Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Strategy is about the “how.” A policy may have an implementation strategy behind it. They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world. How do you move toward a desired end, despite limited means and huge obstacles?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Among the half-dozen tactics to improve your leadership communication skills offered by Dr. Andrew Newberg in Fast Company is this juicy nugget: learn to control your inner voice. Verizon made headlines last week with a new approach to mobile-data pricing, but according to Slate's Farhad Manjoo, much of its strategy is still "dumb."

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Wireless Airlines Media Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy. CIOs need to develop an affirmative IT strategy that begins by identifying old behaviors to give up, new behaviors to adopt, and remaining behaviors to do differently. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. This is just one example of how Mars is trying to create and sustaining agility through competitive intelligence (CI). Simply and clearly put, CI is a perspective on changing market conditions.

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Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

We believe that in business as in basketball, understanding what bracket you're competing in is key to shaping your competitive strategy and tactics. For a powerful example of how this understanding can shape strategy, consider the electric razor industry. Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy.

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Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture. Excerpts: Why did you focus on culture?

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