Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

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. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Discipline IV.

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

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. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Discipline I. Discipline IV.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

Different strategies are applied every day after some crucial changes only to get a higher rank than the competitor in the online marketplace. Those working on their website for a very long period are well known for the SEO and its strategies, due to which they are ranking higher consistently, but newcomers face the issue.

Advertising 65

Advertising Engineering Blog Strategy 65

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

Is over-emphasizing positive thinking in your company’s culture, actually creating negativity without you even knowing it? A good example is the obsession with positive thinking within organizations. I am in favor of developing a mindset and culture that focuses on positivity, as long as it is authentic. Don’t get me wrong.

Company 135

Company Organization Cost Self-aware 135

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Managers, he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control. Managers provide the continuity needed to execute efficiently and leaders drive the kinetic energy needed to respond dynamically to the needs of the marketplace. Lafley, are both great managers and great leaders. Every organization needs both.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Change Starts Here

APRIL 24, 2012

In 2008, I started Enclaria to help change agents like you make a positive difference in your organization and for the people who work in it. People started asking me if I had a change management kit based on what really works. Since then, I have worked with clients in many different roles, projects and organizations.

Webinar 78

Webinar Price Resistance Workshop 78

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

That's because the key variable in a team's prospects isn't just its skill level, but its region and seeding — its position in the brackets — that determine its odds of advancing toward the championship. Unfortunately, many managers misunderstand their competitive set, and that leads to strategic mistakes.

Management 15

Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

When confronted with a problem or dispute, we either move away (flee the scene, rely on others for resolution), move against (quietly using positional power to quell opposing arguments) or move toward (make nice, give in). There’s no question that an ability to manage conflict is part and parcel of all three. This is natural.

Parcell 13

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Among the 75% of employees with disabilities who say they have market-worthy ideas, 48% say their ideas went ignored by people with the power to act on them, 57% feel stalled in their careers, and 47% feel they would never achieve a position of power at their company, no matter how high-performing or qualified they are.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The 15-word constraint is a test that often reveals a profound lack of alignment among managers. In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. But it’s more difficult than it seems.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. For example, large biopharma companies compete in many categories and tend to accumulate an array of follower positions. Related Video. Your Scarcest Resource. But that drags down shareholder returns.

Zero Based Budgeting 13

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

How should your résumé reference the previous position, or should you even include it? And how can you go into the application process feeling positive about your prospects? Say, for instance, your dismissal was due to a personality clash with your manager or a mismatched cultural fit. What the Experts Say.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. The economies of scale such a position would deliver would enable the group to keep the jobs in Wolfsburg. Take the case of BP.

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Strategy is not planning — it is the making of an integrated set of choices that collectively position the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage relative to competition and deliver superior financial returns. Obviously you can't execute a strategy without initiatives, investments, and budgeting.

Planning 13

Planning Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Using new software to analyze the digital exhaust of calendar and email metadata provides a practical way to build an accurate profile of how frontline sales representatives and managers spend their time, who they interact with externally and internally, and what effect this has on sales performance. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

Software 10

Software Metrics CRM B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. Growth: A TV cable company offers special subscription plans for new customers, aiming to achieve a strong market position within 24 months. Why is it that?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

How well does your organization support the achievement of your business strategy? “Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This is ineffective deal management, and it eventually leads to loss of positioning with customers, and, over time, the nurturing of “commodity competencies.” At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. Here’s how: Identifying good customers.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change. New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Take insurance, for example.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. Recognize the fragility of your position and don’t concentrate your bets.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This leaves operating managers, the ultimate “consumers” of talent, to choose between two talent acquisitions methods (or “sourcing channels”): Either engage HR to acquire employees or engage Procurement to acquire contingent workers. Create one integrated workforce strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Like a startup, you have to get the market fit right, but you also have to fight the corporate systems at the same time, dealing with the rules, procedures, and approval processes that every big company has in place to support its strategy. By and large, corporate strategies and the internal rules they engender are good and useful.

Innovation 11

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Plasticity needs to be actively nurtured by leaders who free people to be guided not solely by management dictates but also by the company’s clarity of purpose. In retrospect, it seems inevitable. ” Aim for the golden mean.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Hence, when a new potential stream of revenue presents itself, the company’s management feels it cannot afford to just leave it. Yet Capitec’s management was thinking ahead.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Google’s strategy to date has been to build great consumer software, then extend these popular applications to enterprises with additional features, often at a fraction of the cost of competitors. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Numerous frameworks exist for answering this question.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy.

Company 8

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

Almost every organization today is putting customer experience (CX) at the core of its strategy, aiming to provide products and services that meet customers at every touch point. “In traditional brand management, marketers are responsible for specific product lines,” he says.

Marketing 9

Marketing Content Insurance Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. Assure that cyber security is well-managed not only through company headquarters, but all along the supply and value chain.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

By building internal campaigns based on market and customer insights, you bring your strategy to life for your employees through this important lens. Expose managers first then provide them with easy-to-implement formats for bringing their teams together, with toolkits that include all the materials they'll need. And don't disappear.

Strategy 15

Strategy Education Content Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy. When clustering markets, grouping only countries that can be effectively managed as one cluster is critical, and strong distributor relationships and oversight are essential.

GDP 8

GDP Politics Marketing Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

HP finds itself in a complicated position. It can be easy to dramatically expand revenue and profits when you are the upstart in an emerging sector — but once you're on top, sustaining this leadership position isn't easy. He blamed the Japan earthquake, the anemic PC market, and a troubled services organization.

Software 12

Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. On the contrary, success was achieved by senior managers humble enough not to take their initial strategic positions too seriously.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Mexico’s growth comes mainly from a growing labor force; Indonesia’s and Nigeria’s from capital productivity; and Turkey has seen positive contributions from the labor force, but negative contributions from capital. Having said that, it is also true that executives need help managing their globalization gambits.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

The design of environments inside clinical settings has also demonstrated positive impact on patient outcomes, particularly for children. Before the hospital brought in their architect, the care team devised its strategy and process for providing a new care model to mothers and their premature infants. Reduced Pain.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. In contrast, IBM kept laser-like focus on building the global organization to execute its strategy, and financial results followed.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15