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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

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.

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Gary Harpst is the direct opposite.”

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Numerous organizations have subsequently advocated and implemented the balanced scorecard idea. Tim Koller leads the firm’s research activities in valuation and capital market issues.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

But in truth businesses rarely focus on only profitability; most strive to satisfy various stakeholders and meet the goals of balanced scorecards. Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies.

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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies

Harvard Business Review

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. The strategy consultants come in, do their work, and document the new strategy in a PowerPoint presentation and a weighty report.