Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

Report 98

Report Data Strategy Strategy 98

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ensuring that your team understands how to operate within their new working conditions is a key part of creating a culture of accountability. As quarantine begins to ease, and businesses are starting to operate as normal again, organizations must take advantage of the changes they have made and assess which ones they want to keep.

Culture 52

Culture ROI Operations Tools 52

Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Since 2020, due to working primarily remotely , people developed a tendency to compensate for less office presence with more digital meetings. This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers. Next, you need to develop a strategy for tackling the undesired behaviors. But can we revert back?

Meeting 52

Meeting Tools Survey Productivity 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Challenges.

Healthcare 32

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 32

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I’ve also independently developed a number of online courses so have thought deeply about which kind of programming is appropriate for professionals’ needs. If everyone on the leadership team has an advanced degree and you don’t, it may be an uphill battle to convince them of your merits.

Education 28

Education Case Interview Course ROI 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

Survey 35

Survey Tools Industry Automotive 35

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development.

Strategy 36

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J.

Metrics 28

Metrics System Healthcare Culture 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

Marketing 41

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 41

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

ROI calculator. You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. Following up with a “Hello” page.

Consulting 68

Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By Brian Selby, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations, Tableau Software. Getting there requires leadership to invest time and resources into acquiring the right data, systems, and people to build these new capabilities. How often is your sales team making important decisions based on gut feel? 1) Start with clean data.

Sales 28

Sales Data Enterprise Operations 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

This principle has always been a priority for the leadership team at Vineyard Vines and it is still top of mind today. Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. This cross-channel move resulted in a 182% ROI.

Retail 29

Retail Engineering Apparel Data 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

From a historical perspective, the idea that managers in organizations have a single, dominant duty — to achieve or maximize economic returns — is a striking development. “When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he added, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.”

ROI 28

ROI Pharmaceuticals Analysis Financial 28