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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 3 – An Interview with Forrest Breyfogle, author of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics

Strategy Driven

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. Integrated Enterprise Excellence, Volume I – The Basics : Golfing Buddies Go Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Set Goals That Lead ).

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Set Goals That Lead ).

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

By the end of 2011, the company had gained some ground, but it was clear a change in management style and better decisions at the top would not be enough to realize the improvements that were needed to turn the company around. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

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.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. And it quite effectively served its murderous goal.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Instigator. The Innovation Manager.