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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard in 1992. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets.

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The Strategy-Focused Organization: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Harvard Business Press (2000) The Perilous “Journey&# to Breakthrough Performance Note: This is another “business classic” I read when it was first published and then recently re-read it.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

If BDAI had been in place at Olympus Camera on the day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, would the company’s management information system have warned leadership that the pocket camera industry, at that moment, was entering an irreversible swoon? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

Monthly staff meetings are usually reserved for reviewing financial performance, balance scorecard objectives, and major actions that have been forecasted in the annual strategic planning meetings. Weekly Operational Meetings. Weekly operational meetings should be kept under 90 minutes. Monthly Staff Meetings.

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Study: Female Executives Make Progress, But Mostly in Support Functions

Harvard Business Review

My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia. As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees.