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Score More in 2024: 24 Innovative Leadership Goals for the New Year

Modern Servant Leader

Implement Agile Practices : Popular in IT circles, more businesses are implementing Agile business practices. Measurement: Percentage of successful projects applying Agile methods. Establish a framework for all key goals that includes both Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

While establishing a long term vision for all employees to understand is still very important, the strategic planning horizon in the new paradigm needs to be shorter term, agile and rapidly adaptive. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor. In the new paradigm it is a core capability.

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Marissa Mayer Is No Fool

Harvard Business Review

The (far) more interesting counterfactual would have been a leaked memo declaring that telecommuters and virtual teams were — by far — the most agile, innovative and productive performers at Yahoo. Why would Mayer minimize what she had experienced as a critical success factor?

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Tackle Your Culture Renovation

Skip Prichard

And yet organizational culture is a critical success factor to nearly everything. His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

So while strategic investments should be evaluated on how they could be used to achieve strategic objectives and meet key business drivers (and then their success in doing so), support investments should be assessed on their ability to produce demonstrable reductions in costs. Implementation criteria. Development approaches.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. By far the best synthesis and summary of the digital keys to the campaign's success is Engage DC's Inside the Cave. They're right. But, actually, they're thinking too small.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). The first key ingredient is in how teams are selected. .”