem, they are always a symptom of not operating on the other five P’s. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Exit Strategy How To Strategy Operations 65

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market. Weak profits are never the problem, they are always a symptom of not operating on the other five P’s. What’s the best time to sell my business?

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Exit Strategy How To Entrepreneur Strategy 65