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Complimentary Resource - The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerab…
StrategyDriven | December 5th 2009 by Nathan
The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities by Qualys, Inc. This free guide covers the key aspects of the vulnerability management lifecycle and shows you what reports today’s best-in-class organizations are using to reduce risks on their n read more
Complimentary Resource - Business Process Efficiency: Honing a Co…
StrategyDriven | December 4th 2009 by Nathan
Business Process Efficiency: Honing a Competitive Edge by Adobe Explore how to improve margins, accelerate processing, eliminate errors, and increase customer satisfaction. In today’s hypercompetitive market, financial services companies must learn read more
StrategyDriven Podcasts Receive Top Honors in November
StrategyDriven | December 2nd 2009 by Nathan
The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the second place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast and the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast from among the over 2700 read more
New Whitepaper Release - 80 Percent Efficiency Estimate
StrategyDriven | December 1st 2009 by Nathan
StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of our eighth whitepaper: Resource Projection - 80 Percent Efficiency Estimate. Perfect human efficiency? Not likely. How then should personnel resources be estimated? Human beings are read more
Leadership Inspirations - The Deception of Subtlety
StrategyDriven | November 30th 2009 by Nathan
“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.” Oliver Cromwell First Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland; best known for his involvement in transforming England into a republican Commonwealth &nbs read more
Complimentary Resource - All About ROI Magazine
StrategyDriven | November 29th 2009 by Nathan
All About ROI Magazine by North American Publishing Company Is the practical, information packed publication devoted to helping online merchants, catalogers, retailers and brand marketers tackle industry challenges and discover the opportunities to g read more
Complimentary Resource - Business Guide to Background Checking
StrategyDriven | November 27th 2009 by Nathan
Business Guide to Background Checking by HireRight 10 Best Practices to Begin or Improve Your Background Checking Program. Armed with this important information about employment background checking for businesses, you can feel more confident about yo read more
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 21d - An Interview with Du…
StrategyDriven | November 24th 2009 by Nathan
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 war read more
Leadership Inspirations - Great Minds
StrategyDriven | November 23rd 2009 by Nathan
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady of the United States (1933 - 1945) If you enjoyed this posting, w read more
Complimentary Resource - Shifting the Focus for Profitability
StrategyDriven | November 22nd 2009 by Nathan
Shifting the Focus for Profitability by American Express Today’s midsize companies are enhancing profitability by seeking a wide range of cost-cutting measures. Whether it’s more frequent cost reviews and forecasts, engaging your staff to read more
Complimentary Resource - Are You Leaving No Stone Unturned?
StrategyDriven | November 20th 2009 by Nathan
Are You Leaving No Stone Unturned? by American Express Find out how finance executives are maintaining cash flow - and with it, their companies’ survival - by implementing fresh ideas. Today many finance executives are going “back to basi read more
Self Assessment Program Best Practice 7 - Be Prepared from the St…
StrategyDriven | November 17th 2009 by Nathan
Self assessments aggregate huge amounts of data in order to provide a very few high value insights. (See Figure 1: Data Refinement and Consolidation Model below) As an assessment progresses, evaluators often feel increasingly overwhelmed by the vol read more
Leadership Inspirations - Find a Way
StrategyDriven | November 16th 2009 by Nathan
“When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.” David Weatherford If you enjoyed this posting, we encourage you to become a StrategyDriven Regist read more
Complimentary Resource - How the ABC’s of Leadership Behavior I…
StrategyDriven | November 15th 2009 by Nathan
How the ABC’s of Leadership Behavior Impact Safety Management Systems by DNV This paper focuses on how leadership behaviors as Activators and Consequences support or undermine an effective Safety Management System. The basic ABC’s of trad read more
Complimentary Resource - The High Performance Information Workpla…
StrategyDriven | November 14th 2009 by Nathan
The High Performance Information Workplace: How Social Computing, Team Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management Drive Competitive Advantage by EMC This white paper reviews how utilizing an integrated approach to incorporating content from coll read more
