Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Six Disciplines differs in that respect – it’s all about teaching a system of getting done the things that we all know need to be done.” ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy.

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior, balanced scorecards are reformulated, and budgets are set aside to support initiatives that fit the new strategy. Strategy implementation requires top managers to design the company’s internal system that does the selection for them.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.

Creative Accounting 14

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.". Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13