Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). ”Overall, I found this book to be well-organized, yet a slow read because my brain kept exploding with ideas while reading selected units.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “What makes this book unique, not to mention worthwhile?

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In Death by Meeting , Patrick Lencioni provides an effective meeting model, but it doesn’t work for all organizations or every type of meeting. Some of these meetings may be right for your organization, and others may not. Consider adding new ones or canceling others based upon your organization’s particular needs.

Balanced Scorecard 79

Balanced Scorecard Review Strategic Planning Real Estate 79

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you sometimes feel like your organization is flailing, barely able to keep up with the pace of change? And organizations need more individual leaders who can help everyone navigate through the new, speeded-up and volatile world. The Innovation Manager. Have you been disrupted recently? You are not alone.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Putting executives in charge of improving cross-functional processes in large organizations is akin to asking them to paddle a boat upstream. The natural forces in the organization will tend to frustrate their every attempt to coordinate activities across functional boundaries. Process owners misunderstand their role.

Process 15

Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

You might expect organizations that teach the latest in leadership theory to practice what they preach. There is a raft of research showing that improving gender balance leads to enhanced business performance. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area, and it will take leadership. It ain’t happening.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Case Study Organizational Behavior Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle? Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. This scorecard defined the "what." This is a long-term growth company.

Mission Statement 16

Mission Statement Balanced Scorecard Objective Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Much of the Anglo-Saxon debate about "women in leadership" is framed as an issue of women's "choices." The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Have you celebrated organizations that succeeded? Any company or organization is like a tree. Courage and leadership. I remarked to Sonny that I often quoted his song “The Beat Goes On” as analogous to change management, and he was pleased. Are you a legend? Do you admire people who went the distance? by Hank Moore.

Balanced Scorecard 72

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

John Cassidy has eloquently argued in the New Yorker that banks are largely "socially useless" organizations, which create what Ive termed thin value — they blow up every few years, when their "profits" are revealed to be as bogus as a three dollar bill, and people and societies are left holding the bag.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

CO2

APRIL 18, 2012

What is fascinating is how often this effort fails not in determining the path forward for the business but in disseminating the information broadly and effectively to all the members of the organization that were not part of the decision making team. j) Use electronic score board on video monitors throughout organization.

Strategic Planning 145

Strategic Planning Planning Strategy Balanced Scorecard 145

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As for more serious stuff, youll have to wait until March for Ran Spieglers upcoming book, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization. As for more serious stuff, youll have to wait until March for Ran Spieglers upcoming book, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization.

Retail 14

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. And the most-successful managers must change similarly as they assume additional or different responsibilities through their careers, moving from head of sales to COO or from CFO to CEO. Complement this organization model with operational process.

Agility 15

Agility Balanced Scorecard COO CFO 15

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

When people are aligned and prepared to make decisions, organizations and their employees act purposefully and swiftly. Predictably Unpredictable Organizations like to plan for predictable growth, and yet most organizations don’t grow or shrink in predictable ways. Describing why you exist as an organization.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Yet they don't work, and their repeated application makes many managers incredibly gender fatigued and frustrated. There are only two genders, so you can't have a diversity of them; your organization is either balanced or imbalanced. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted. Problem 1: Calling it Diversity.

Diversity 8

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee 8

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 27, 2015

The call center had ventured into this unknown territory organically. Their leadership knew their processes needed rigor, so they called me in to take a look and help them create a scalable model. This guy’s going to be our project manager for the next year. In fact, let me just circle that in for you.

Balanced Scorecard 180

Balanced Scorecard Call Center Guidelines Survey 180

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But if you were the organization that broke a story, or researched and originated it through a long investigation , Google News wouldnt give you a break. But if you were the organization that broke a story, or researched and originated it through a long investigation , Google News wouldnt give you a break.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15