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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

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.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (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.”

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

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.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

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. Tim Koller leads the firm’s research activities in valuation and capital market issues.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful.

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Avoid the Improvement Hype Cycle

Harvard Business Review

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.". And "What can we do now to ensure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past?"