Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

Skills 130

Skills Cooper Books Benchmarking 130

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Whether you’re facing price pressure from domestic competitors, startups, powerful customers, or low-cost overseas providers, you’ve heard the mantra of “productivity” preached again and again. Benchmarking, finding new “best practices,” and implementing broad Management of Change documents. What made the difference?

Productivity 242

Productivity Products Benchmarking Brainstorming 242

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

Consultative 222

Consultative Organization Self-aware Objective 222

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 419

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

Skills 72

Skills How To Cooper Benchmarking 72

HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

This involves aligning the TNA with the company’s strategic priorities, such as improving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency, or expanding into new markets. This benchmarking process can also reveal any gaps in the organization’s training programs compared to its peers.

Analysis 132

Analysis Training Compliance Objective 132

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

Due Diligence 171

Due Diligence Metrics Rogers Competitive Advantage 171

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Delivering on this promise has been a challenging activity that many leaders grapple with when measuring digital marketing benchmarks for success. Regardless of how it’s asked, “are we earning a return for our digital dollars” is a “hot button” marketing question poised by leaders, management and operating staff.

CPA 273

CPA Organization Succession ROI 273

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. Miller Mike, In this speed-at-all-costs world we've created, there is a complete lack of Plan B. " Thanks for adding to the conversation Jennifer.

Contingency Plans 360

Contingency Plans Planning Blog Ryan 360

QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

The Six Benchmarks of High Performance Teams. James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Jamie Flinchbaugh writes on lean, transformational leadership and entrepreneurial excellence. James Lawther’s SquawkPoint Blog.

Management 167

Management Blanchard Benchmarking Blog 167

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril. It has become more important to “do things right&# rather than to “do the right things.&#

Politics 375

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Institutionally, they believe in success and understand the millions of tiny steps it takes for your vision to become a plan, for the plan to be put into action and those actions to become a benchmark operation. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it.

Team 120

Team Benchmarking Long-term Influence 120

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

"We're experiencing double-digit growth and as a result, we need an executive coaching program like Six Disciplines to help us manage this growth profitably and to keep us on track and focused on the most important tasks. " ~ Randy Joseph, VP of Sales and Operations, Laminate Technologies.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

First and foremost, your senior leadership has to be on the same page with a crisp and clear long term vision. This is a haphazard way to operate. Step 2 above should have identified the main points, and the next step is to chunk things down into broad benchmarks with completion deadlines and personnel/budget allocation. .

Execution 70

Execution Strategy Succession Short-term 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Document Benchmarking Library 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

Compliance 244

Compliance Ethics Efficiency Metrics 244

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

Blog 395

Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Originally designed to provide labor cost arbitrage, they are now on the brink of being a source for strategic advantage. But that's not by accident.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Make-good efforts cost more on the back end than doing things right on the front end. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. Who would argue that a business should not eliminate unjustifiable costs?

Zero Based Budgeting 9

Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting Supply Chain Company 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. In that regard, NGOs find themselves facing the same issues that vexed multinational corporations as they began to master globalized operations several decades ago. Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars.

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

And despite the many laws against corruption, and increases in enforcement of those laws, bribery in particular continues to thrive and the costs to business and to society continue to escalate. Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

This perspective is a shift from existing strategy perspectives as it affects nearly every major decision a company makes, from growth initiatives, portfolio strategy, and M&A opportunities to its approach to budgeting and cost cutting. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Andy Grove, Intel's legendary former CEO, famously touted the virtues of paranoia as a leadership asset — running scared about imagined enemies or competitors. Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future.

Benchmarking 15

Benchmarking Health Care Loyalty Construction 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things. Let me state right from the outset that I place little value on ideas.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. When possible, we compare ourselves with recognized benchmarks or simply with ourselves over time. Even if we cannot observe a meaningful trend or benchmark comparison, we report our outcomes anyway. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Audience Report Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Second, many managers assume they should adopt the best practices of their industry and treat external benchmarking as the established path to success. Fourth, a conventional company might try to reduce costs across the board by going lean everywhere. But the companies we studied cut costs to grow stronger.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

drama's main players about leadership, negotiation, and protecting our (national) brand. Benchmarking was a key feature of President Clinton's effort at Reinventing Government. Government has traditionally looked to business for tools and techniques to help improve productivity and cut costs through greater efficiency.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Six Sigma Benchmarking Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. billion — not a bad decade.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

His company had just appointed him to take over a troubled country operation in Latin America. Rabbits are busy chasing some internal mission, vision, or benchmark. Management saw this as Maria’s key leadership challenge — getting her whole team on board. He did a brilliant job turning things around financially.

Rogers 8

Rogers Benchmarking Loyalty Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. Deborah DiSanzo, the CEO of Philips Healthcare, was once a CMO.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8