Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2011

Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explains why management teams must ask themselves tough strategy questions. During this interview, Robert covers: obstacles business leaders face when executing their business strategy. why companies need to focus on one primary customer. the importance in choosing which among shareholders, customers, or employees are most important to the company’s success. how executives should dec

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2011

Harassment litigation represents a catastrophic failure of an organization’s diversity and inclusion program. In these circumstances, the organization not only fell short of excellent performance but realized such aberrant behavior as to be non-compliant with applicable laws. Such occurrences not only represent large one-time costs associated with reduced productivity, heightened distraction, and elevated attrition.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2011

The 21st-century CMO : How Digital Marketing is Driving Organization Transformation. by Adobe. Learn how to take full ownership of customer experience management. This paper highlights the advances in closed-loop marketing that enable measurement and optimization of digital marketing efforts. It also describes the challenges that CMOs face when pursuing digital marketing strategies and how next-generation WCM solutions help CMOs overcome those challenges.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2011

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?&#. Frank Scully (1892 – 1964). Author. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2011

Conditions for Empowerment. We realize that so far this empowerment process looks fairly easy. Set the goals for everyone, establish their boundaries, and set ‘em all loose. As you might guess, it isn’t quite that simple. But it’s not too far off really. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers by John Cioffi. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers offers six commonsense habits that create a systematic framework useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and executives, providing them with: Clear hard-hit

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2011

All business operations consume a portion of the organization’s limited resources and each presents its own value proposition. However, the strategic planning process often only considers newly presented initiatives and available resources in excess of those consumed by core business processes and previously approved ongoing initiatives. Such practices prevent organization leaders from considering the return on investment of emerging opportunities relative to those established functions; returns

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Everybody loves Bob. He’s a corporate hero. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. Instead he was thinking about work, as he does most nights. Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2011

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.&#. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790). Founding Father of the United States and. author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2011

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading introduces a method of self-reflection and growth that individuals can use to become better leaders and to f

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2011

Goals and Boundaries. We’re going to use some diagrams to show you how this all works. In all of the diagrams, we use a target as a symbol for the goals of the position and an ‘X’ as a symbol for the starting place of the person in that position (they are about to begin to achieve their goals). Figure 1: Manager’s Route to a Goal. Manager’s route to a goal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2011

Alternative selection requires choices to be made between competing initiatives. Such choices necessitate a common comparative basis on which the value of each initiative is judged. Key to achieving this state is the application of common market and organizational assumptions and variables from which each initiative’s value is calculated. Without this commonality, initiative owners would likely apply assumptions favoring their initiative’s value calculation and thus diminish the leadership team’

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2011

StrategyDriven is honored to have our non-subscriber content included on LeadershipDigital , a topic hub that collects and organizes the best business and leadership articles on the web in order to advantage its audience of executives and managers. Topic Hubs are sites that aggregate content from a variety of sources, organize that content around keywords in the topic domain, and support both manual and social curation of the content.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2011

“It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.&#. Carveth Read (1848 – 1931). 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at the University College London.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

What role do capabilities play in successful mergers? Too big to fail has proven to be a flawed notion. In Advantaged Capabilities , Booz & Company partners Gerald Adolph and Paul Leinwand conclude their discussion on the role of capabilities in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and explain why pursuing a capabilities-driven M&A strategy produces more successful companies that enjoy a right to win.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2011

Winning in Today’s Environment : Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer. by Oracle Corporation. Learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization. To quote Charles Dickens, is it the best of times or the worst of times? Well, for leading sales executives there has never been a greater opportunity to convert their organization’s top challenges into decisive opportunities they can leverage to gain measurable competitive adva

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2011

“There are no victims, only volunteers.&#. Original Author Unknown. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

This essay uses grammar as an analogy for looking new ways at how business is conducted. Strategy development requires the mining the gold within any organization and seeking new outcomes via creative applications of ideas. Times of crisis and economic downturn get people thinking differently about the conduct of business. Organizations say that they need to re-evaluate and get back to basics, that nothing is guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Even if your corporate culture leaves a lot to be desired, managers can create a localized environment that inspires your employees to achieve peak performance. It’s a fact that I discovered over and over in my work for JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and other companies with high-performing cultures: the vast majority of your employees want to work in a place where people care about customers and each other, are fully engaged, take pride in their work, and feel the obligation to continually impr

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. At any point, each program or business unit is in a different phase from the others. Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree TM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. It’s not that some organizations ‘click’ and others do not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

Our understanding of pricing has come a long way since 1890 when Alfred Marshall published his treatise on the economic scissors of supply and demand. Pricing is no longer a purely economic challenge to be addressed through studies of market elasticity. It can’t be solved by lowering prices until customers’ purchases improve factory utilization rates.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2011

Selling Through A Slump : An Industry-by-Industry Playbook to Help You Prepare for the Recovery. by Oracle Corporation. Selling in today’s economy is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in a tough market. There are important dos and don’ts in times like these. This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2011

The StrategyDriven family is proud to introduce Rachelle Zimmerman as our Website Editor! As StrategyDriven ’s Website Editor, she oversees all online content development and publishing. Rachelle is a connoisseur of various online marketing methodologies. She has consulted with numerous firms and contributed to the development and implementation of their marketing strategies, specifically for search engine optimization and social media marketing, in order to expand their web presence and v

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker.

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