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Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. MORE
The title of the discussion was "Nice-to-have or Core Strategy? It was quite a group and there was a variety of perspective around the table about just how important--or not--design is to the way businesses make their money. or was it something else. MORE
It is used to respond to changes in the marketplace and react to customer demands. It tends to be summary information composed from individual business transactions performed throughout the business. While this approach is commonly used, it is not recommended. MORE
It’s tough to build an IT strategy when you want to spend all of your money to support your mission, so many non-profits lack both the resources and the understanding of how to leverage IT within their organizations. Survive Your Promotion! MORE
A thought came to mind: Once France had invested its time and treasure so heavily in the Maginot Line, what were the odds that it was going to back away from that strategy? Would it have been easy to persuade the French government and military to shift its strategy? I had breakfast with a city official this morning. Since both of us are history buffs, before getting down to business we discussed the history books we''ve been reading. MORE
The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. As a result, it becomes an increasing drag on the success of the company until corrected. Strategic misalignment occurs suddenly, when the leadership sets a strategic VFO (vital few objective) -- but the systems and resources of the organization are not deployed to support it. MORE
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. 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. Monitor and Learn: hold strategy reviews; hold operational reviews. MORE
Is over-emphasizing positive thinking in your company’s culture, actually creating negativity without you even knowing it? Is having 0% employee turnover actually a good thing to sing high praises about, or is it overshadowing another truth ? Rather to learn from it. MORE
Apple has dismissed not less than 200 of its employees working on the Titan Project. People familiar with the matter told CNBC that the company this week laid-off workers from its stealthy autonomous vehicle group. Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. It is meanwhile believed internally that the dismissals from the group this week is a restructuring anticipated under every new leadership. MORE
It tells you what is capturing their hope and anticipation, and what gives them the energy to move forward. This is good feedback because it tells you what part of the change they’re connecting with (sometimes it’s not what you thought it would be). MORE
Your business thrives on how effective its marketing strategy is. Marketing is a concept that can almost consume a business that hasn’t got its strategy in order. Most businesses place a vast proportion of their budget towards marketing and its various sub-categories. MORE
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true. MORE
Football By Football started at the beginning of the 2014 National Football League season, and it lays out its strategy on the home page: FootballByFootball.com is a football analysis website providing unique player-writer generated content; owned & operated by experienced football players. You could see someone who barely made it through a meeting with back pain lined up for conditioning. MORE
Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Does your strategy capitalize on that? MORE
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I just finished reading an article where the author (a self professed innovation guru) recommended strategy be aligned with capability, and that to allow ambition to exceed capability is a nothing short of a recipe for disaster. MORE
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. 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. Monitor and Learn: hold strategy reviews; hold operational reviews. MORE
As a CIO, you have either made – or heard – recommendations to create an IT project management office. IT delivers its projects on time, on budget, and to spec. You and your IT PMO have put the foundation of consistent innovation in place. Nevertheless, it is no more than a foundation. Agile Innovation IT Strategy PMO Portfolio Management Project Management agile IT project management and portfolio management MORE
Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. MORE
Walmart’s recent change to free two-day shipping for online orders, no membership required, is the latest in a series of moves the company has made to fight Amazon and grow its e-commerce business. Last year, it purchased Jet.com and installed Jet’s founder, Marc Lore, as head of its e-commerce division. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy. MORE
The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. It's what we describe in detail in Discipline III. As a result, it becomes an increasing drag on the success of the company until corrected. Strategic misalignment occurs suddenly, when the leadership sets a strategic VFO (vital few objective) -- but the systems and resources of the organization are not deployed to support it. MORE
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true. MORE
It’s a generic way to think about an enterprise and how most are organizationally design. These are the people responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding the enterprise towards its future. So, when it comes time to roll-out your next key strategy, where do you begin? MORE
This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” MORE
Once again, he had turned around a struggling company, transformed its business model and made its operations hum. When Netflix emerged as a disruptive threat, Antioco met it head on. As the General himself put it, “It takes a network to defeat a network.” MORE
