StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 13 - Introduction to Strategic Analysis

Strategic Analysis, StrategyDriven Podcast

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 13 - Introduction to Strategic Analysis serves as a foundation for the upcoming series of podcasts focused on the best practices associated with strategic analysis. This discussion…

  • defines what a strategic analysis is
  • describes the components of this in-depth examination of the organization and its business environment
  • identifies how strategic analysis helps an organization become more strategy driven

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Howard T. Dickens Jr. is Vice President of P Enterprises and co-Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. A dynamic public speaker, facilitator, and training consultant, he has shared his insights with hundreds of executives and managers at all organizational levels; helping them develop motivational leadership behaviors, cultural competence, and the ability to manage workplace conflict. To read Howard’s complete biography, click here.

Nathan A. Ives is a Strategy & Operations Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, a StrategyDriven contributor, and co-Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over fifteen years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at numerous Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

 
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Portfolio Management - Managing Shared, Perishable Resources

Portfolio Management

Portfolio managers direct deployment of assigned resources across the several programs, projects, and processes they oversee in a manner that maximizes the organization’s return on investment. (See Figure 1) Complicating the portfolio manager’s work is the myriad of differing resource types; resources that are often limited and shared by the portfolio’s many components.

All work requires resources for its performance. Resource types can be generally categorized as:

  • Personnel - skilled labor and knowledge resources
  • Equipment - tools, software applications, and facilities resources
  • Material - land, parts and components, commodity materials and supplies, data, and intellectual property resources
  • Financial - cash, credit, and other financial instrument resources

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 12 - One Source of the Truth

Organizational Performance Measures, StrategyDriven Podcast

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 12 - One Source of the Truth elaborates on Organizational Performance Measure Best Practice 5 - One Source of the Truth. This discussion…

  • defines what one source of the truth is
  • identifies the benefits of applying the one source of the truth principle
  • describes the guiding principles to put one source of the truth into practice

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Howard T. Dickens Jr. is Vice President of P Enterprises and co-Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. A dynamic public speaker, facilitator, and training consultant, he has shared his insights with hundreds of executives and managers at all organizational levels; helping them develop motivational leadership behaviors, cultural competence, and the ability to manage workplace conflict. To read Howard’s complete biography, click here.

Nathan A. Ives is a Strategy & Operations Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, a StrategyDriven contributor, and co-Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over fifteen years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at numerous Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

 
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Decision-Making Warning Flag 1a - The Gambler’s Fallacy

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