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The Year Is Half Over…Do You Know Where Your Strategic Plan Is?

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According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study.

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The Year Is Half Over…Do You Know Where Your Strategic Plan Is?

CO2

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. Unclear Objectives.

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How to Create a Culture of Innovation

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The 300 HR managers in the audience raised their hands in agreement when they were asked if “the soft stuff” was their company’s biggest barrier to innovation. Measure what’s meaningful – Because “you get what you measure,” select metrics that reinforce your innovation goals. They’re stuck.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, while the creation of common standards and metrics for governance are wholly sensible, the notion that companies must be legally bound to have a societal purpose seems excessively heavy handed and liable to receive considerable backlash from the corporate world. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

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This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. They were appropriate to the artist's goal of creating "a contemplative space that encourages participants to linger and experience an all-encompassing art environment.".