How IKEA Evolved Its Strategy While Keeping Its Culture Constant
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 17, 2024
If you’re leading your team through big changes, this episode is for you.
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Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2022
Strategies for leaders to align all three.
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The Secret to Changing Your Culture When It Doesn’t Align with Your Strategy
Leading Blog
AUGUST 8, 2023
Every time you become aware of a time when your organization does not deliver on its strategy, there is a possible culture-changing story there.” * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *
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How Eastern Bank Shifted Its Strategy to Compete with Online Lenders
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 23, 2023
How one 200-year-old regional bank in the U.S. used intrapreneurship to compete with online lenders.
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Choices to focus your business plan
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 18, 2021
The clearer a company is about what it is moving towards, the more successful it will be in executing its strategy. Success means performing activities aligned with the company’s vision – moving toward something intentionally defined, not away from something that doesn’t work. There’s more to success than the absence of issues.
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How Starbucks’s Culture Brings Its Strategy to Life
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2016
” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy work. Or they attempt to improve the situation by launching a culture initiative to “make the workplace more positive.”
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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All
Leading Blog
JANUARY 3, 2022
From Nokia Growth Partners’ Bo Ilsoe , we were reminded that a company may be struggling for traction not because its strategy is misdirected, but because it has the wrong individual at the top, and that for finding the right leader a meticulous and disciplined appraisal is essential for ensuring effective execution of the firm’s strategy.
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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company
Leading Blog
JANUARY 30, 2023
If a company puts its talent first in its strategy and decision-making, these problems won’t arise in the first place. The list of new terms goes on and on, but the point is that while these problems can’t be ignored, they aren’t new trends.
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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great
Leading Blog
MARCH 12, 2021
Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. Move away from the traditional matrix organizational model in favor of agile customer-focused teams supported by platform capabilities. Bureaucracy and distance from the customer are death in an age of volatility—and today’s leading-edge firms know it.
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Why Every Tech Company Needs ESG at the Core of Its Strategy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OPPO
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Sponsor content from OPPO.
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In Light of a Mixed Q3 Report, AMD Announces Job Cuts
HR Digest
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
As AMD moves forward with the job cuts, it will have to be prepared to make more real-time changes to its strategy beyond a reduction in its workforce, if it hopes to catch up with some of its top competitors and avoid the fate that some others are tackling right now.
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Increasing Employee Engagement During Turbulent Times and Significant Change in One Major Healthcare Company
leaderCommunicator
MARCH 25, 2019
Changes in the healthcare landscape forced sweeping changes to its strategy. A major division of a healthcare company that’s part of a Fortune 50 global healthcare conglomerate faced a tough road.
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Digital Strategy Does Not Equal IT Strategy
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation.
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What’s New in the EEOC’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan?
HR Digest
AUGUST 25, 2023
With the rapid evolution of technology and the gig economy, the EEOC acknowledges the need to adapt its strategies to address novel forms of discrimination. The Implementation Process of the EEOC’s Latest Strategy Implementing the new EEOC Strategic Plan requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach.
Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2017
Walmart’s recent change to free two-day shipping for online orders, no membership required, is the latest in a series of moves the company has made to fight Amazon and grow its e-commerce business. Last year, it purchased Jet.com and installed Jet’s founder, Marc Lore, as head of its e-commerce division.
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The Most Important Ingredient to Successful Leadership
Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 2, 2020
Again, the company adjusted its strategy and made a new huge bet on original content. Then Netflix recognized, that to stay competitive, it could not rely on other companies’ content, since these companies would start their own streaming services over time.
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Why a Business Coach Is Every Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 16, 2021
They can consistently remind you of your company’s vision, its mission, its goals, and its strategies for achieving them. While it’s easy to get distracted or overwhelmed by entrepreneurial opportunities, a business coach can help you stay focused and streamlined in your approach. The future of your business is now.
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Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 14, 2012
Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy. But if you want to rise above the crowd and become an innovative leader, I’d ask you to regard said advice for what it is – more of the same.
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379 Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2015
In a classic Harvard Business Review article , Abraham Zaleznick contrasted two very different styles of authority. Managers, he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control. Leaders, on the other hand, are more emotionally driven and seek to drive change. Every organization needs both.
The Case for More Company Insiders on Boards
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
However, with few exceptions, empirical studies have found no connection between board independence and company performance outcomes Business leaders should reconsider the merits of inside directors, who 1) bring a deeper understanding of the company, its strategy, R&D opportunities, and market competitors; 2) have a deeper stake in the company’s long-term (..)
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Key Governance Issues in Board Level Search
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2022
The board-level search provides understanding surrounding the performance and contributions of each Director, enabling the Board to best execute its strategies and achieve its future goals. A search for a new Board Director can greatly impact board governance by improving overall performance effectiveness in the long term.
