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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels. But in the realm of strategy just the opposite is true.

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How to Lead with Speed

Skip Prichard

It’s a critical success factor in a competitive world. One of the very best books I have read on speed is Lead with Speed: Fire up your team, power your engines of development, and make your organization soar. Alan is an author, speaker, consultant and expert at helping organizations improve results. Alan Willett.

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Organizational Transformation Requires Leadership at all Levels

Great Leadership By Dan

These high-performing organizations have integrated and aligned the six dimensions of strategy, people, process, technology, structure, and measurement to realize the transformation success and reap the planned business value. These organizations have developed strong transformation capability.

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

Develop a tool to assess current alignment. Develops personal 3, 30 and 60 day commitments to action. The company should develop or purchase an online questionnaire-based tool for measuring critical success factors and the current state of alignment at every level and for every unit.

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What Box? How to Turn Problems into Opportunities

Strategy Driven

Consult with experts, directly and indirectly. Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Timing will be one of your critical success factors. In 1988 he left corporate management to start his consulting company.

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Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Start Now.

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Stop Bashing HR

Harvard Business Review

Especially today , recruitment, retention, and development of human capital is a critical success factor for almost any organization. One possibility is that the criticisms could be true. But in my experience, and that of consultants working with dozens of firms, this level of HR incompetence is rare.