Talk:Chief operating officer

COO

Should small Internet companies have a COO? What departments should report to the COO in order for them to true "occupy" this role.

ideas?

• Here's one take on the role (Dept. of Homeland Security): http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04876r.pdf
• and this site (http://www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/descr/1200/1259.htm) lists these primary roles:

1. Advise the CEO on strategic business development and key corporate planning issues and make recommendations on major business decisions.
2. Shape and develop division strategy and organization.
3. Encourage managers to evaluate and take actions that are consistent with DCRI's overall strategy which will lead to high performance.
4. Set performance goals which are tailored to each division.
5. Monitor division performance against performance goals to ensure that progress is being made and collective action - if necessary - is taken.
6. Lead program.-, to build organizational capabilities.

Jeff Worthington 16:55, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

There is no real role title, the COO is an honorific position and the actual responsibilities vary from company to company.

I'm not sure about the inclusion of "CHO" (Chief Hacking Officer). I added a really brief comment in the page it links to, but I actually think it's far too colloquial for inclusion in this list of titles. Sweetman 02:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

'CHO' Deleted - Clearly a neologism. Sweetman 00:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with the Director of Operations redirect to this page. While a COO has responsibilities across the business, the DirOps is a simple infrastructure management role. I have no idea how to disable that redirect but if I did I would do it now and create a stub for Director of Operations. Any comment before I go to the trouble? Paulvallee 17:44, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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From the article:

COOs ideally need to have domain knowledge of the business & industry, understand modern management theories (Total Quality Management, Kaizen), employ process/quality improvement techniques (business process reengineering, Six Sigma) and sometimes quality process standards if required by customers or desired by the company (ISO 9001).

Says who? Georgebaily (talk) 15:23, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Updateing page

I'm in the process of doing research and revisions to this article, I will post updates as I progress through. Jonathan (talk) 16:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Too many deletions?

What were the reasons behind the deletions that occured after the revision as of '18:53, 15 September 2011'? That revision seemed to provide a lot of information while the current does not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.250.1.121 (talk)

I agree with that assessment; and, checking this talk history, the comments from the editor, were removed with the notation that by the removal, it didn't better the article. I will be restoring the edits shortly. Jonathan (talk) 19:56, 10 November 2011 (UTC)