Our Thanks

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As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I want you – our clients, members, and readers – to know how grateful I am for your support and friendship.

As we reflect on the past three years, the StrategyDriven Team and I have much to be thankful for, in particular, the opportunity to serve people like you. Through our engagements, we helped clients identify over $200 million in performance improvement opportunities, enhance their safety cultures, and receive recognition as industry leaders by external oversight organizations. In 2015, we launched the StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Program, turnkey Sevian Business Programs, and StrategyDriven Analytics service offering. Most importantly, our clients’ trust and patronage enabled us to provide for our veteran and service-disabled veteran team members and their families.

We appreciate your considering StrategyDriven to support your future performance assessment and improvement needs. Together, we can make 2016 a successful and prosperous year.

May you and your family enjoy a very Happy Thanksgiving!

All the Best,
Nathan Ives, President & CEO, StrategyDriven

Nathan Ives
President & CEO
StrategyDriven Enterprises

How Top-Tier Consulting Became Available to Small and Midsize Business Leaders

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Need expert advice but don’t think you can afford high quality consultants to support your initiative?
 

StrategyDriven is launching a Personal Business Advisor Program; uniquely providing affordable cutting edge tools and expert advice that until now was typically available to only large company executives and senior managers.

StrategyDriven was founded on the principle of making top-tier consulting services affordably available to the leaders of small and midsized businesses and the mid-level managers and professionals of larger companies. Over time, we learned it wasn’t enough to simply deliver a traditional consulting program economically. Our clients wanted focused advice at very specific times during their projects and possibly a few analytical tools to use along the way – nothing more, nothing less. A radical departure from the traditional consulting model that would further lower costs.

And why not? Today, business coaches commonly advise their clients via phone or video conference and legal advice and forms are available from LegalZoom. All delivered affordably. So why can’t top-tier consulting advice be available virtually and turnkey processes, best practices, and analytical tools online? They can. And now they are.

StrategyDriven’s Personal Business Advisor program provides the experts and tools needed when and where they are needed with no long-term consulting contract. Our employment of true experts, use of modern technologies and streamlined business operations ensures clients receive exceptional advisory services at an affordable price regardless of their budget. Here’s how we do it:

  • Select the Advisor – Chemistry is everything. Client success depends not only on finding the advisor possessing the experience, education, and training needed, but in connecting with someone they can relate to and trust. That’s why we offer a free initial consultation. It’s an opportunity for the client to get to know their advisor and assess how he/she can help them succeed.
  • Identify the Support Needed… No More, No Less – Why pay for a small army of consultants when all that is needed is periodic, focused advice? Our plans ensure clients have access to the experts needed in the amount wanted with no requirement to include costly staff personnel. Want a just few hours per month or full time? No problem. The client decides.
  • Select the Tools Wanted – Don’t want a lot of bells and whistles? Really don’t want to pay for the development of your consultant’s thoughtware? Purchase only the tools wanted, fully developed and maintained on our dime.
  • Determine How We Should Engage – We’re flexible and technology savvy. We employ modern communications technologies; interacting via video and teleconference whenever possible thereby eliminating the need for expensive travel and client office space. (But we will always be there when we are needed!)
  • Choose the Engagement Duration Without Being Locked-in – Business circumstances change. Clients don’t want to be locked into long-term consulting contracts. StrategyDriven’s plans renew on a monthly basis. Clients can cancel at any time.

StrategyDriven Advisors possess decades of experience helping leaders of small to Fortune 500 companies define and implement the complex, mission-critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and reduce costs. Isn’t it about time these people were working for you?

Click here for more information and to schedule your free consultation.

StrategyDriven Releases a Turnkey Business Performance Assessment Program

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StrategyDriven’s turnkey Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program provides business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance.
 
Sevian Business Performance Assessment ProgramStrategyDriven released its Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program providing business leaders with an immediately implementable process for performing in-depth evaluations of organizational performance. The assessment program contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices.

“The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program exemplifies StrategyDriven’s commitment to providing business leaders with high-quality, affordable solutions,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Our assessment solution embodies decades of experience in the evaluation of organizational performance; tested methods that have supported an unparalleled amount of performance improvement at companies both large and small.”

