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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 36 – The Warning Signs of Employee Disenfranchisement

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. Episode 36 – The Warning Signs of Employee Disenfranchisement explores the warning signs of employee […]

“Dead”-On Business Rules: Ten Tie-Dyed and True Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, part 1 of 2

Viral marketing and social networking have arrived on the scene after a long, strange trip indeed. The Grateful Dead were much more than a bunch of rock-and-roll geniuses; they were pioneers of the digital age marketing landscape. When you think marketing visionaries, what companies come to mind? Apple? Google? Maybe even Microsoft? It’s true that […]

Business Performance Assessment Program – The Vertical Slice Assessment Approach

All company functions are constrained by limited resources. As such, it is impossible for an organization to self assess every activity it performs. Therefore, business performance assessments need to be executed in a way that identifies the significant improvement opportunities at the lowest possible cost. One such approach is to do a thorough end-to-end review of a few occurrences of high value process.