Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning. The empowered team is trusted to seek quality on their own. Faster innovation. Involvement teams. Higher sales.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Lead from Within

AUGUST 25, 2015

What are the functional roles within your team? Make sure you understand the value proposition of your team, your company and those who you work with you. Prepare yourself with a summary of the mission, purpose and values of the company, along with the trends and innovations within your industry. Speak To Your Team.

Power 60

Power Succession Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. And yet, despite its importance, innovation is a difficult quality to cultivate both in leaders and in organizations.

Innovation 8

Innovation Skills CEO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind. So it’s wise to start the exercise by asking all team members to write down their views of your firm’s revenue target.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

The projects were all being planned as if they were incremental innovations in a predictable setting: The assumption was that the organizations launching them had a rich platform of experience and knowledge upon which to draw. We’d ask our venture teams to re-evaluate their assumptions at these checkpoints, ahead of major investments.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Advantage Strategic Planning Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate? ” Step 2: Do benchmarking.

Planning 8

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment.

Mentor 56

Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. In addition to financial, cover-up costs can include the effects upon morale, activity levels, productivity, decision making, creativity, adaptation and innovation.

Planning 50

Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Strategic planning fails when: It has fuzzy objectives Why is the company writing a strategic plan? That is a big problem.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14