Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Innovate Purposefully ).

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Innovate Purposefully ).

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator.

Books 290

Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 290

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. People are changing faster than companies and governmental agencies. "I And pragmatically, social power can help keep your company and community vital. . This is Canada's No.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 23, 2011

Geller’s interview of Adam Segal for the “True Tales of Fortune” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. Here is an excerot from Laura W.

Innovation 75

Innovation Magazine Strategy Resources 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

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.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

What’s really significant, though, is that by buying WhatsApp, Facebook has signaled its intention of taking on Tencent, China’s biggest Internet company, which is trying to become the global leader in the instant messaging market. Founded in 1998, Tencent is a profitable company that has created a rich ecosystem of services.

Norton 8

Norton Globalization Price Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. Both companies embrace a digital future still being invented. companies, with perhaps half of employees disengaged and disaffected.

Motivation 10

Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Michael Norton , an associate professor at Harvard Business School and the co-author of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending , studies the relationship between business, charity, and a person’s motivation to give. How are companies are thinking about making donations this time of year?

Norton 9

Norton Retail Innovation Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. If you made a mistake in your spreadsheet you could roll it back, a must-have feature for companies wanting to use PC spreadsheets (which still had "toy" reputations) for real business. The feature? And now, undo is new yet again.

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Better insight from customers can drive serious growth in your company, at least according to a recent study by IBM of over 1700 CEOs. But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Company Fit. Not necessarily.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8