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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

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. Strategic investments are critical to future business success.

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Talking About Ethics Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Once they have crafted a viable and realistic script or action plan for the imagined case protagonist, they will feel more empowered to think about what they themselves would do. How might you get it done?” ” This frees from the need to rationalize or defend their reluctance to act.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Devise an approach and plan. Launch the team and start executing on the plan. Operations in a Connected World. Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

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

Strategy Driven

But there’s only one that really matters: Did your company effectively execute its plans and initiatives? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure. The questions you could ask during your year-end assessment are endless.

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My 12 “Must Read” Best Leadership Books for 2014

The Empowered Buisness

Tatum discusses the 5 critical success factors for managing, driving and sustaining growth, along with case studies of companies that succeeded or failed during No Man’s Land. EXECUTING YOUR PLAN & ACHIEVING RESULTS. Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm.

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