In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Proactivity is the secret to long-term success. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on. Those who get to the future first, are the ones who win. Apple has been adept at the vision game for a quarter of a century.

CEO 242

CEO Chief Executive Officer Critical Success Factor Discount 242

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The shift required for success is to have leaders at every level and unit take ownership in the development and execution of strategy. Alignment: When it comes to strategy, alignment is a critical success factor. These 10 shifts can help any organization at any level get better results.

Strategic Planning 150

Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

I’m a big fan of scaling up innovative ideas and making sure they have as much impact as possible. A shockingly large percentage of startups fail because they fall in love with their technology or innovation and miss the fact that it doesn’t solve a problem for the customers described in Question 2.

Venture Capitalist 50

Venture Capitalist Critical Success Factor Entrepreneur COO 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Timing will be one of your critical success factors. Every successful entrepreneur and change agent knows that resistance is part of the transformation equation. Tip #6: Ask “When?”

Critical Success Factor 50

Critical Success Factor Six Sigma How To Resistance 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

When we ask executives, What is the number one innovation killer at your company? , But it's bad when you're trying to innovate across departments and divisions. Innovation is the Trojan Horse that can be sent in to break down silos. Let's start with creating the compelling case for innovation. It gets things moving.

Organization 14

Organization Critical Success Factor Innovation Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure. Charismatic presenters are nice and crisply articulated messages are wonderful, but one critical success factor stands out above all others: The best customer events put the best customers on stage.

Software 14

Software Critical Success Factor Early Adopters B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. By far the best synthesis and summary of the digital keys to the campaign's success is Engage DC's Inside the Cave. They're right. But, actually, they're thinking too small.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

And yet organizational culture is a critical success factor to nearly everything. His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. Jay Jamrog.

Open-book 101

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Definition Company 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Most successful technical leaders I know avoid getting in the way of their best people's productivity. The (far) more interesting counterfactual would have been a leaked memo declaring that telecommuters and virtual teams were — by far — the most agile, innovative and productive performers at Yahoo. It's possible.

Critical Success Factor 8

Critical Success Factor CEO Agility Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Instead, they should use a portfolio tool that classifies all existing, planned, and potential digital investments into four categories based on an assessment of their current and future contribution to business success. Strategic investments are critical to future business success. Implementation criteria.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. How can we go even faster?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Their future success is contingent upon becoming disproportionately more valuable as more people use them. Is big data there to provide a more innovative signal or a comfortable redundancy? A commitment to a desired business outcome is the critical success factor. All of the above" is exactly the wrong answer.

Execution 15

Execution Critical Success Factor Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every organization that aspires to greatness has something to learn from relevant success stories of the past. Reverse-engineer the reasons for their success, looking for features that they share in common. Reverse-engineer the reasons for their success, looking for features that they share in common. But it simply doesn’t work.

Engineering 9

Engineering Succession Mauborgne Critical Success Factor 9

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. In the new economy, culture is the poster child of corporate success. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100