I learned quickly that if I was going to do my job effectively, I would have to earn their respect, not think it would be granted automatically because I was in the front of the classroom. We live in a skeptical world. MORE
Then, it executed several strategic moves with seemingly little communication and proceeded to churn its executive ranks through a revolving door. In the process, Reddit upset nearly everyone; investors, employees and its fanatical community of users alike. You can't do it alone. MORE
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Different experts may use alternate terms for these concepts, but rather than fixating on terminology for now, it’s better to focus on understanding the underlying principles. MORE
Football By Football started at the beginning of the 2014 National Football League season, and it lays out its strategy on the home page: FootballByFootball.com is a football analysis website providing unique player-writer generated content; owned & operated by experienced football players. You could see someone who barely made it through a meeting with back pain lined up for conditioning. MORE
Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty. MORE
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Different experts may use alternate terms for these concepts, but rather than fixating on terminology for now, it’s better to focus on understanding the underlying principles. MORE
When most companies think about footing the bill for educating their employees, the ever-present caveat is that it must be related to you role. Good logic, but is it too narrow? It allows you to see if they can be broadened and how essential they are/aren’t to your performance. MORE
While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way. MORE
In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. He is accountable for returning value to customers by driving the strategy to ensure returns for the next five years. It is a good practice. MORE
Think about it for a minute. Sure, you'll come up with a long laundry list of challenges: competitive pressures, growth and expansion, talent shortages, price sensitivity, margins, R&D, industry consolidation.and the list goes on - AND - it changes every day.forever. Once a challenge has been addressed or solved, it's replaced by another challenge (and if you're good at solving problems, the challenges get even greater, not easier!). Is this the way it HAS to be? MORE
Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Filed under: Innovation Tagged: | Akio Morita , interdependence , PM Quote of the Day « Manager-Leader Gap in IT Strategy Deming and Project Management » Like Be the first to like this post. Home About Experience Trap/Complexity Set KM Set Metrics Set Crossderry Blog Entries RSS | Comments RSS Where’s Crossderry read? MORE
I wonder…how can a single-archetype CIO be successful when his/her IT portfolio must contain very disparate types of projects and programs (e.g., “stay in the game&# vs. “win the game&# vs. “change the game&# initiatives)? Paul Ritchie’s musings on Manager-Leader Gap in IT strategy. In it Paul references Long [.] MORE
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Think about it for a minute. Sure, you'll come up with a long laundry list of challenges: competitive pressures, growth and expansion, talent shortages, price sensitivity, margins, R&D, industry consolidation.and the list goes on - AND - it changes every day.forever. Once a challenge has been addressed or solved, it's replaced by another challenge (and if you're good at solving problems, the challenges get even greater, not easier!). Is this the way it HAS to be? MORE
The critical question for every business leader is, “ How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?”. The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Strategy Execution Coaching to nurture and nudge to stay the course. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. Technology (i.e., performance mangement software) alone is not enough. MORE
If done the wrong way, such promotions smack of the old IT “if we explain it to you lunkheads one more time it will sink in” mentality. I started as a BYOD advocate and I’m OK with it for myself, at least for certain devices (e.g.,work However, if we in IT want to control devices, we should expect that some won’t want to hand over their personal property. Also, I’m just not sure that BYOD is a great lever for preventing shadow IT. MORE
In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. Executives know that culture is important and that a negative culture can hurt company performance, but they often don’t know what to do about it. ” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work. It was always: ‘Would you do me a favor?’ MORE
Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. It is an expectation placed upon us at a very young age. MORE
Every company needs to determine if its strategy requires an [.]. biz leaders: It's time to rethink everything BlackBerry DuPont Facebook Fortune Magazine Fortune on PBS Geoff Colvin Google Harold Longman Award Hewlett-Packard Home Depot Instagram Intuit Kodak Listen up Microsoft Motorola Nokia Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else the Great Depression Wall Street Week We're not living in ordinary economic times What is our core? MORE
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true. MORE
IT Strategy Related Topics Crossderry Blog
MAY 4, 2009
I wonder…how can a single-archetype CIO be successful when his/her IT portfolio must contain very disparate types of projects and programs (e.g., “stay in the game&# vs. “win the game&# vs. “change the game&# initiatives)? Paul Ritchie’s musings on Manager-Leader Gap in IT strategy. In it Paul references Long [.]
