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The Benefits Of A Formal Strategy Execution Process

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Scott Cleveland reports that a managing director of the Palladium Group (think: balanced scorecard) conducted a survey that compared two groups, one with and one without a formal strategy execution process in place. A formal process in their terminology means: "strategy maps, derived projects and process improvements from it, and associated key performance indicators (KPIs) with targets reported in scorecard dashboards and cascaded down into the organization.".

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March Edition of the Strategy Execution Newsletter - Now Available

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The March 2011 edition of the Six Disciplines Strategy Execution newsletter with a focus on Performance Measurement - is now available for viewing. To sign up for the monthly newsletter, here's all you need to do: NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP. Full Name. Email Address. Enter Word Verification in box below. {module_captchav2}.

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Executive Coaching - Worth The Money

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A Wall Street Journal article invited readers to comment on " Executive Coaching - Worth The Money? ". Here's our view of executive coaching: Executive coaching is a good first step, but it’s kind of like treating the symptom, not the real problem. What perhaps makes more sense is to work on solving the one business problem, that if solved, makes all the other problems – easier.

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Research - What Top Performing Businesses Do Right

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A survey conducted by Six Disciplines reveals what top-performing organizations do differently, and provides insights for business leaders who want to know where they should focus their efforts going forward. The original survey, conducted several years ago with over 300 C-level executives from small and midsized businesses, has now been re-published by Six Disciplines, in an effort to share the insightful results, and to validate the original research findings.

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Research - Where The Lowest Performing Businesses Go Wrong

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A survey conducted by Six Disciplines reveals what bottom-performing organizations do differently, and provides insights for business leaders who want to know where they should focus their efforts going forward. The original survey, conducted several years ago with over 300 C-level executives from small and midsized businesses, has now been re-published by Six Disciplines, in an effort to share the insightful results, and to validate the original research findings.

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Why We Resist Weekly Planning - And What We Can Do About It

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A while back, there was an insightful article, " Why We Resist the Weekly Review and Plan (and What You Can Do About It)". The author's premise? "Regardless of whether you are keeping your life organized using the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology or the FranklinCovey methodology, a central component of both systems is the “weekly review” or the “weekly plan” For many practitioners, this is the single most difficult discipline and yet also the most crucial discipline.