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Organizational Alignment: A Critical Element in Strategy Implementation
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Is your brilliant new strategic plan at risk of failing before it even starts? If you haven't addressed organizational alignment, it might be. While...
Strategic Management
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Cross-Departmental Planning: Making Strategy Operational
A strategic plan sets the direction, but success lies in the details of execution. While organizations often excel at departmental planning,...
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Strategic Communication: The Bridge Between Vision and Action
Even the most brilliant strategic plan can fail without effective communication. While many organizations have sophisticated marketing and...
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Is There a Right Way to Implement a Strategic Plan?
There is no nice way to say this: Strategic plans often fail because senior management neglects to ensure new strategic thinking is adopted and...
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4 Disciplines Essential to Strategy Implementation
You have spent months working on your strategic plan, and now, finally, it has been approved. Kudos to you and your team! Now, what? How do you...
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3 Steps to Evaluate Emerging Issues (without disrupting your plan)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and pretty soon you have a dozen." -- John Steinbeck I like rabbits, but I love ideas. Too many of either...
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Are Your Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Strategic?
Plans are set, goals are defined, budgets are negotiated, and a new year begins. Teams review their goals and their budget, then go right back to...
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Renew Strategic Thinking without Rewriting your Strategic Plan
Strategic thinking can and does happen every day, but it is rarely adequately optimized. Here is why. Strategic thinking requires a shift in mindset...
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Break the Cycle of Setting and Forgetting this Year's Strategic Goals
The start of a year provides an ideal opportunity to define new goals and set a new course for the coming year. A new year invites optimism for this...
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How to Discern Operational Targets from Strategic Objectives.
If it is the start of a new year, it is goal-setting time. If you are like most, you reviewed how well you performed against last year’s goals and...