Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It’s a big piece of the business puzzle, and sometimes it requires more than one person or one team in your business to work it. You can hire people in on a project by project basis and have the experts holding your team together to get through it. You need experts, and those experts don’t have to be on the payroll.

Outsourcing 71

Outsourcing Finance Software Project 71

Change Starts Here

JUNE 21, 2016

Several years ago, in preparation for a transformation workshop with a client’s top management team, I was designing the feedback to collect at the end of the session. After almost 5 years and counting, I still ask the questions a few times a year at the end of each management team workshop.

Workshop 113

Workshop Participative Long-term Survey 113

leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Leaders need their employees to stay on board during the changes and continue to contribute to its strategy. Businesses with high levels of employee satisfaction, productivity and working teams pay attention to building trust. She currently serves on The Grossman Group team as a Senior Thoughtpartner. _. About Julie Freeman.

Restructuring 151

Restructuring Learning-by-Doing CEO Business Model 151

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

As McChrystal describes in Team of Teams , the challenge wasn’t so much that he needed to develop new resources, but that he had to access surveillance and intelligence assets —many of which were not under his direct control—more effectively. Close-knit teams learn to see things in terms of their own challenges.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

If the overall experience doesn’t please and excite the customer, a company is hard-pressed to outsize its strategy. I have sat through many strategy meetings listening to bright leaders dream up bold plans without vetting their financial feasibility. What are some of the main struggles teams face during an outsizing challenge?

Strategy 78

Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 78

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. The team, however, will focus attention on other key areas in 2019, implying that some will be deployed to other projects handled by the company.

Project 40

Project Restructuring Automotive System 40

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that executes its strategy is the greatest core competence an organization can have -- and doing so is the greatest challenge in business. Strategy development involves a few people, periodically, but execution involves every team member, every minute of every day.

Core Competence 103

Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 103

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that executes its strategy is the greatest core competence an organization can have -- and doing so is the greatest challenge in business. Strategy development involves a few people, periodically, but execution involves every team member, every minute of every day.

Core Competence 98

Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 98

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Your team and your user community will follow you up the hill, help you capture the enemy flag and celebrate victory with you. Second, to kick off that game plan , a team must be completely aligned.

How To 50

How To Leadership Competitive Advantage Consensus 50

CO2

APRIL 30, 2013

In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. When it doesn’t (when strategy isn’t shaped by culture), customers and employees tend to get thrown by the bull. Complex systems, like modern aircraft, require a team effort to operate.

Executive Coaching 134

Executive Coaching Operations Strategy System 134

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

Overt aspects of culture often utilize the reasoning, intellectual parts of our brain — the dominant focus of today’s leadership teams. The leadership team is no longer involved lower levels and often becomes oblivious to the atrophy now monopolizing its culture. Strategy can be imitated by your competitors.

Company 135

Company Organization Cost Self-aware 135

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 14, 2012

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. Create an online alignment portal.

System 115

System Critical Success Factor Metrics Consultative 115

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. Next, Alphatech set out to redesign its sales processes in order to support its new strategy. But by 2012 growth slowed, revenues flattened, and margins declined. Here’s how: Identifying good customers. It did this in a few ways.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

You’re talking to teams who have a great deal of experience in helping businesses like yours and if you’re serious about investing some money in your technological and IT infrastructure then this is where the best advice is going to be found. Getting Outside Help Gives You the Competitive Edge. Future Proofing Your Business.

Consultative 10

Consultative Technology Budgeting Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The same is true for any team or organization. But there are two types that are important for success.

Organization 13

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. Connecting Teams. That led to creating the right environment for teams. Now brand, media and digital teams are organized to center around creating a better consumer experience.

Content 8

Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Leaders and their teams are strapped — and competing — for resources. Distracted by pet initiatives that have little to do with the new strategy, they revert to old habits.

Strategy 8

Strategy Restructuring Committee Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

The promise of being part of a hip, equity-incentivized, fast growing team? Strategy and goal setting. If the original intent of an off-site retreat was to help teams bond, what needs to shift now that the company has tripled in size? Ping-Pong tables, free meals, and beer on tap? Yoga, CrossFit classes, and massage chairs?

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

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. It also placed a team charged with ensuring an excellent experience for each customer segment. ” he asked.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Team members and colleagues began to see her as a conflict avoider, and she lost their trust. For example, “You seem to be suggesting that we really need to focus on elevating our gross revenue before we invest in a new IT strategy. So how does someone like Sarah learn to embrace, rather than avoid, disagreement? Is that right?”

Parcell 14

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These are the choices that a business strategy comprises and they should drive the decisions a business unit’s management team, functions, and staff make every day, including pricing, R&D, where to manufacture, and many more. This brings me to implementation.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Mission Statement Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Her answer to the paradox is to populate organizations with "zero-gravity thinkers": innovators "who are not weighed down by the expertise of a team, its politics, or 'the way things have always been done.'" In Rabe's formula, zero-gravity thinkers come from outside the corporate mainstream and work deep within the ranks of the organization.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For the next year, Jessica Eliasi, then the director of Competitive Intelligence at Mars Chocolate, travelled the world running “competitive simulation” games with local market teams from Russia to Mexico to Turkey to England. These simulations were not some computer-based hypothetical games.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team. Kim and his team made LG the market leader, dominating major categories in India such as color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, and microwave ovens. What matters in an emerging market isn't nationality alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Procurement teams are often disconnected from the functions they serve and the markets they engage. Procurement teams tend to rely on processes that are far too slow to support the business’s needs. Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Organizational isolation. Glacial processes.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The company better aligned the workforce mix to its strategy, by optimizing different talent acquisition channels, manager spans of control (number of workers reporting to them), and worker mobility. The workshops encouraged and equipped the operating managers and HR teams to take a fresh look at their workforce goals and options.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. An enterprise software company confronted this issue after it shifted its strategy to focus on cross-selling in larger, Tier 1 and 2 accounts — those with the most potential spending across the company’s product portfolio.

Software 11

Software Metrics CRM B2B 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity?

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. The human capacity to operationalize a purpose is evident in the sublime unspoken synergy of a great athletic team, the interplay of a fine symphony orchestra, or the vibrant functionality of a healthy community. In retrospect, it seems inevitable.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

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. To some extent, you can secure the necessary flexibility by negotiating it up front.

Innovation 12

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

These behaviors include ensuring that everyone on a team gets heard, giving actionable feedback, empowering team members to make decisions, and making it safe to propose novel ideas. Companies should put systems in place to help not only individuals with disabilities, but their managers and peers as well.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

What if," I asked, "the day after a meeting, the team discovered its strategy needed a wholesale revision?" I remember distinctly a large company that proudly told me about how it got all of its most important executives to sit on an all-powerful innovation board that met every 90 days. A scarcity mentality.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Banking Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

This definition of strategy can be disconcerting to those who have spent a lifetime generating traditional strategic plans. Not long ago I facilitated a day long strategy session with the senior team of a very successful $10 billion company with an outstanding CEO. I suspect that CEO will never go back.

Planning 13

Planning Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

. “We found the perfect strategy” ranks with “And they lived happily ever after” as a perpetual myth. A strategy is never excellent in and of itself; it is shaped, enhanced, or limited by implementation. Top leaders can provide the framework and tools for a team, but the game is won on the playing field.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Most CIOs find it relatively easy to convince an executive team to invest in a technology that increases near-term revenue. Companies can no longer get away with treating IT as a commodity. These companies face a technical debt, and it''s time to pay up.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8