StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 – Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 defines what horizontally shared performance measures are and identifies the benefits of employing shared measures.

Recommended Resource – The Welch Way

The Welch Way a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast by Jack and Suzy Welch About the Reference The Welch Way is a weekly BusinessWeek column and podcast authored by former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review, Suzy Welch. These articles cover a wide range of business […]

StrategyDriven Resource Projection Article

Resource Projection Best Practice 4 – 80 Percent Efficiency Estimate

Human beings are social creatures having both emotional and physical needs. Businesses able to satisfy these needs will be better positioned to attract and retain talented personnel; giving these businesses a much needed advantage in the increasingly knowledge driven marketplace where human resources are increasingly limited. Such organizations will further benefit from increased worker engagement because employees feel more connected and valued.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 8 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 3 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 8 – Focuses on how to assess a performance measurement system for completeness and align it to individuals at various levels of an organization.

Recommended Resource – One Foot Out The Door

One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business by Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D. About the Reference One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business by Dr. Judith M. Bardwick examines the changing employment relationship between […]

StrategyDriven Portfolio Management Forum

Executives and managers of organizations both large and small manage portfolios of assets and activities representing what the business is and what it does. Managed well, these portfolios directly support the effective and efficient achievement of mission goals. Managed poorly, these portfolios target achievement of differing and sometimes competing objectives or inappropriately expend resources on low […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 7 – Vertically Cascading Organizational Performance Measures, part 2 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 7 focuses on the five step process for creating a vertically cascaded performance measurement system anchored on the organization’s mission goals.

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.