The Strategy Execution Barometer
The Strategy Execution Barometer

Author: Koen Schreurs

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9789081487320

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The Strategy Execution Barometer - Research Report 2009/2010 is the leading resource worldwide for practical, fact-based Strategy Execution market data. It provides the reader with up-to-date information to evaluate the execution capabilities of your organisation. The Strategy Execution Barometer includes: - Strategy Execution data from 1100+ companies, 36 countries and 29 sectors - 30 key findings with experts' comments - 12 insights (to learn) from the best-in-class - 53 figures with comprehensive market data - Detailed gap analysis between average performers and the best-in-class The Strategy Execution Barometer helps the reader to improve their Strategy Execution capabilities: - Use the data to assess the cornerstones of sound Strategy Execution including strategy communication, strategic initiative management, individual objectives setting and pay-for-performance. - Compare yourself with leading companies such as HSBC, GDFSuez, 3M, Johnson&Johnson and Google. The report covers all major industries including financial services, healthcare, professional services, manufacturing and FMCG. - Use the information to build a solid action plan that will help to boost the execution capabilities on team, division or company level. Get new ideas to boost the performance management. - Find out what leading companies are doing today to improve their performance management. Access the latest trends via 30 key findings analysed and commented by our experts. - The Strategy Execution Barometer provides a wealth of inspiration to improve the performance management practice in any organisation.

The Strategy Execution Barometer - Expanded Edition
The Strategy Execution Barometer - Expanded Edition

Author: Jeroen De Flander

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9789081487351

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On average, companies loose 40 to 60 percent of their strategic potential during execution. Image the amount of money you could save by closing that gap. But in order to take the next step - to close that gap - organisations need a more detailed view on exactly where they are losing performance. Knowing that your organisation loses between 40 and 60 percent of its strategic potential on the execution highway between the city 'strategy' and the city 'performance', is an interesting fact but doesn't really help solve your problem. Our latest research -- the Strategy Execution Barometer Expanded Edition -- helps you get the job done. Since 2001, the Strategy Execution Barometer has been the leading resource worldwide for practical, fact-based Strategy Execution market data. It provides you with detailed information to evaluate the execution capabilities of your organisation. Over the last 14 months, we have researched for the sixth time what is happening out there, which trends really matter and those that are merely noise or hype. In this new, expanded edition, we have added 23 pages that explain in detail the nine biggest strategy and Strategy Execution trends that you should take into account when building your 2020 vision. They are: Strategy and Innovation - Trend 1: Shared Value: a new approach to capitalism - Trend 2: China: your double-digit profit growth factory? - Trend 3: Innovation execution: a new success ingredient discovered People and Organisations - Trend 4: More and more complex organisational structures - master the matrix - Trend 5: The talent pool: specialisation and globalisation - Trend 6: From time management to energy management Skills and Motivation - Trend 7: Leadership programmes: execution skills in the picture - Trend 8: People development changes radically - Trend 9: Individual performance cycle goes agile Besides this new section, you will find our trusted benchmark data: - Strategy Execution data from 1400+ companies, 36 countries and 23 sectors - 30 key findings with experts' comments - 12 insights (to learn) from the best-in-class - 53 figures with comprehensive market data - Detailed gap analysis between average performers and the best-in-class

Strategy Execution and Complexity
Strategy Execution and Complexity

Author: Richard Busulwa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1351232177

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Almost all organisations today face unprecedented levels of change, complexity and volatility. Navigating the resultant disruption dynamics is one of the most important stewardship challenges facing strategic leaders. Getting it right can pay enormous dividends, but getting it wrong can lead to spectacular failure and the ultimate demise of once admired organisations. To address this threat, strategic leaders need to better understand how to navigate complexity and volatility and how to execute strategy in this rapidly changing environment. This book identifies 12 different strategy execution processes used to realise deliberate and emergent strategies – each illustrated with case studies and essential lessons for strategic leaders. The authors then discuss the effectiveness of these processes in different types of complex environments, showing how, used in isolation, each process can, at times, impede performance, sometimes creating survival risks that materialise today or in the future. The authors show the importance of "ambidexterity" and the need for organisations to balance the pursuit of internal efficiency and external market flexibility, both of which are essential to thriving in complex environments. This book provides essential tools for leaders to rethink and reconfigure their strategy execution practices in light of the significant change surrounding their organisations. The book is based on a 5-year, multistage study comprehensively reviewing cutting-edge research on strategy execution, reviewing seminal texts on strategy execution and, through in-depth case study interviews and cross-sectional surveys, identifying contemporary strategy execution practices of a range of different organisations across industries and sectors.

Managing for performance excellence
Managing for performance excellence

Author: Kurt Verweire

Publisher: Lannoo Meulenhoff - Belgium

Published: 2012-05-24

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9401404208

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Managing for Performance Excellence provides practitioners with an integrative framework that highlights the key ingredients of an effective approach to performance management. It describes the formal process of planning, measuring and monitoring performance that companies need to develop as the first step towards becoming a highperforming organisation. As the numerous examples show, a well-functioning process by itself does not guarantee enduring success. Based on an in-depth analysis of real-life situations, the authors draw attention to potential pitfalls and highlight four concrete performance management challenges that companies need to address: clear strategic focus; engaging climate; collaborative structure; and solid information infrastructure. Performance management is examined from a number of different perspectives, with ample illustrations and practical guidelines against which readers can benchmark their own organisations. These insights are a product of the multidisciplinary pool of expertise present at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School; a school renowned for its successful mix of academic knowledge and business relevance.

