Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

To understand why many organizations fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and delivery, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), supported by the Brightline Initiative, recently undertook a global multi-sector survey of 500 senior executives from companies with annual revenues of $1 billion or more. Brightline.org/reports.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a new survey of 500 global leaders by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), most executives reported that their companies have a hard time delivering the strategies they’ve designed — with significant consequences. Deliver a Strategy That Works by Managing Culture and Communication.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As strategies move from design to implementation inside the company, outside forces are continually changing: New competitors emerge, the economic and regulatory pictures shift, and customers have new demands. Read more from Brightline Initiative: Guiding Principles for Closing the Gap Between Strategy Design and Delivery.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Dell’s executive leadership team focuses on systematically addressing the issues on the company’s strategy agenda. Value flexibility.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

An ERP system is an enterprise business management software program that organizes and tracks large company’s resources (cash, raw materials, production capacity, etc.) SOX severely limited even more the interaction between management consulting and financial auditing services. 1982 - Price Waterhouse World Firm formed.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Bridgespan has a board of 12 distingushed trustees whose backgrounds include both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, two of them being Thomas Tierney, Cofounder & Chairman, and Bob Bechek, Worldwide Managing Director of Bain & Company. Funding Strategy. Global Strategy. Strategy Development.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Work those into your behavior change strategy. Develop Content That’s Worthy of Attention.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At one client company, I encouraged the CEO’s direct reports to cue him: “Is that a ‘blue sky’ discussion or are you thinking about it as part of the current plan?” Any great ideas we have for anything else will be recorded and taken up in the appropriate staff/strategy/development meetings.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Unfortunately, strategy communication , even if you do it daily, is not the same as — and is not enough to drive — strategy execution. Because while strategy development and communication are about knowing something, strategy execution is about doing something. Those are the people you should choose.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” The entire industry obsesses each year, even each week, with reports of unit sales of cars, influencing the behavior of auto producers, suppliers, channel partners, industry analysts, and investors.

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