Chief Operating Officer

To All Company X employees From Chief Operating Officer... 

Second Highest Executive Salary The next-highest executive salary paid, typically a 2007 amount (or the latest year available to the editors) and typically paid to the President or Chief Operating Officer. 

Chief Operation Officer or Vice President of Operations... 

Chief Operating Officer/President/Chief Financial Officer/Chief Information Officer... 

Some departments, such as marketing, accounting, distribution, human resources, information systems, legal, and operations, are common to most any organization. Each of these departments should have a department head who oversees its direction. The department head then reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) or another person at the top of the organization, such as a chief operating officer (COO) or president. 

Second, he was the choice of the board, not Vagelos. For that matter, he was at least the second choice Vagelos had been grooming a dream team of insiders, including executive vice presidents Jerry T. Jackson, Francis H. Spiegel, Jr., and John L. Zabriskie and—the presumed heir apparent— chief operating officer Richard J. Markham. It was only when those plans fell through and Markham left abruptly for never-explained personal reasons after less than a year as COO, that the board looked outside. 

Chief Operating Officer—Team Health Southwest Houston, Texas... 

CEO s foreword the CER includes a foreword by John Jones (President and Chief Operating Officer) and H.A. Wagner (Chairman of the Board and CEO). 

CEO s foreword the foreword takes the form of specific questions that are answered by Dr Reinhard Handte (Chief Operating Officer). 

These, then, are the three different possible outcomes for a successful start-up biotech or small pharma company. Admittedly, this simplified schema can capture neither the complexities nor the dynamics involved. Thing is, most companies are spinning, bouncing, three steps forward, two steps backward, chaos-in-motion sort of things, notes David Whitman, Chief Operating Officer of Pharmadyn. Each one will find its own unique path to success or a reasonable alternative, but in the end they re hkely to share one of these three common fates, if they stay in business long enough. 

President and Chief Operating Officer for Dow Corning. In 2004 she became Chief Executive Officer, and in 2006 she was elected Chairman. 

Make The management of manufacturing processes both within and external to the organization. This usually also includes the processes of quality management and the orchestration of external relationships with contract manufacturers in the value network. This role typically reports to the chief operating officer. 

Leadership alone is not snfficient. It reqnires a redefinition of incentives. To do this, snpport is needed from the chief operating officer or the chief execntive officer to drive change, ff not, the horizontal coimectors that are essential to the bnilding of market-driven valne networks do not happen. 

Rosaline Parson, Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare Purchasing Alliance LLC... 

Report to the chief operating officer. Horizontal processes will not be successful reporting to a single function. They require leadership. To maximize success, charter the development of cross-functional processes through the supply chain center of excellence reporting to the chief operating officer. 

Another component of the comprehensive patient safety programme has been initiated in four ICU units adopters (current and pending) include the President of the Johns Hopkins University, President of the Johns Hopkins Health System, Chief Operating Officer of the JHH and the Vice President for Hmnan Resources at the JHH This site has provided the organization with a means of disseminating project information and sharing ideas This centre reports to the CEO and university president and provides support for quality and safety improvement initiatives... 

In the summer of 1999,1 was presented with the opportunity to become the chief operating officer for a pediatric health care system. The work gave me the opportunity to apply what I had learned about the organizational elements required for an effective, patient safety-oriented culture ... 

First, we make a general acknowledgment to major contributors to the field of patient safety whose work we have drawn on for this book. Among them are James Reason, Karl Weick, Jens Rasmussen, Richard Cook, David Woods, and Karlene Roberts. Special thanks to Lucian Leape for writing the Foreword he has been not only a pioneer in the field but also a mentor. Don Berwick, president of the Center for Healthcare Improvement, and Jim Conway, chief operating officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston, have made substantial contributions through their work, which appears in this book. 

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