Complimentary Resource - The Pillars of Employee Performance Mana…
StrategyDriven | November 13th 2009 by Nathan
The Pillars of Employee Performance Management for Mid/Large Companies by SumTotal Systems Does your organization consider Employee Performance Management a laborious, tactical annual practice, or is it a strategic, business-critical cycle? Maybe it& read more
Management Observation Program Best Practice 6 - Observation Anno…
StrategyDriven | November 10th 2009 by Nathan
Philosophically speaking, no one, including managers, should ever be afraid to have ‘the boss’ know or observe what he or she is doing. Being human, we naturally feel self imposed pressure to perform well especially when we are being wat read more
Leadership Inspirations - Destiny is a Matter of Choice
StrategyDriven | November 9th 2009 by Nathan
“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan ‘The Great Commoner’ 41st United States Secretary of State &nbs read more
Complimentary Resource - CIO Digest
StrategyDriven | November 8th 2009 by Nathan
CIO Digest by Symantec Corporation Symantec’s quarterly magazine containing strategies and analysis for senior and C-level IT leaders around the world. Each issue of CIO Digest includes an exclusive interview, an industry feature, a solutions f read more
Complimentary Resource - Keeping hold of your customers, especial…
StrategyDriven | November 7th 2009 by Nathan
Keeping hold of your customers, especially in tough economic conditions by Oracle Corporation You know as much as anyone about the challenges faced by midsize organizations. There are always competitors with deeper pockets, customers demanding more f read more
Complimentary Resource - Preparing for the Upswing
StrategyDriven | November 6th 2009 by Nathan
Preparing for the Upswing by American Express Learn how other midsize companies are staying poised for economic recovery by maintaining staff and spending in their most crucial areas. There are always key areas of any business that cannot be cut if t read more
StrategyDriven Podcasts Receive Top Honors in October
StrategyDriven | November 4th 2009 by Nathan
The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast and the fourth place ranking for the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast from among the over 2600 read more
Organizational Performance Measures Warning Flag 1 - Source Data…
StrategyDriven | November 3rd 2009 by Nathan
All organizational performance measurement systems rely foundationally on their source data. And like a house built on sand, these performance measurement systems fail if their source data becomes corrupt. Source data manipulations occur for many rea read more
Leadership Inspirations - Bringing the Future into the Present
StrategyDriven | November 2nd 2009 by Nathan
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein well-known author on personal time management and creator of Lakein’s Question: “What is the best use of my time right n read more
Complimentary Resource - Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Org…
StrategyDriven | November 1st 2009 by Nathan
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations by SAP Learn from today’s sales leaders who have benefited from building a sales strategy based on a position of deep customer knowledge. Maintaining a robust customer database in a CRM tool no read more
Complimentary Resource - Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today…
StrategyDriven | October 30th 2009 by Nathan
Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today And How You Can Avoid Them by SAP When the economy slows, many businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs in order to weather the downturn. While such cost reduction is important, companies often overloo read more
StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 28 - Responsibility-Driven Leaders…
StrategyDriven | October 29th 2009 by Nathan
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 war read more
New Whitepaper Release - Evaluating Decision Options
StrategyDriven | October 27th 2009 by Nathan
StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of our sixth whitepaper: Evaluating Decision Options. Options and Tradeoffs… Decision-making often involves trade-offs. Risk aversion suggests that all things being equal, decision read more
Leadership Inspirations - Shared Intelligence
StrategyDriven | October 26th 2009 by Nathan
“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States and Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - 1919 If you enjoyed this posting, read more
Complimentary Resource - Human Resource Executive Magazine
StrategyDriven | October 25th 2009 by Nathan
Human Resource Executive Magazine by LRP Magazine Group Written primarily for vice presidents and directors of human resources, the magazine provides these key decision-makers with news, profiles of HR visionaries and success stories of human resourc read more
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