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. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

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

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation. Whereas the British Academy report seems to wish away the hard choices and trade offs companies must make, Kaplan’s book places them front and center.

Kaplan 68

Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 68

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

New players are rapidly emerging, enabled by disruptive technology, refusing to play by industrial era rules. Business model innovators aren't constrained by existing business models. Business model innovation is becoming the new strategic imperative for all organization leaders. Business models aren't just for business.

Business Model 16

Business Model Kaplan Finance Health Care 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. Second, that certain arenas of human activity are off-limits to creativity.

Creative Accounting 15

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

Learning Curve 14

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Over the last few years, Dirk began to realize that the business model for wholesale distribution was dramatically changing as manufacturers increasingly sell direct to consumers, and large firms like Amazon and Grainger use their technology and scale to squeeze out the traditional middlemen. As he says, "It's the right thing to do.".

Storytelling 10

Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Firms are failing faster than they used to , for instance, and there is substantial evidence that the gap between winning and losing firms is partly driven by technology adoption.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

The web did not invent community-driven brands – just think of Harley Davidson — but technology has surely made the strategy more popular. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world. Yet that’s exactly the problem.

Media 10

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 10