Strategy execution

Every day, at almost every company, strategy is being hijacked by numbers. Because strategy is abstract, employees often mentally replace it with the...

Asking the question, "What makes a great COO?" is akin to asking "What makes a great candidate for U.S. vice-president?" It all depends on the first name...

Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,...

A process for getting the right people aligned.

Continuous improvement programs are proliferating as corporations seek to better themselves and gain an edge. Unfortunately, however, failed programs...

In an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided...

They’re goals.

Most companies don't have the answers.

Strategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy.

Only 8% of leaders do it.

Everyone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation...

Research shows that enterprises fail at execution because they go straight to structural reorganization and neglect the most powerful drivers of effectiveness—decision rights and information flow.

What are my goals? Do I have the right strategy? Can I execute the strategy?

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

They're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing...

One of the most common business phenomena is also one of the most perplexing: when successful companies face big changes, they often fail to respond effectively....

Of all the meetings top executives attend in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the...

Companies routinely squander their most precious resource--the time of their top executives. In the typical company, senior executives meet to discuss...

Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise and the actual behavior of the managers...

How to deal with initiative overload

Based on a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United States in 2013. Experts estimated that the company...

Bring strategy into your daily work. It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching...

Under Jack Rivkin's leadership, Shearson Lehman's research department rose from relative obscurity to the highest ranking research department on Wall...

BE CONFIDENT IN YOUR STRATEGY SUCCESS. Strategy work can be a frustrating, stressful process that doesn't always lead to actionable results. This time...

GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch...

In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management...

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Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategy development, with little to show for your efforts? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard...

Bring strategy into your daily work. It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the objectives...

Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's...

In 2017 Edward Jones, the largest brokerage firm in the US is deciding whether and how to implement a new "solutions" business model to replace its traditional...

The first ten pages of the case 'Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King' are comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are...

Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach...

Reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices...

How Strategy Works in an Interconnected, Automated World. Leaders already know that the classic approach to strategy--analyze, plan, execute--is losing...

In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised...

With 195,000 employees, operations in 45 countries, and $55 billion in annual revenues, Disney is the largest media and entertainment company in the world....

Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of...

Two months after a successful launch In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether...

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