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Dell Job Cuts Announced—Sales Teams Take the Hit as AI Plans Grow
HR Digest
AUGUST 7, 2024
With a new AI Select Sales team to join the AI Solution Sales team, the company intends to narrow down the exact elements of its strategy and begin work on making the most of emerging trends. Dell’s AI layoffs are not unique as we’ve seen other organizations free up resources to explore how they can intertwine their services with AI.
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When Confidence Helps Project Managers — and When It Gets Them into Trouble
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 13, 2023
A careful empirical analysis of more than 2,000 big-project outcomes by the authors of this article, experts in project management and behavioral science, suggests that this is not the case — a Just-Do-It strategy ends badly 80% of the time.
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Healthy Raises
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 14, 2016
In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. When confidence is not there, leaders encourage their people to continue their journey that ultimately enables them to achieve things they otherwise could not achieve.
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Why Your Management Information Should Be Curated In Real-Time
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 31, 2017
This management information environment must be part of future IT strategy plans to ensure its ongoing refinement and evolution. New roles, like Data Storyteller , may need to be established in order to enable the realization of this kind of management information setting.
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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Strategy is about the “how.” A policy may have an implementation strategy behind it. They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world. How do you move toward a desired end, despite limited means and huge obstacles?
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Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies
Chartered Management Institute
APRIL 19, 2023
Making a difference to society through every transaction it makes, the climate emergency is prioritised at the centre of its strategy. With under 100 employees, it is trying to change the financial system to focus on a more sustainable future.
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Listen up, biz leaders: It’s time to rethink everything
First Friday Book Synopsis
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Every company needs to determine if its strategy requires an [.]. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * We’re not living in ordinary economic times.
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8 Advantages of Managed IT Services for Healthcare Clinics
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Plus, they can focus on patient care and develop cost-effective IT strategies. Use the expertise and solutions of an experienced IT consulting firm. By doing so, healthcare clinics can take advantage of focused IT resources. This includes robust security, cost savings, and uptime.
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C-Suite Tip Number 1
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Instead, take the time to think about all of the implications and likely actions that you would want them and their people to tackle in helping the organization execute its strategies. Craft a template for them to use to deliver the message.
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The First Complete Strategy Execution Program (Summarized)
Six Disciplines
OCTOBER 17, 2014
The critical question for every business leader is, “ How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?”. The answer: it takes a complete program. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. Technology (i.e., performance mangement software) alone is not enough.
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How To Lead In The Digital Economy
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 23, 2020
Strategy : Actively aligning business strategy and IT strategy and weaving technology investments together to better seize opportunities. This could entail delivering technology-augmented training that is personalized and experiential for working with technologies of the future.
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Four Things Your Business Should Outsource Now
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Your IT strategy won’t always be the same, and so having the right individual there to help will be the best option for your business to be a success. They can ensure that you have the right software, and that your software is updated as often as it needs to be.
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Types of Organizational Misalignment
Six Disciplines
FEBRUARY 13, 2015
The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. In fact, research has shown that up to 50% of the resources of a typical organization are not being effectively applied to the mission and vision of the company.
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How a Global Brewing Company Explored the Cannabis Market
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2023
How Molson Coors formulated its strategy for entering the cannabis beverages business.
Global Growth Needs a Local Approach
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2023
How Uber adjusted its strategies to meet the specific challenges posed by competitors and regulators in six global markets.
The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution
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.
Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?
The Practical Leader
MAY 29, 2024
Without clear guidance and direction, their activities can drift away from the organization’s overarching vision, values, and purpose, customers/partners, as well as its strategies and priorities. That’s the path to unproductive busy work and self-destructing teams.
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The Two Types of Organizational Misalignment
Six Disciplines
MARCH 21, 2011
The cumulative effects of misalignment are a significant constraint on the ability of an organization to execute its strategy. It's what we describe in detail in Discipline III. Align Systems (see video).
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The Complete Strategy Execution Program
Six Disciplines
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” Or to rephrase the question using the business excellence model, “How can we spend the maximum amount of time in Quadrant II, balancing the right directional choices with the ability to get there.”.
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The Complete Strategy Execution Program
Six Disciplines
MARCH 15, 2013
The critical question for every business leader is, “How do I build an organization that consistently executes its strategy?” Or to rephrase the question using the business excellence model, “How can we spend the maximum amount of time in Quadrant II, balancing the right directional choices with the ability to get there.”.
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87 20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization. This is a transparent way to reiterate the organization’s purpose, its strategy, and culture. That’s why Culture is the strategy for so many success stories such as Google and Amazon.
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177 Guest Blogger Julie Freeman: The Trustworthy Leader
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Leaders need their employees to stay on board during the changes and continue to contribute to its strategy. Many businesses are undergoing enormous transformations, restructuring their business models and reorganizing their employees.
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BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2023
Can BMW convince stakeholders that its strategy is good for the environment and the company’s financial performance?
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