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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Discipline III. Align Systems ).

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and Dr. David P. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Discipline III. Align Systems ).

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

They documented huge differences in comparing 600 companies. Those accelerated companies were much less effective, and people much more stressed than the more strategic companies. Develop e-mail ground rules within your organization to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of e-mail communication.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. And besides, they say, there are too many operational challenges requiring attention so they don’t have the “luxury” to think long-term.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. We all know the companies and brands that failed to find this delicate balance: Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders, and the list could go on and on. And besides, they say, there are too many operational challenges requiring attention so they don’t have the “luxury” to think long-term.

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Zen And The Art Of Small Town Revitalization

The Horizons Tracker

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. An entrepreneurial beacon. Rural innovation.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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