Chiefofstaff.com – Helping senior leaders in complex organizations implement their strategic plans

The Silicon Review

Chiefofstaff.com flexibly adapts to your unique plan and empowers your people to handle more complexity while staying aligned with, and focused on your priorities. It creates a social network focused on plan execution that engages and harnesses your team’s collective intelligence. You receive briefings 24/7 based on real-time feedback from your front lines.

ChiefofStaff.com’s cloud-based strategy execution software enables C-suite executives to lead in today’s VUCA world. They can lead strategy execution with a cloud-based system flexibly and make complexity manageable for themselves and their workforce. Top management who introduce a cloud-based strategy execution system:

Empower their managers and employees with better direction and focus.
Communicate strategy initiatives and progress on these initiatives in an integrated and compelling fashion.
Effectively integrate many other digitized systems such as ERP, Accounting, Sales, and HR systems

Chiefofstaff.com’s cloud-based strategy execution system offers 24/7 company-wide insight into the strategic initiatives and their progress towards completion. Cross-functional dependencies are transparent, and cross-functional leadership and coordination are part of the system. The result is more control – not the type of control that suffocates and micromanages, but that instead liberates and unleashes the creative potential of the workforce to deliver results. The company-wide transparency of the objectives, milestones, networks of people involved in projects, and accountability provides both more control and delegation to an empowered workforce. Clarity of purpose and direction brings out the best in people!

Q. What makes Chiefofstaff.com unique?

Chiefofstaff.com is an elegant senior management tool unlike any other in the marketplace today. Here’s what makes them unique:

Support Complexity: Chiefofstaff.com is specifically designed to support complex organizations with multiple layers, especially across all functional areas.

Two-Way Communication: Chiefofstaff.com is specifically designed for an organization’s senior leaders, yet enables enhanced two-way communications and connection to strategic initiatives for all levels of staff within the organization. This dramatically increases success in delivering your plans.

Fully Customizable: Chiefofstaff.com is highly customizable and fully adaptable to any client plans and environments. There are no rigid templates. Their software integrates with your organization – not the other way around.

Fully Compatible with Your Other Programs: Chiefofstaff.com is compatible with and sits above any project management product(s) currently in place. This eliminates the need for a major shift away from systems already deployed and the need for broad-scale new user education.

Onboarding Support: Chiefofstaff.com includes onboarding support. Chiefofstaff.com’s experts take your plans and fully onboard them onto the Chiefofstaff.com platform. They set you up within 30 business days or less so you can easily gain a clear line of sight across your organization.

Lower Per-User Cost: Chiefofstaff.com offers an unlimited user license option to ensure all employees who should be part of a planning community are connected, at a low per-user cost.

Structuring Organization’s Plan and Link Initiatives to Priorities

The power of Chiefofstaff.com’s solution: First, they help you organize and structure the main categories of your strategic plan, like creating the chapters of a book. Your strategic initiatives are then mapped to these “driver” categories and linked to the most important priorities of your business. This allows your strategic initiatives to be assigned and tracked across your organization and teams. This is what they mean by making them actionable or “operationalized”. They begin with your overall strategic goals in each business unit and then establish drivers which in turn house initiatives to support those goals. Once your plans are structured, their intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard allows you to access all of your plan data in any form that’s relevant to you.

Chiefofstaff.com gives your teams a platform to provide status updates on their assigned initiatives. A full array of custom reports and heat maps are easily generated, no matter how complex, diverse or numerous your business units are. That means you can easily view progress on all your goals and priorities. Your team members update the status of their assigned initiatives in the Chiefofstaff.com shared interface, increasing transparency and accountability. Perhaps most importantly, Chiefofstaff.com’s dashboard allows each team member to see how their assignments relate to overall plan drivers and strategy.

About | Robert Epner

Robert Epner is the Founder and CEO if chiefofstaff.com. He has over 20 years of related senior management experience, having held multiple leadership positions at ING Global including Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff for ING Investment Management. From 2002 to 2008 he was based at ING’s Asia/Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, where he held the positions of Chief of Staff and Regional Chief Operating Officer overseeing 24 businesses across twelve countries with over 10,000 employees. Bob’s tenure with ING began in 1999 when he joined the Americas regional office in strategic marketing.

Robert played a key leadership role during the $7.7 billion Aetna Financial acquisition, which included assets in the United States, Asia, and Latin America. He subsequently led the successful Integration Team with ING’s new joint venture partner Sul America, the largest insurance company in Brazil. Before joining ING, Bob held senior positions at MetLife in both their New York and Hong Kong offices; marketing positions at GE Major Appliance; and a strategy consultant role for the Michael Allen Company. He holds an MBA in finance from New York University and a BS in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School.