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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Recently my company published our latest research on how companies execute that revealed 67% fail. Kaplan and David P.

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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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How Can You Shield Your Small Business From Disaster?

Strategy Driven

We live in a data-driven society now, and unfortunately the illegal exchange of some of those details is big business on the black market. Start by making sure that you have the latest anti-virus and malware software installed with regular security patches – Norton even make this type of software specifically for small businesses.

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After Mobility Comes Digital Context

Strategy Driven

Tomorrow everything from the water filter you use to the parking space your company assigns you to park in will be connected via sensors to a vast ecosphere of data. David Norton, PhD is author of Digital Context 2.0: Think on that for a moment. Today there are already more connected devices than there are people. About the Author.

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

Six Disciplines

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). Therefore, there is also a Six Disciplines company that was established to help companies long-term get established and maintain using this methodology.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “But the book doesn't stop there! ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO).

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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

He claimed that based on this insight he could anticipate their market moves one or even two steps in advance. At the same time, we continued to invest in long-term product development and overseas markets, knowing it was unlikely he could follow us in the short term.”. expansion, out-maneuvering Adelson in the domestic market. “We

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How We’ll Really Feel if Robots Take Our Jobs

Harvard Business Review

This is evidenced, and perhaps brought on by, the number of news reports about hot new bots, a depressed job market still inching out of a global recession, and a much-discussed “skills gap” when it comes to STEM fields. “We were surprised by how consistent our results were,” reports Norton.

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