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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Frank Sonnenberg makes the case in Managing with a Conscience , that the only sustainable way to succeed is the right way—not cutting corners—emphasizing the intangibles like trust, creativity, focus, speed, flexibility, relationships, loyalty, and employee commitment. Management should announce an open-door policy.

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Don’t Overlook These Valuable Details Before Launching Your Business

Strategy Driven

Therefore, we recommend you sketch out a comprehensive picture of how you will promote your business even before commencing operations. You can evaluate their critical success factors and gray areas to exploit the market to your advantage.

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

And because the pace of change is swift, management must respond with equal speed — that is, with rapid realignment. Identifies and eliminates operational and cultural barriers to execution. My immediate manager is passionate about make our strategy a success. Create an online alignment portal. A chat room.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. It’s not that there is one right process to work on first but the choice of a poor project creates many challenges that often lead to a bad name for the whole concept of business process management.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. When one million bottles of St. For example, some of Toyota’s former U.S.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential.

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What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data

Harvard Business Review

One of the CEOs actually declared that the surge of new data might even lead to losses because his firm's management and business processes couldn't cost-effectively manage it. Is big data being used to run a business process or create situational awareness for top management? Big data doesn't inherently lead to better results.