The Blendification System: Activating Potential by Connecting Culture, Strategy, and Execution

Shelving Guide: Business and Management / Strategic Planning / Leadership / Operations

Culture, Strategy, Execution. These three components forge the path to realized potential.

The Blendification(R) System breaks down and rebuilds these core concepts within your company’s DNA, setting the foundation for an energizing, engaging, and impactful organization. It is based on the belief that many organizations fail to maximize their potential because they simply do not comprehend the magnitude of their personal and collective untapped capabilities.

Many workplaces are stuck in ＂second gear,＂ not quite embracing and pursuing their full potential. Corporate missions are based on market dominance and incremental profit growth, leaving a massive blind spot in terms of the connection between employees, customers, and communities. This short-sightedness may provide a clear focal point, but it leaves the company, its leadership, and its employees with limited sustained motivation to realize potential.

The Blendification(R) System embraces the connection between culture, strategy, and execution using the Strategy Whiteboard and integrating emotional and system intelligence into the following three-step model:

• Strategic Analysis including Culture
• Strategic Focus, Strategic Outcomes, and Strategic Actions
• Strategic Execution

The Blendification(R) System connects culture, strategy, and execution in a meaningful way that fosters an inspired, exceptional workforce. By focusing on the unifying purpose within each organization, the platform promotes alignment between leadership and employees setting a clear, strong foundation in which every individual can thrive. With this foundation in place, organizations activate their employee’s potential who then take care of their customers. By fully engaging those with whom organizations directly interact, these individuals then become the spark that ignites community-wide advancement.

This is not a theory-based, philosophical book. This is an in-depth operating system by which organizations reshape their infrastructure to realize potential. The methodology outlined in The Blendification(R) System creates agile and efficient action, maximizing success in periods of economic expansion and times of uncertainty such as the COVID-19 outbreak, the Great Recession, and 9/11. By following the structure outlined in The Blendification(R) System and using the Strategy Whiteboard, organizations will move beyond financial success to uplifting employees, customers, and entire communities.

Dan Bruder and his advisory firm, Fusion Dynamics Group, are focused on activating potential by connecting culture, strategy, and execution. Dan believes companies have a substantial impact on communities through their products and people. Accordingly, his company’s cause is to create a world where leaders of workplace organizations embrace the opportunity to be the spark that builds people, companies, families, and communities (Leadership Multiplier). He has a broad range of experience with a background in Executive Leadership, Strategic Planning, Sales and Marketing Operations, Brand Development, Customer Service, and Corporate Finance.

He started his career in banking becoming president in his 20s and later transitioned into leadership roles with a global hospitality company before moving into entrepreneurial ventures and developing an international consulting practice.

Consistent with this book The Blendification System: Activating Potential by Connecting Culture, Strategy, and Execution, Dan’s consulting practice supports the following programs to help organizations realize their potential: Culture Component, Strategy Component, and Execution Component. These programs leverage eLearning technology, dynamic team workshops, and internal peer accountability groups enabling companies to develop an aligned focus with built-in leadership development, communication, and accountability. This book also serves as the platform for teaching Capstone Strategic Planning in the Executive MBA and Early Career MBA programs at Colorado State University. Additionally, Dan is a faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the graduate Leeds School of Business teaching entrepreneurship.

He has an MBA from the University of Central Florida with a concentration in Economics along with a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the same university. Dan resides in Colorado with his family.