Recommended Resource – University of Houston’s Diversity Management Certificate Course

Diversity Management Certificate Course Craig B. Clayton, Sr. PhD Director and Diversity Strategist Bauer College of Business University of Houston Website Address: www.bauer.uh.edu/degrees-programs/certificates/diversity-management.asp About the Reference The Diversity Management Certificate Course provides participants with the tools they need to identify and communicate the business value of a diverse and inclusive work environment. Topical areas covered […]

StrategyDriven Diversity and Inclusion Article

Diversity and Inclusion – What Does Your Environment Communicate?

We have often asserted that organizations, like people, act in a manner consistent with its shared values. Subsequently, those ideals in which an organization’s members truly believe manifest themselves in every aspect of the organization’s physical and social environments. These environments are categorically represented as an organization’s: physical environment, social environment, decision environment, positional environment, developmental environment, and recognition and rewards environment.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 6 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 1 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 6 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 1 of 3 defines vertically cascaded performance measures and explores the reason vertically cascaded performance measures are critically important to the strategy driven organization.

StrategyDriven Decision Making Article

Decision-Making – Evaluating Decision Options, part 3 of 3

Alternative selection is the point in the decision-making process where art meets science and academic knowledge meets hands on experience. There is often no one perfect solution or one best solution. Rather, there will exist several alternatives within the acceptable value range from which the decision-maker will ultimately have to choose one option.

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag Article

Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag 1 – Inwardly Focused Performance Assessments

Often practiced, it can be highly misleading to base the organization’s performance standards relative only to internally identified best practice methods and characteristics. While at times the organization’s performance does represent the highest standard, it is more likely that individual activities are performed more effectively and efficiently by other organizations, particularly those seeking to improve performance in an effort to compete with perceived industry leaders. Top performers recognize this trap and augment their internal search for effective performance with an outward examination of other relevant businesses.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 5 – Introduction to Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 5, Introduction to Organizational Performance Measures, serves as a foundation for the upcoming series of podcasts on the best practices associated with organizational performance measures.

StrategyDriven Decision Making Article

Decision-Making – Evaluating Decision Options, part 2 of 3

Once a decision’s requirements, important value-adding, and nice-to-have characteristics are defined and various options possessing these qualities evaluated, the total value of each alternative must be assessed in order to enable option selection that will most effectively achieve the desired results.

StrategyDriven Diversity and Inclusion Forum

“Diversity and inclusion exists when members of an organization act in a manner that recognizes and respects individual similarities and differences such that employees feel they and their work are valued and meaningfully contribute to the mission of the organization.” StrategyDriven Contributors Remaining relevant in today’s hyper-competitive business environment requires the full engagement of an organization’s […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 4 – Prioritize the Mission, part 2 of 2

Prioritize the Mission, part 2 of 2 concludes the Prioritize the Mission series by examining in detail the quantitative and qualitative methods to differentiate important mission-based goals.

StrategyDriven Decision Making Article

Decision-Making – Evaluating Decision Options, part 1 of 3

Decision-making often involves trade-offs. Risk aversion suggests that all things being equal, decision-makers will select the option having the lowest risk. But because all things are never quite equal, decision-makers concede items they deem to be of lesser value to items they believe hold greater value with risk being one of the commodities considered.