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What Really Drives Your Strategy?

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Since up to 90% of effectively formulated strategies fail due to execution, it''s critcal to understand that it''s after the goals are set that companies run into one of their greatest challenges - their own internal systems - processes, policies, technologies, measures and people.

Strategy 106
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Knowledge Transfer Is Key To Sustaining Business Excellence

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BOTTOMLINE: For small and midsized businesses to remain competitive, a formalized process of knowledge transfer (of trends, policies, procedures, information gathering, competitive intelligence, and so on.) must be deployed. to share, capture, retain, and disseminate the knowledge.

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The Two Key Components of Strategic Alignment

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For many businesses, the systems that make up the business—its policies, processes,technologies, measures, and people—are often at cross-purposes with the priorities of the company. SUGGESTION: One of the greatest barriers that any organization faces in pursuing its goals is itself. Why is this so?

System 101
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Barriers To Enduring Business Excellence

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Thinking holistically about your business - how to make all of the components, people, processes, policies, key measures, assets and strategies work together to meet the promises made to your customers and other stakeholders -- in a repeatable and predicatable fashion -- is key to achieving lasting excellence. Lack of a Systematic Approach.

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The Importance of A Repeatable Methodology for Strategy Execution

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Achieving this goal requires thinking holistically about the business – how to make all the components, people, processes, policies, key measures, assets and strategies work together to meet the promises made to customers and other stakeholders and to repeat these in a predictable fashion.

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Majority Of Companies Still Not Communicating Strategy Internally

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Two-thirds of organizations have a pay-for-performance policy, but of those, only one in five always ensures that rewards are accurately aligned to contribution. Only 17 percent of organizations know all of its top performing employees and are looking to develop them for future roles.

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The Importance of A Repeatable Methodology for Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

Achieving this goal requires thinking holistically about the business – how to make all the components, people, processes, policies, key measures, assets and strategies work together to meet the promises made to customers and other stakeholders and to repeat these in a predictable fashion.