Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Translate the Strategy: define strategic objectives and themes; select measures and targets; select strategic initiatives. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. Do Less Better practitioners are fanatical about focus and de-complexity; herein lies the secret of their success. Specialists beat generalists, but generalists who embrace and practice focus can be wildly successful. Case in point – Nike.

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Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Long-term 177

Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Succession Travel Learning-by-Doing PR 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. ” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work.

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IT Strategy Strategy Diversity Bond 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

While these managers certainly care about strategy, their primary focus is this year. So, when it comes time to roll-out your next key strategy, where do you begin? As mentioned, they’re the ones that must interpret the strategies and translate them into something that is actionable by the rank and file.

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Tips Middle Management Strategic Planning Objective 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2016

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. Cost management strategies are equally important, as the management of all firms is pressured to see how they can manage the cost to help improve the bottom line.

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Incentives Bottom-up Performance Review CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Does your strategy capitalize on that?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Accenture identified five factors that they believe are key to digital success, and which distinguish those at the head of the pack from the laggards behind: Progress : The extent to which companies apply new technology to evolve business processes across the enterprise.

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How To Technology Maturity Agility 85

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid). Many companies have derived BoP strategies from C.K. There are some excellent business & corporate strategy examples of companies implementing the BoP model. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru.

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

Making a difference to society through every transaction it makes, the climate emergency is prioritised at the centre of its strategy. With under 100 employees, it is trying to change the financial system to focus on a more sustainable future. Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Your IT strategy won’t always be the same, and so having the right individual there to help will be the best option for your business to be a success. You can invest in Cloud IT services, too, and that will go a long way toward better workplace safety and security.

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Outsourcing Finance Software Project 71

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. As a result, it becomes an increasing drag on the success of the company until corrected. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies.

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Constraint Objective Resources Goal 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy. Many companies feel a pull to imitate the practices of successful rivals. For one thing, by offering the new shipping service, Walmart is really only playing catch-up. But this rarely ends well.

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IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

” The key to McChrystal’s eventual success lay in a series of studies done by Solomon Asch in the 1950’s. ” McChrystal understood that no amount of planning or strategy could achieve that; it had to come through personal contact. In effect the structure, rather than the plan, was the strategy.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. As a result, it becomes an increasing drag on the success of the company until corrected. This type of misalignment surfaces suddenly as a barrier to implementing new strategies.

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Constraint Objective Video Resources 101

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Travel PR Learning-by-Doing Open-book 69

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing PR Open-book 74

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

Below are 7 blind spots and clues that your organization’s culture – no matter how successful in the past – is possibly headed in the wrong direction. Blindspot 4: Your strategy and culture are working at cross purposes with each other. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors. Why such an indepth assessment?

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Company Organization Cost Self-aware 135

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, co-authors of Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. This is a guest post by Dr. George H. Author Bios.

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System Critical Success Factor Metrics Consultative 115

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is striking how much confusion there is between strategy, implementation, and execution. Is “strategy” a matter of making choices about where we want to go, where we play and how we win, of setting goals and actions, about how we create and capture economic value over time? Let’s start with strategy.

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Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

. “We found the perfect strategy” ranks with “And they lived happily ever after” as a perpetual myth. A strategy is never excellent in and of itself; it is shaped, enhanced, or limited by implementation. When a strategy looks brilliant, it’s because of the quality of execution. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I must have heard the words "we need to create a strategic plan" at least an order of magnitude more times than I have heard "we need to create a strategy." This is because most people see strategy as an exercise in producing a planning document. Obviously you can't execute a strategy without initiatives, investments, and budgeting.

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Planning Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. But by building your search parameters around the guidelines outlined in this paper, you can greatly increase your chances for hiring success. High-quality candidates are getting harder and harder to find.

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Resources Talent Management Guidelines Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. As he writes in “ The Big Lie of Strategic Planning ”, the first rule is “keep the strategy statement simple.” The result: one planning document, many different strategies. Strategy' I couldn’t agree more.

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Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success. But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. But by building your search parameters around the guidelines outlined in this paper, you can greatly increase your chances for hiring success. High-quality candidates are getting harder and harder to find.

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Resources Guidelines Quality Long-term 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

You sometimes hear managers complain that their organization has no strategy. Every organization has a strategy: its strategy is what it does. But unless it is reflected in the actions of an organization, it is not the organization’s strategy. This isn’t true. Think about it. And your bosses’ job?

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Strategy Bottom-up Organization Report 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. But by building your search parameters around the guidelines outlined in this paper, you can greatly increase your chances for hiring success. High-quality candidates are getting harder and harder to find.

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Resources Guidelines Quality Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. They forget that the strategy which took them from small to midsize has already proven itself a winner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. As Kawashima recalled, "We had no strategy other than the idea of seeing if we could sell something in the United States." Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. But the companies we studied believe otherwise.

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Execution Strategy Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. But a market never buys anything. Only customers buy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Five Problem-Solving Success Tips. Confusion reigned. There appeared to be a thrash-about in several simultaneous directions. If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

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How To Leadership Competitive Advantage Consensus 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The result was slow progress against the company strategy and an inability to profitably deliver on the value proposition. She had attempted to motivate employees and be clear about the strategy, but she was falling short and was looking for answers on what to do next. Keep the message simple, but deep in meaning.

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Strategy Education Content Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. Organizations can realize untapped value, and reduce risk, when HR and Procurement share knowledge and work together to create an integrated talent strategy.

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