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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. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Align Systems ). Discipline IV.

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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. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Align Systems ). Discipline IV.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Cost structure metrics measure a company’s ability to manage its costs relative to competitors over three to five years.

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The Transformed Map of a Recovering Management Accountant

Deming Institute

Kaplan, and Relevance Regained , focused on improving the information available to management accountants. Manage a Living System, Not a Ledger” ), Johnson explains that better cost information, such as activity-based costing (ABC) , will not provide a long-term method of reducing manufacturing costs.

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How to Give a Briefing that Impresses the Boss

Strategy Driven

They’ll probably center on cost and anticipated outcomes for the project. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., The evidence can include facts and figures, data on the results similar projects produced, or an evaluation made by someone the boss respects. Step 5: Be ready to answer questions.

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business Review

Costs reduced? Even when the overall aim is stability, often there are still change goals: to reduce variability, cut costs, reduce the time required, or reduce turnover, for example. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. Productivity improved? New products developed? Change management.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E.