Growth Strategies: Getting the Right People Part #4
This is the fourth in a series of posts on Growth Strategies: How to get the right mix of people to grow your company. So far we have covered questions about technical expertise, culture and the most...
View ArticleStrategic Planning: How one manufacturer found new revenue and profit hiding...
The general manager of a small US division of a multibillion dollar European manufacturing company came up to me one day after a strategy program. He was trying to figure out how to increase their...
View ArticleStrategic Planning helps manufacturer compete successfully
Once upon a time, the third generation CEO of A Midwestern USA machinery manufacturer was in a fast downhill spiral, losing money rapidly due to strong competition in Europe and the strong US dollar...
View ArticleStrategic Planning: It’s Not Too Late
Don’t Panic. It’s not too late to do your strategic planning for 2014. In this short video, Dr. Sarah Layton gives you four tips to make your planning process effective and the plan successful. The...
View ArticleFive Ways To Move Strategy From Boardroom Talk to Execution
CEO.com: Read Hope is not a strategy. Boards of Directors will often establish a general plan and simply hope the executive team will know how to implement it to achieve the intended results....
View ArticleThe Smart Sensors are Coming… The Smart Sensors are coming…
Just returned from a meeting updating the Central Florida community on the progress of a project that will create a state-of-the-art manufacturing research and incubation facility in Florida. The idea...
View ArticleValue Innovation: An Introduction (First of three presentation videos)
If you are a senior executive, your expertise is critical both to the firm’s bottom line and to its future. Do you drive the quest for value and value innovation in your organization? Maybe it’s time...
View ArticleValue Innovation: Making it work in your organization (Part 2 of 3)
Where do you start if you want to develop a climate conducive to value innovation in your organization? Here are four simple ways you can promote and enhance value innovation in your organization....
View ArticlePerfection: Is the impact positive or negative? Results may surprise you
The other night on Shark Tank, Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary, admonished one of the entrepreneurs, an obvious perfectionist, that “Perfection is the enemy of profit”. It wasn’t until later that evening...
View ArticleValue Innovation: – Where are the opportunities in your organization? Part 3...
In our 2 companion videos we gave an introduction to Value Innovation and also showed ways To Make Value Innovation Work In Your Organization, Once that culture is established, you can look to find...
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