Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Gary Harpst is the direct opposite.”

CTO 101

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Numerous organizations have subsequently advocated and implemented the balanced scorecard idea. We advocate that companies choose their own set of metrics tailored to their industries and strategies.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Review 80

Review Technology Strategy Books 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15