“In 2014 alone, Sevian Business Performance Assessments identified over $200 million in people, process, and technology improvement opportunities at four client companies,” continues Karen Juliano, StrategyDriven Vice President in charge of Sevian Business Program development. “Not only is this program cost effective to implement, but it yields real and immediate benefits.”

The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program was developed based on decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. This program was further enhanced through the first-hand performance benchmarking of leading companies throughout the world.

Sevian Business Performance Assessment Programs are fully customized to reflect client organization structure, positional titles, and common business terms. Each program contains all the components necessary to implement a fully mature program on day one – truly enabling

turnkey performance excellence. Supported by world-class software applications (optional), the program package includes:

  • Program Introduction establishing the framework for immediate program implementation, effective execution, and long-term governance.
  • Program Procedure containing specific step-by-step process procedures that are fully human factored to ensure consistent, accurate program execution.
  • Program Execution Guides providing detailed information on how to optimally perform major assessment activities including the use of program forms and models.
  • Program Principles, Best Practices, and Warning Flags elaborating on those core elements necessary for consistently superior program and process performance.

To ensure implementation success, Sevian Business Advisors provide onsite training and execution support when delivering the turnkey program.

The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program is being implemented by StrategyDriven’s clients, including some of the world’s largest companies. Complete information regarding the Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program is available at: www.strategydriven.com/sbpap.

Honoring Our Veterans

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Our StrategyDriven Team and I extend our thanks to our veterans for their military service and the sacrifices they and their loved ones made to protect our way of life. We know that without them and the brave men and women in uniform today, the freedoms we enjoy as Americans would not exist.

StrategyDriven is proud to employ veterans, disabled veterans, and their family members. We sincerely appreciate all the business we receive which enables us to provide for these great Americans.

We thank you, our veterans, for your commitment to our country and our families. We will always remember.

All the Best,
Nathan Ives, President & CEO, StrategyDriven

Nathan Ives
President & CEO
StrategyDriven Enterprises

Lieutenant, United States Navy

StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Program Makes Top Tier Consulting Accessible to Small and Midsized Companies

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StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Program provides easy, affordable, and timely access to seasoned business executives, leading edge analytical tools, and time tested methods. No longer does the competitive advantage lie with those having the deepest pockets.
 
 
StrategyDriven’s Personal Business Advisor Program makes top tier consulting services available to business leaders at all companies regardless of budget. By empowering clients to tailor each engagement to meet their specific project needs – no more, no less – and employing modern communications technologies, StrategyDriven eliminates the barriers preventing small and midsized company leaders from accessing high-end consulting services.

Few small and midsized business leaders realize the benefits of engaging top-tier consultants to assist with complex data analyses or provide specialty knowledge to their projects. Many avoid using these resources because of the time and expense involved. Others spend hours reading how-to books or taking continuing education courses to develop solutions.

“It’s understandable why the business leaders who would benefit most from top tier advisory services can’t or don’t access them,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “The current consulting model is expensive and time consuming; often involving fixed duration contracts that include unwanted resources. StrategyDriven’s Personal Business Advisor Program reduces the expense, time, and hassle of engaging knowledgeable experts to support development and execution of important business initiatives.”

The StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Program simplifies the engagement process to deliver top tier consulting services without the expense or time of traditional firms. Prior to each engagement, a client:

  1. Selects an Advisor possessing the experience, education, and training needed and who is someone the client can relate to and trust.
  2. Identifies the Support Needed, No More, No Less… providing periodic, focused advice from true experts to meet your specific needs.
  3. Selects the Tools Wanted from an expansive library of proven analytical tools, all fully developed and ready to use, accessible online 24 / 7 / 365.
  4. Determines How the Advisor Is to Engage using modern communications technologies whenever possible thereby eliminating expensive travel and the need for office space.
  5. Chooses the Engagement Duration without being locked into a long-term consulting contract. Easily cancel at any time.

In addition to one-on-one consultations, Personal Business Advisor clients gain access to StrategyDriven’s online business strategy and tactical execution advice library.

StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor clients include executives and senior managers of small and midsized companies as well as managers of some of the world’s largest businesses. Complete information regarding the StrategyDriven Personal Business Advisor Program is available at: www.strategydriven.com/sdpba.