Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When a client or manager or CEO asks, What are we doing here folks? One of the most well recognized books on strategy is from the British military historian B.H. Strategy is about the “how.” A policy may have an implementation strategy behind it. It is the art of creating power (emphasis added).”.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Our report offers CEOs a new roadmap to help make strategic investments that narrow this innovation achievement gap and fuel higher growth.”. Strategy : Actively aligning business strategy and IT strategy and weaving technology investments together to better seize opportunities.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Any CEO or business leader faces that same situation. Since most employees don’t automatically trust their boss or CEO, they need to hear what he has to say in order to make a decision about whether he is trustworthy. Leaders need their employees to stay on board during the changes and continue to contribute to its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars. Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports. ” Walmart can’t compete with this value proposition, at least not yet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

When Target hired Brian Cornell as CEO in 2014, expectations were high that he would inject fresh energy into one of the largest U.S. When that same year Microsoft replaced CEO Steve Ballmer with Satya Nadella, the move signaled the possibility for major change. The 21st-Century CEO. retail chains. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Tim Cook, Apple CEO has been showing-off lately the initiatives of the company in the health sector, he described it as a formidable tool to its future growth. "I When Apple shifted its strategy in 2016, it also laid off workers from this same group. However, the remaining employees have been deployed to other divisions in Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

The best CEOs, like Steve Jobs and A.G. Consider the case of Blockbuster , whose CEO John Antioco had proven himself as both a manager and a leader. In the Blockbuster case, a successful CEO was faced with a disruptive threat and came up with a successful market strategy. Every organization needs both.

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Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. The site should provide the following: A video message from the CEO. Track progress and provide feedback. Align the Leadership Team. Author Bios. Dr. George H.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

Those users architected, for all intents and purposes, a coup de 'tat that resulted in Interim CEO Ellen Pao's departure. While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Reddit is now in the hands of CEO and returning co-founder Steve Huffman.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're among the many multinational CEOs planning to appoint a local executive as your next country head in an emerging market such as Brazil, China, or India, you may want to think again. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization. This is a transparent way to reiterate the organization’s purpose, its strategy, and culture. That’s why Culture is the strategy for so many success stories such as Google and Amazon.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy. I have sat through many strategy meetings listening to bright leaders dream up bold plans without vetting their financial feasibility. Finally, companies treat strategy too lackadaisically.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

So many companies fall short in their goals because they overemphasize strategy with little/no attention to the cultural aspects that drive it. The most ingenious strategy in the world will never come to fruition without creating the right culture to drive it. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Since 2009, Adam Bryant has interviewed hundreds of CEOs for the “Corner Office” feature in The New York Times. This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” As one CEO put it to me, “Silos are what topple great companies.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In decades of teaching executives at Harvard Business School and interviewing CEOs for my research, I’ve observed that savvy leaders whose strategies succeed tend to focus on four implementation imperatives: Question everything. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Big strategies need local options.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

So why do we assume that our CEOs will? Like Federer, some CEOs consistently win in one context but lose in another. If you’re involved in CEO selection, this requires that you both hire the right CEO and understand when the company’s strategic situation suggests that a different CEO is more likely to win.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. Consider how Home Depot, born of two founders , stumbled when its board hired Bob Nardelli from General Electric to be CEO and instill big-company discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO. The Volkswagen debacle, just like other big crises, reminds us how expensive weak governance can be.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Not long ago I facilitated a day long strategy session with the senior team of a very successful $10 billion company with an outstanding CEO. By the end of the day (in part thanks to a goodly amount of pre-work by the head of strategy), we got to a nice set of integrated choices. And that day strategy prevailed over planning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Unilever CEO Paul Polman, for example, was rising above a trade-off mindset when he told us: “We see that sustainability drives growth, cuts costs, reduces risk, and helps us serve a multitude of stakeholders.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Let’s start with strategy. As I understand the term, strategy consists of two categories: corporate strategy and business unit strategy. Corporate strategy consists of CEOs and top executives making just three basic choices: What should be the capabilities that distinguish the company?

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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. Principles informed by a fact-based strategy encourage impartiality, highlighting gaps, and forcing difficult choices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. And now Immelt is now the ex-CEO, and Trian Partners just got a seat on the GE board. If their campaign is successful, like Trian’s was at GE, they’ll have a seat on the board and a new CEO and management. So What Is a CEO to Do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1. With 5% to 10% of the overall budget, this CEO persona must bring together a hodge-podge of business processes, data, systems, and connection points with legacy systems and newer cloud-based approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business. Only 46 percent of CEOs think their CIOs understand the business. Define Your Strategy. Find Your Voice in the C-Suite. Or maybe it doesn''t really need to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Skouras, the company’s CEO, thought that sounded like a swell idea. That’s why the San Francisco-based company tinkered with its strategy the right way, off to the side, in a manner that would minimize damage if the experiment went wrong. This is a hard lesson, running counter to the improvisatory instincts of many CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Under the leadership of Anthony Tersigni, Ascension’s president and CEO, the organization has sought to become much more efficient at delivering health care. Ascension has another solid reason for pursuing its strategy. Ascension’s strategy has no downside, only upside.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

When the CEO of GE announces that it will become a digital industrial enterprise and the CEO of Citigroup says it will become the world’s leading digital bank , you know that a new strategic priority is sweeping the corporate world. It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

They may have done a swell $2 million strategy study for a client, but then have to watch from the sidelines as a more broadly based firm swoops in to do the $15 million project — a total systems redesign, say, or a corporate reorganization — entailed in implementing the strategy. Monitor & Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Strategy and goal setting. Employees do not have to be concerned about being friends with the CEO, competing with each other, and other political challenges when these processes are viewed as transparent and fair. What technical and leadership skills are needed?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Target CEO Brian Cornell decided to close the stores after determining that they would not become profitable until at least 2021. In Target’s annual 2012 report , then-CEO Gregg Steinhafel mentioned Target’s “two years of exceptional dedicated and hard work” to prepare for the international expansion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. In contrast, IBM kept laser-like focus on building the global organization to execute its strategy, and financial results followed. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! It is not about you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

Management proudly announced the deal as part of its strategy of foreign expansion. They noticed one other curious detail: the formal announcement of the take-over included a photograph of Pharmateam''s managing director shaking hands with Alphahealth''s CEO. But Alphahealth''s CEO was not wearing a tie.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As the system ended, the most urgent imperative for CEO Anand Mahindra was to shake the entire company out of its complacency. As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Imagine you are the CEO of one of Britain’s oldest and possibly least innovative insurance companies, The Prudential. The CEO should, therefore, have been wary about this opportunity. One of your better managers comes to you with the idea of setting up an internet bank.

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