Ben de Haldevang

APRIL 15, 2019

We’re not talking about the direction of travel here, some broad sense of where strategic benefit might exist, that would hardly do. Let’s accept that the $ financial model is flawed; identify assumptions and re-baseline post completion. All that is written cannot be changed…the tablets of stone of the business case!

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Analysis Travel Energy Financial 45

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Strategic vision needs successful strategy execution to create sustainable results. Blockbuster growth can also hide significant strategy, culture and talent flaws that will rear their ugly head when your competitive advantage undeniably shrinks (e.g. Strategic Clarity Sets the Stage for Successful Strategy Execution.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Every organization needs strategic thinkers. In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Thinking Strategically. check the strategic plan.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While conducting research on recent dramatic cases of strategic failure in different industries, involving vastly different business models and strategies, we discovered a common pattern: What started as small gaps in execution spiraled into business failures when initial strategies were not altered based on new information provided by experience.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

The fact is, many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem, since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. We asked each to answer detailed questions about their approach to strategic decision making. Now it gets much more difficult.

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Interviews 47

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Value flexibility.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

“I just need to get a handle on this new industry” Believe it or not, when I was younger I was interested in keeping fit (I still have the body of a 32 year old obese man). Pounding all those roads on long runs, we learned one key lesson. It was critically important to start at the correct pace. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge.

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Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Yet most strategic initiatives fail to deliver, and they do so at great cost in time and resources. In a new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 90 percent of respondents said their organizations failed to reach all of their strategic goals because of flawed implementation. Why are principles so important?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

Having taught undergraduate economics for a number of years, I wanted to pen a list of some of the ideas that appear flawed but which form the basic pillars of mainstream economics. This assumption is popular because it allows simple mathematics to be used to solve maximisation problems. In reality, people are lazy. Profit maximisation.

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Productivity Balance Sheet Marketing Government 97

LSA Global

APRIL 12, 2017

Fortunately, done right, the selection process is far more rational and strategic than the blindfolded method in the cartoon above. Make those first few months of new employee onboarding full of learning opportunities and set out a plan for your new employee’s future development that will keep them learning and growing.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

Human Resource Planning, 2006. This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Many HR functions have gone through the process of transformation over the past decade.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

He had a solid plan that took advantage of new technologies, and the board and his leadership team were aligned around it. In other words, your organization’s biggest strategic challenge isn’t strategic thinking — it’s strategic acting. It’s also true for fast-growing startups.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

There are (at least) three major flaws with it. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. The executive needs a business case. Metrics Are Not Your Friends.

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Ethics Metrics Energy Financial 50

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

It is given first consideration, which determines other elements of the broader business plan. They remain tactical in approach and lack a cohesive strategic focus. The digital world is far more transparent and ruthlessly revealing of weaknesses and flaws in strategy and execution. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Enterprise Insurance Insurance Agile 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

These numbers reflect a fundamentally flawed approach to thinking about systems. Problems happen when competitive and necessary work get too close, and the urgency of the everyday undermines the strategic work of remaining competitively focused. Again, those choices must be driven by strategic requirements noted above.

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Talent Fashion Groups McKinsey 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

They are likelier to inspire false and/or misplaced confidence in their findings; to amplify or further entrench data-based biases; and to reinforce — or even exacerbate — the very human flaws of the people who deploy them. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS. There may even be biases in detecting biases.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

” “Instead of confronting a problem in a project plan, it was whispered about. Several months of work were put into implementing the plan even though all those involved knew it contained fatal flaws. Strategic missteps. Her boss wouldn’t even cross her. This went on for years until she retired.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

How to overcome this bias: Before the meeting: Share the purpose of the meeting, provide any relevant data ahead of time, and list the specific discussion questions you plan to cover. The large global bank I referred to at the beginning of this article has a small but strategic team located in Singapore. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

These traps did not emerge from people’s weakness, lack of expertise, or character flaws but were often the direct result of many of the talents and skills that had allowed them to excel in so many other situations. They come up against problems that refuse to budge no matter how hard they push. Other studies reveal similar waste.

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Course Energy Study Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

Formal, planned interactions don’t provide these moments. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products. Great leaders, especially in large organizations, aren’t really people. They’re mental images. Have high standards?

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Insurance Insurance Video Interviews 28