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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

For Mount Franklin Foods, a candy and snack manufacturer headquartered in El Paso, Texas, the years leading up to 2011 were tumultuous. When CEO Gary Ricco joined the company in May of 2011, the company had struggled for years to turn a profit. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

This framework shares some elements with the balanced scorecard concept that was introduced in a seminal 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance , by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand. They engage, tell the big story of why you do what you do, listen, and model desirable behaviors. The Innovation Instigator.