Crossderry Blog
MARCH 11, 2015
As a CIO, you have either made – or heard – recommendations to create an IT project management office. IT delivers its projects on time, on budget, and to spec. You and your IT PMO have put the foundation of consistent innovation in place. Nevertheless, it is no more than a foundation. Agile Innovation IT Strategy PMO Portfolio Management Project Management agile IT project management and portfolio management
Crossderry Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
If done the wrong way, such promotions smack of the old IT “if we explain it to you lunkheads one more time it will sink in” mentality. I started as a BYOD advocate and I’m OK with it for myself, at least for certain devices (e.g.,work However, if we in IT want to control devices, we should expect that some won’t want to hand over their personal property. Also, I’m just not sure that BYOD is a great lever for preventing shadow IT.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. Executives know that culture is important and that a negative culture can hurt company performance, but they often don’t know what to do about it. ” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work. It was always: ‘Would you do me a favor?’
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2015
Once again, he had turned around a struggling company, transformed its business model and made its operations hum. When Netflix emerged as a disruptive threat, Antioco met it head on. As the General himself put it, “It takes a network to defeat a network.”
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Does your strategy capitalize on that?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2017
Walmart’s recent change to free two-day shipping for online orders, no membership required, is the latest in a series of moves the company has made to fight Amazon and grow its e-commerce business. Last year, it purchased Jet.com and installed Jet’s founder, Marc Lore, as head of its e-commerce division. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 31, 2017
It is used to respond to changes in the marketplace and react to customer demands. It tends to be summary information composed from individual business transactions performed throughout the business. While this approach is commonly used, it is not recommended.
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 17, 2014
The critical question for every business leader is, “ How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?”. The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Strategy Execution Coaching to nurture and nudge to stay the course. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. Technology (i.e., performance mangement software) alone is not enough.
Six Disciplines
MAY 10, 2011
While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way.
Execupundit
JULY 24, 2014
A thought came to mind: Once France had invested its time and treasure so heavily in the Maginot Line, what were the odds that it was going to back away from that strategy? Would it have been easy to persuade the French government and military to shift its strategy? I had breakfast with a city official this morning. Since both of us are history buffs, before getting down to business we discussed the history books we''ve been reading.
HR Digest
JANUARY 27, 2019
Apple has dismissed not less than 200 of its employees working on the Titan Project. People familiar with the matter told CNBC that the company this week laid-off workers from its stealthy autonomous vehicle group. Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. It is meanwhile believed internally that the dismissals from the group this week is a restructuring anticipated under every new leadership.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2016
It’s a generic way to think about an enterprise and how most are organizationally design. These are the people responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding the enterprise towards its future. So, when it comes time to roll-out your next key strategy, where do you begin?
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
Do Less Better is also a culture and a strategy of organizations and their leaders. The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. It is an expectation placed upon us at a very young age.
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Every company needs to determine if its strategy requires an [.]. biz leaders: It's time to rethink everything BlackBerry DuPont Facebook Fortune Magazine Fortune on PBS Geoff Colvin Google Harold Longman Award Hewlett-Packard Home Depot Instagram Intuit Kodak Listen up Microsoft Motorola Nokia Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else the Great Depression Wall Street Week We're not living in ordinary economic times What is our core?
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 14, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I just finished reading an article where the author (a self professed innovation guru) recommended strategy be aligned with capability, and that to allow ambition to exceed capability is a nothing short of a recipe for disaster.
Eric Jacobson
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty.
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty.
Six Disciplines
MARCH 21, 2011
The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. It's what we describe in detail in Discipline III. As a result, it becomes an increasing drag on the success of the company until corrected. Strategic misalignment occurs suddenly, when the leadership sets a strategic VFO (vital few objective) -- but the systems and resources of the organization are not deployed to support it.
Six Disciplines
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Different experts may use alternate terms for these concepts, but rather than fixating on terminology for now, it’s better to focus on understanding the underlying principles.
Eric Jacobson
JULY 2, 2014
Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Panhandle developed its strategy around dealing with this uncertainty.
Crossderry Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Football By Football started at the beginning of the 2014 National Football League season, and it lays out its strategy on the home page: FootballByFootball.com is a football analysis website providing unique player-writer generated content; owned & operated by experienced football players. You could see someone who barely made it through a meeting with back pain lined up for conditioning.
