547 words, 2.0 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk
Strategic Planning 1 big thing: Lead annual budget planning for the function, including financial and workforce management.
The big picture: Guarantee your company maintains rigorous analytical and data synthesis skills; develops pro forma and other decision support models to guide strategy and key operational decisions.
Why it matters: Invest in managing the strategic planning process including key enterprise initiatives to develop a clear vision of the departments objectives and to address all regulatory requirements related to privacy and security.
What we’re hearing: “Make headway so that your staff serves as strategic advisor bringing diverse perspective to leverage multiple ways of thinking while developing end user focused process solution.“, Thomas W. – Consulting Corporate Development – Investment Center of Excellence Senior Consultant
The backdrop: Serve as enterprise data ethics officer to ensure ethical principles and considerations are embedded at every state of the enterprise data supply chain; including product, research, service, and digital data delivery.
On the flip side: Make certain that your process is involved in in design business processes, system requirements, and understanding software solution capabilities that enable new operating models ERP, planning solutions, etc.
Between the lines: Make sure there is involvement in developing portfolio evaluations, strategic assessments, business cases with involvement in organizational alignment, influencing decisions and proposal of actionable recommendations.
Go deeper: Evaluate help develop business cases and roadmaps for cloud adoption, migration, transformation and innovation initiatives, advise (internal) clients on costs and support budget planning activities.
Be smart: Develop an IT metric dashboard, develop a process to gather and review on a regular cadence and ensure regular reporting of metrics, performance measures that support business objectives and results.
Under the hood: Ensure you are able to intake and consume complex B2B topics and solutions, transforming them into simple and inspiring ideas that enterprise audiences find useful and informative.
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State of play: Partner with hiring managers and talent acquisition partners to promote, retain, recruit, and attract high potential talent at all levels in your organization.
Yes, but: Establish that your group facilitates events facilitates team meetings, including (where applicable) the Daily Stand up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
How it works: Manage the entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical activities management including strategy, development, pricing, launch, maintenance, or enhancement of products/solutions in the context of a cross functional business team.
The bottom line: Ensure your portfolio focuses on delivering value in areas of continuous optimization of plant operation, comprehensive preventive maintenance and the fastest possible repairs.
What’s next: Ensure strong communicator: You are clear and concise in communicating statuses required actions and are leading presenting across multiple levels of the business.
ICYMI: Secure that your group advises management of the status of work in progress, coordinates with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain and interfaces with engineering and program management as well as external (internal) customers.
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