Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. The first type is known as tactical performance.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. This is a comprehensive set of strategies, methodologies, policies, practices and programs that are integrated throughout business operations, supported and rewarded by top management. It helps to manage relations with stakeholders.

Ethics 50

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2024

Their work involves coordinating various logistics activities, navigating complex regulations, and managing unforeseen challenges. Scheduling: They manage schedules to ensure timely pickups and deliveries, coordinating with multiple parties, including shippers, carriers, and consignees.

Supply Chain 107

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Transportation Compliance 107

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. Here is my own business success checklist that will help you optimize your activities for a more efficient and purpose oriented endeavor.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But sometimes war tactics really can help in business. Among these tactics is CARVER, a system for assessing and ranking threats and opportunities. Because it helps you articulate an efficient story using numeric values, CARVER can be used to clarify mission objectives — whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom.

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Lastly, having an accurate sales forecast can help you make sound business decisions in terms of budgeting, risk management, and planning. It refers to a document containing your business’s best sales tactics, strategies, and even templates which are based on your sales successes and failures.

Tips 97

Tips Team Tools Tactics 97

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy. The Golden State’s energy efficiency programs have saved its residents $74 billion over the last few decades and avoided the construction of more than 30 power plants. Government Risk management Sustainability'

Power 9

Power Planning Proposal Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Here are some specific recommendations, which are based on our collective expertise in care delivery, health systems, financial regulation, and risk management. These established methods of approaching health care security would merely need to be updated to cover new forms of cyberattacks and new tactics employed by cybercriminals.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Despite prominent calls to action, and despite digital’s ubiquity in the press and in many discussions of strategy and tactics across organizational functions, it appears that boards are still not seeing the value of digital. Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Boards Technology'

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Organizations that take cyber security seriously should implement best practices that will help reduce the disconnects and ensure effective cyber risk management. To triage efficiently, security teams need as much context as possible to ascertain if an alert is important or not.

Technology 8

Technology Survey Cost Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In our experience, despite increasing security spend, most companies face significant obstacles to successfully managing cyber risk. It is simply not possible, at present, for every company in America to have sufficient internal cyber expertise to manage the risk. We need to reorient our cybersecurity focus.

Safe Harbor 11

Safe Harbor Banking Policies Information 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The insightful companies examine their own backyards… applying the discussions, uncoverings and applicabilities to how they will better manage in the future. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered.

Crisis 56

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient. So the goal should not be greater efficiency, but rather efficiency where it makes sense. Here the Army hasn't done a good job.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. That is, core solution-selling and account-management skills still matter. Choices are often false.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The reasons are rooted partly in the pernicious nature of complexity, and partly in the way that human beings psychologically respond to risk. We rightfully add safety systems to things like planes and oil rigs, and hedge the bets of major banks, in an effort to encourage them to run safely yet ever-more efficiently.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8