Strategy Execution Heroes - Expanded Edition Business Strategy Implementation and Strategic Management Demystified
Strategy Execution Heroes - Expanded Edition Business Strategy Implementation and Strategic Management Demystified

Author: Jeroen De Flander

Publisher:

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9789081487344

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This newly expanded edition offers fresh insights on the Balanced Scorecard and strategic thinking, 12 new downloads including a framework to pick the best KPIs for a business, and a 60-minute audio file from the Next Generation Strategy event where De Flander shared the stage with Michael Porter, Costas Markides, and Roger Martin, three of the world's top 50 thinkers.

Lords of Strategy
Lords of Strategy

Author: Walter Kiechel

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2010-03-03

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1422157318

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Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their posses instigated a profound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as never before, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. In The Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editor Walter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry: Bruce Henderson, founder of Boston Consulting Group Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the way we work.

Glitch
Glitch

Author: Jeff Papows Ph.D.

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2010-08-25

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0132488779

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Don’t Let Software Failures Destroy Your Business The growing impact of software failures on brands, customers, and business performance How to govern software more effectively, prepare for glitches, and mitigate their impact By Jeff Papows, Ph.D., one of the world’s most experienced software executives Your software systems are the heart of your business–and they may be vulnerable. In Glitch, industry leader Jeff Papows, Ph.D., outlines the three converging forces that are leading to the proliferation of glitches. Papows explains why and how these glitches are affecting businesses, government agencies, and consumers and provides recommendations as to what we can do about them. Written for senior decision makers, Papows explains why the risks of software failure are growing worse, not better–and shows how software glitches can destroy both your profitability and your reputation. He also introduces proven governance techniques that can help you systematically find and fix weaknesses in the way you build, buy, and manage software. Don’t fall victim to the next business software disaster. Read Glitch–and learn about the cultural, technical, and business issues behind software glitches, so you can proactively prevent them.

The Scorecard Solution
The Scorecard Solution

Author: Dan King

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0814434932

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There’s no such thing as a healthy plateau. In today’s high-pressure environment, simply “making the numbers” is no longer enough to remain competitive. Instead, exceeding expectations, raising the already high bar, and achieving more than others thought possible is the new path toward sustaining success. But doing so is certainly easier said than done! It requires a clear and objective view of the business and the ability to analyze appropriately the dimensions of talent, strategy, and execution in order to produce a baseline score to work from. Knowing that even the most courageous and objective leader can’t steer a ship in the dark, The Scorecard Solution is the solution for getting one started on this necessary task for every company’s long-lasting success. By learning how to use a data-centric tool--the Organizational Prowess ScorecardTM-- that precisely measures the capabilities needed for sustainable growth, readers will then understand better how to:• Position the organization to meet ambitious goals• Bring strategies to life through an execution framework• Design a dashboard to track progress and flag problems• Foster a winning culture• And moreIs your enterprise Agile? Resilient? Vulnerable? Lagging? This invaluable one-of-a-kind resource gives you the answers you need so that you can chart your company’s course for rapid change--and outperform the competition every time.

Beyond Performance
Beyond Performance

Author: Scott Keller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1118097467

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The secret of achieving and sustaining organizational excellence revealed In an ever-changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new tools to thrive. In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term. Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. In the book's foreword, management guru Gary Hamel refers to this notion as "a new manifesto for thinking about organizations." The authors illustrate why copying management best practices from other companies is more dangerous than helpful Clearly explains how to determine the mutually reinforcing combination of management practices that best fits your organization's context Provides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process: aspire, assess, architect, act, and advance. Among these are new techniques for dealing with those aspects of human behavior that are seemingly irrational (and therefore confound even the smartest leaders), yet entirely predictable Ultimately, building a healthy organization is an intangible asset that competitors copy at their peril and that enables you to skillfully adapt to and shape your environment faster than others—giving you the ultimate competitive advantage.

Strategy Execution Heroes
Strategy Execution Heroes

Author: Jeroen De Flander

Publisher:

Published: 2010-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9789081487313

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Strategy Execution is no longer 'the gap nobody knows', the title of the first chapter of the best-seller 'Execution'. Thanks to the authors Bossidy and Charan, Strategy Execution pioneers Kaplan and Norton, several leading articles in respected business magazines such as The Harvard Business Review and a host of research, organisations have become very aware that much great strategy is lost before it's turned into performance mainly as a result of poor execution skills. The performance gap is known. And it's time for companies to close it. This book will help you get the job done. 'Strategy Execution Heroes' will help you to: 1. Approach Strategy Execution from a manager's perspective. 2. Align individual and organisational performance in a simple, easy-to-communicate, sexy Strategy Execution framework. 3. Communicate your strategy effectively. 4. Set great objectives for yourself and your team members. 5. Coach others through the implementation maze. 6. Simplify your Strategy Execution process. 7. Select, manage and deliver your strategic initiatives. 8. Set up a development platform to boost the execution skills of others in the organisation. 9. Turn Strategy Execution into a competitive advantage. In short, 'Strategy Execution Heroes' will help you get the execution job done. Don't expect complex theories or fancy words. This book gets right to the point and won't waste your time. It will boost your learning with 250+ practical tips revealed by senior executives from BT, Coca-Cola, Lockheed Martin, eBay and many others. It will inspire your thinking with useful insights from top experts such as Sir John Whitmore, Dr Peter Scott-Morgan and Prof Vincent Lion. And it will put your action plan on the right track with 27 valuable downloads. So whether you are a future manager preparing for the challenge or an experienced senior executive, get ready to boost your execution skills. Become a Strategy Execution hero and turn your great strategy into great performance.