The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

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Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 89

Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

Effective execution of strategy seems to be an elusive goal. After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. Kaplan and D. Kaplan and D. As Fortune Magazine noted in 1982, "Less than 10% of strategies effectively formulated are effectively executed.".

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Norton Kaplan Execution Strategy 101

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Strategy : Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite by Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen (The MIT Press 2021) Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 453

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. It's interesting to note that Kaplan and Norton's description of such a "closed-loop management system" very closely parallels that of the Six Disciplines complete strategy execution program. Set Goals That Lead ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline II. Discipline III. Align Systems ).

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kaplan and Dr. David P. It's interesting to note that Kaplan and Norton's description of such a "closed-loop management system" very closely parallels that of the Six Disciplines complete strategy execution program. Set Goals That Lead ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline II. Discipline III. Align Systems ).

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

LDRLB

JANUARY 14, 2013

2013 represents a great opportunity to leapfrog our mental models and innovate our way to breakthroughs for ourselves, our teams, our organizations and, of course, our customers. Breakthrough innovation isn’t much different; there are no maps for uncharted territory. Comprehensive data rarely exist.

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Strategy Leadership Innovation Uncertainty 160

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Even when the overall aim is stability, often there are still change goals: to reduce variability, cut costs, reduce the time required, or reduce turnover, for example. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. Instead, focus on some important goals that are not being accomplished.

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At his invitation, I went this week to the state's two largest cities, Lexington and Louisville, to talk with local entrepreneurs and community leaders about what it takes to spur more innovation and entrepreneurship in a region. Think about the forms an "Innovation Story Studio" for the community could take. You have to lead.

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Innovation Entrepreneur Kaplan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Learn how to master the art of the performance review: define job responsibilities, set goals, assess performance, provide recognition, and create development plans. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. By Robert Kaplan. By Dick Grote. and Are Ready to Do It Again.

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Kaplan Christensen Books Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

McGonigal suggests that the four defining traits of any game — a goal, clear rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation — can be applied to any challenge. Organizations have a lot of experience with goal setting, rules, and incentives. She even says game-playing makes us better people.

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Kaplan Health Care Incentives Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

At the Business Innovation Factory , our team has been working with the College Board to explore the experience of young men of color in the U.S. BIF and the College Board are bringing the voice and experience of young men of color to the center of an innovation conversation on how to turn these disturbing trends around.

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Education Kaplan Trends Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

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Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

LDRLB

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Setting Effective Organizational Goals – Sean Conrad on why most organizations fail at goal-setting and how to avoid their fate. Ten Questions to Inspire Innovation – Soren Kaplan with ten questions that can be used to evoke more creative thinking. The following ten posts were our top read pieces written in 2012.

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Strategy Kaplan Innovation Wilde 158

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Sam Gilman and Andrew Kaplan , college juniors started Common Sense Action in 2012 with one chapter. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for his work on Common Sense Action. Starr Social Innovation Fellow for Common Sense Action. What if our youth started to take government back? Well, it''s happening. The setting? He is a C.V.

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Kaplan Policies Politics Chief Executive Officer 194