Six Disciplines
MARCH 15, 2013
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” The answer: it takes a complete program. Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. Different experts may use alternate terms for these concepts, but rather than fixating on terminology for now, it’s better to focus on understanding the underlying principles.
The Leadership Advisor
MARCH 29, 2011
When most companies think about footing the bill for educating their employees, the ever-present caveat is that it must be related to you role. Good logic, but is it too narrow? It allows you to see if they can be broadened and how essential they are/aren’t to your performance.
The Empowered Buisness
JANUARY 2, 2014
Is over-emphasizing positive thinking in your company’s culture, actually creating negativity without you even knowing it? Is having 0% employee turnover actually a good thing to sing high praises about, or is it overshadowing another truth ? Rather to learn from it.
In the CEO Afterlife
JUNE 8, 2016
This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.”
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 14, 2016
In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. He is accountable for returning value to customers by driving the strategy to ensure returns for the next five years. It is a good practice.
Six Disciplines
AUGUST 1, 2011
Think about it for a minute. Sure, you'll come up with a long laundry list of challenges: competitive pressures, growth and expansion, talent shortages, price sensitivity, margins, R&D, industry consolidation.and the list goes on - AND - it changes every day.forever. Once a challenge has been addressed or solved, it's replaced by another challenge (and if you're good at solving problems, the challenges get even greater, not easier!). Is this the way it HAS to be?
Six Disciplines
AUGUST 1, 2011
Think about it for a minute. Sure, you'll come up with a long laundry list of challenges: competitive pressures, growth and expansion, talent shortages, price sensitivity, margins, R&D, industry consolidation.and the list goes on - AND - it changes every day.forever. Once a challenge has been addressed or solved, it's replaced by another challenge (and if you're good at solving problems, the challenges get even greater, not easier!). Is this the way it HAS to be?
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 16, 2012
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true.
Crossderry Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Football By Football started at the beginning of the 2014 National Football League season, and it lays out its strategy on the home page: FootballByFootball.com is a football analysis website providing unique player-writer generated content; owned & operated by experienced football players. You could see someone who barely made it through a meeting with back pain lined up for conditioning.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 7, 2015
Then, it executed several strategic moves with seemingly little communication and proceeded to churn its executive ranks through a revolving door. In the process, Reddit upset nearly everyone; investors, employees and its fanatical community of users alike. You can't do it alone.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true.
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. 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. Monitor and Learn: hold strategy reviews; hold operational reviews.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Your business thrives on how effective its marketing strategy is. Marketing is a concept that can almost consume a business that hasn’t got its strategy in order. Most businesses place a vast proportion of their budget towards marketing and its various sub-categories.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 21, 2012
When it comes to hiring, it’s all about quality, not quantity. Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. It’s true.
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 4, 2011
In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. 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. Monitor and Learn: hold strategy reviews; hold operational reviews.
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
I learned quickly that if I was going to do my job effectively, I would have to earn their respect, not think it would be granted automatically because I was in the front of the classroom. We live in a skeptical world.
Change Starts Here
JUNE 21, 2016
It tells you what is capturing their hope and anticipation, and what gives them the energy to move forward. This is good feedback because it tells you what part of the change they’re connecting with (sometimes it’s not what you thought it would be).
Crossderry Blog
MAY 5, 2009
Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Filed under: Innovation Tagged: | Akio Morita , interdependence , PM Quote of the Day « Manager-Leader Gap in IT Strategy Deming and Project Management » Like Be the first to like this post. Home About Experience Trap/Complexity Set KM Set Metrics Set Crossderry Blog Entries RSS | Comments RSS Where’s Crossderry read?
Crossderry Blog
MAY 4, 2009
Manager-Leader Gap in IT Strategy » Like Be the first to like this post. Home About Experience Trap/Complexity Set KM Set Metrics Set Crossderry Blog Entries RSS | Comments RSS Where’s Crossderry read?
Survive Your Promotion
JANUARY 22, 2010
It’s tough to build an IT strategy when you want to spend all of your money to support your mission, so many non-profits lack both the resources and the understanding of how to leverage IT within their organizations. Survive Your Promotion!
Bird's Eye View
MAY 6, 2013
The title of the discussion was "Nice-to-have or Core Strategy? It was quite a group and there was a variety of perspective around the table about just how important--or not--design is to the way businesses make their money. or was it something else.
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