USPS Launches New DRIVE Approach To Strategy Execution

In many ways you have to tip your hat to the post office. Despite plunging revenue and well publicized internal issues, they are persistent in coming up with ways to save their business. Perhaps it’s time they change their motto to: We wont go gently into that good night!

‘DRIVE’ to Success

As the relentless reduction of mail volume continues — fueled primarily by the continuing decline of First-Class Mail — USPS continues to look for ways to more effectively manage its challenges and to forge effective solutions for the future.

This process begins at the top of the Postal Service’s leadership, which has been working since earlier this summer on a new effort called “Delivering Results, Innovation, Value and Efficiency” DRIVE.Administered by the Postal Service’s Strategic Planning department, the DRIVE process is based on a well-established methodology used by many corporations to improve the development and execution of major business strategies. The version of DRIVE the Postal Service has created is centered on a set of 36 strategic initiatives, each guided by a senior USPS executive and supported by a cross-functional team of subject-expert managers. The ambitious initiatives — ranging from network optimization to executive transparency — include cost cutting, revenue generation, and capability enhancement necessary for the organization’s success.

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