Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Find out more today.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

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.

Review 80

Review Technology Strategy Books 80

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name.

Creative Accounting 14

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

It is nearly impossible to translate — let alone execute – a strategy that you don’t understand. McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. This is a subtle, but important nuance.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14