Entries by Nathan Ives

It’s All Integrated

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Almost everything done in the modern business world involves some sort of data transaction and/or creation. Transactions performed in one computer application often contribute to or initiate the generation of additional data in another system. It is from these interrelated data sets that performance metrics are derived. Consequently, the actions taken by an individual using one system can knowingly and unknowingly drive the behaviors of numerous others and influence performance measurement output.

Achieving Organizational Alignment within Healthcare Organizations

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Co-authors Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal and Scot Park, Artower Principal, released a new white paper on organizational alignment and performance improvement for the healthcare industry. The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, […]

System Approval by the CEO

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Top executives set the behavioral tone of an organization. These leaders, particularly the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), are not only responsible for establishing the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals, but through their decisions, actions, and communications convey to the workforce their commitment to the achievement of these expectations. Such conveyance demands that these expectations also be programmatic embedded within the organization’s policies, procedures, standards, and performance measures. Therefore, it is crucial that the executive team approves, buys-in to, and reinforces the organizational performance measurement system so to ensure its credibility with the workforce at large.

Management Observation Program Best Practice 10 – Foundational, Situational, Event-based, and Random Observations

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While management observation programs serve many purposes, they primarily exist to drive achievement of the organization’s goals in a manner consistent with its values. These formal, documented observations accomplish this by shaping and reinforcing personnel behaviors critical to supporting excellent operational performance. To provide adequate coverage, these observations should be performed on a recurring, situational, event, and random basis.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 66 – An Interview with Mark Sanborn, author of Fred 2.0

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 66 – An Interview with Mark Sanborn, author of Fred 2.0 explores the […]

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