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Competitive pressures are forcing executives to react faster to changing business conditions and customer requirements. Line managers and decision-makers need to have an efficient and effective system for day-to-day business operation with access to performance metrics that lead to the most appropriate activities.

In July 2008, we were privileged to host Forrest Breyfogle, Founder and CEO of Smarter Solutions and author of The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System series on the StrategyDriven Podcast. During our interview, Forrest shared his insights on using the Integrated Enterprise Excellence System (IEE) to improve business performance beyond that achievable through use of Lean Six Sigma or The Balanced Scorecard alone. IEE combines the best practices of earlier tools and methods, like Lean Six Sigma, with innovative analytical techniques to drive financial and operational success at the enterprise level and achieve the three Rs of business, everyone doing the Right things the Right way at the Right time.

And now Forrest is offering a one-day executive seminar where participants will learn how to implement The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System to:

• increase productivity and eliminate daily firefighting and non-value add activities from business processes
• sustain a consistent, high-performance team environment and culture
• improve top- and bottom-line strategies and results in a fierce competitive and global market
• improve the measurement criteria and report out of high-level business metrics
• achieve and execute repeatable, strategic business plans

Seminar Details

This session is open to the public and complimentary for leading influencers and decision-makers. Please call (512) 918-0280 to determine if you qualify for this complimentary session.

Executive One-Day: Achieving Enterprise Excellence

Date:
January 23, 2009

Time:
8 am to 5 pm

Location:
Smarter Solutions, Inc.
11044 Research Blvd.
Suite B-400
Austin, Texas 78759

Contact:
(512) 918-0280

Pre-Registration:
http://www.smartersolutions.com/registrationform.htm

Additional Resource

Find out more about The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System by listening to StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 3 - An Interview with Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics.

Additional Information

Forrest details how to implement The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System in his four book series which can be purchase by clicking on the following links:

• The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System: An Enhanced, Unified Approach to Balanced Scorecards, Strategic Planning, and Business Improvement
• Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I - The Basics: Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
• Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume II - Business Deployment: A Leaders’ Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard
• Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume III - Improvement Project Execution: A Management and Black Belt Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard

Complimenting the outstanding insights contained within The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System series and our special edition StrategyDriven Podcast are the organizational performance improvement materials and resources found on his website, Smarter Solutions (www.SmarterSolutions.com).

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Forrest W. Breyfogle III, author of The Integrated Enterprise Excellence System series, is CEO of Smarter Solutions, a global management coaching and consulting firm specializing in the design and application of innovative enterprise-wide performance measures and business solutions. For over 15 years, Forrest has advised company leaders and their teams on how to improve their organization’s performance through the use of his Integrated Enterprise Excellence System. In 2004, Forrest received the prestigious Crosby Medal from the American Society for Quality for his earlier book, Implementing Six Sigma. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Texas Center for Performance Excellence. To read Forrest’s full biography, click here.

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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 warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 7b - An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, part 2 of 2 examines how exit planning helps business owners preserve their illiquid business wealth and achieve their post business ownership goals. During our discussion, John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth: A Strategic Guide for Owners and Their Advisors and owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, shares with us his insights regarding…

• benefits of employing a multidiscipline advisory team to support exit planning
• the optimal time to begin exit planning
• how often to review and update, if necessary, your business exit plan
• key market trends to consider and monitor when executing an exit strategy

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights John shares in Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website (www.ExitingYourBusiness.com). John’s book, Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, can be purchased by clicking here.

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John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, is the owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, an exit strategies firm specializing in exit strategy design and execution services for advisors and their privately held business owner clients. He previously served as a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and was an adjunct professor at Suffolk University where he taught Private Finance to MBA students as well as Certified Financial Planning courses to undergraduates. To read John’s full 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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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 warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 7a - An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, part 1 of 2 examines how exit planning helps business owners preserve their illiquid business wealth and achieve their post business ownership goals. During our discussion, John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth: A Strategic Guide for Owners and Their Advisors and owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, shares with us his insights regarding…

• what exit planning is
• the five exit options
• identification of the best exit option given the business owner’s personal and financial readiness and goals
• the impact of taxes on exit option selection

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights John shares in Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website (www.ExitingYourBusiness.com). John’s book, Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, can be purchased by clicking here.

Final Request…

The strength of our community grows with the additional insights brought by our expanding member base. Please consider voting for us on Podcast Alley by clicking here. Casting your vote for the StrategyDriven Podcast improves our ranking and helps us attract new listeners which, in turn, helps us grow our community.

Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, is the owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, an exit strategies firm specializing in exit strategy design and execution services for advisors and their privately held business owner clients. He previously served as a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and was an adjunct professor at Suffolk University where he taught Private Finance to MBA students as well as Certified Financial Planning courses to undergraduates. To read John’s full 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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Some pictures are truly worth more than a thousand words…

At StrategyDriven, our goal is to provide you with actionable strategic business planning and tactical execution tools that support achievement of the next level of business success. We recognize, however, that some concepts are more easily understood if they are seen rather than simply heard or read.

And so, coming soon in 2009, StrategyDriven contributors will launch the StrategyDriven Podcast - Video Edition.

 
Like our articles and audio podcasts, these videos illustrate the best practices that help create a clear, forward-looking business strategy translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members. Through the power of video, StrategyDriven Podcast - Video Edition episodes will go one step further; bringing together several best practice concepts to paint a complete picture optimized business processes and practices.

So, stay tuned for the StrategyDriven Podcast - Video Edition, coming soon in 2009!

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All too often, strategic planning coordinators are frustrated by an inability to coordinate critical meetings such that all required individuals are able to attend. While strategic planning should be a high priority for all executives and senior managers, so are a great number of other tasks. To ensure the needed executives and managers are available, thereby making the most effective use of their time, it is important to schedule these critical meetings far in advance. By using strategic planning calendars, coordinators will have the prerequisite insight to schedule meetings far enough in advance to avoid conflict with other priority gatherings.

Strategic planning calendars often exist for long-range, annual, and quarterly/monthly meetings. Meetings occurring weekly or more frequently should be set up on a recurring basis, often at the same time each week, for optimal planning purposes. Activities associated with the three strategic planning calendars include such items as:

• Long-Range: vision and mission validation, long-range objective goal setting, strategic resource and long-range budget projection development, long-range plan development/renewal
• Annual: annual executive offsite retreat, annual goal setting, resourcing, and budget development, ongoing initiative validation and new initiative development, annual plan development, Board of Directors meeting (plan approval), annual shareholders meeting
• Quarterly/Monthly: initiative progress/status reporting, state of the business reviews, market and competitor updates (may be part of the more routine meetings depending on the organization’s completive landscape), Board of Directors and committee meetings/updates

These calendars should exist at each level of the organization conducting business planning activities. Scheduled meetings should be coordinated between organizational levels such that subordinate groups meet first and report results to associated senior groups at their subsequent corresponding meeting.

Once identified, each strategic planning meeting should be assessed to ensure only the participants required to ensure an efficient, successful outcome are invited. These meetings should then be scheduled far enough in advance to avoid significant conflict with or the need to work around other important prescheduled events. Using strategic planning calendars in this way will help ensure the right people are available for the organization’s important strategic planning meetings.

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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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