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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Overdoing Tactical Performance.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy.

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

While large consulting firms push expensive “war games” at the leadership level, Jessica ran cheap and quick local games based on local market dynamics. She then fed the results as market intelligence input into a senior leadership competitive game. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.