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Author |
: Robert S. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1578512506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781578512508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Strategy-focused Organization by : Robert S. Kaplan
A Powerful New Approach to Performance Management from the Creators of the Balanced Scorecard In Today's business environment, strategy has never been more important. Yet research shows that most companies fail to execute strategy successfully. Behind this abysmal track record lies an undeniable fact: many companies continue to use management processes-top-down, financially driven, and tactical-that were designed to run yesterday's organizations. Now, the creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of ten years of learning and research into more than 200 companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard. Drawing from more than twenty in-depth case studies-including Mobil, CIGNA, Nova Scotia Power, and AT and T Canada-Kaplan and Norton illustrate how Balanced Scorecard adopters have taken their ground-breaking tool to the next level. These organizations have used the scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of key management processes and systems. Kaplan and Norton articulate the five key principles required for building Strategy-Focused Organizations: (1) translate the strategy to operational terms, (2) align the organization to the strategy, (3) make strategy everyone's everyday job, (4) make strategy a continual process, and (5) mobilize change through strong, effective leadership. The authors provide a detailed account of how a range of organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors have deployed these principles to achieve breakthrough, sustainable performance improvements. Presenting a practical, proven framework steeped in rich case study experience, The Strategy-Focused Organization helps solve a universal management problem-not just how to formulate strategy, but how to make it work. Building on one of the most revolutionary business ideas of our time, this important book shows how today's leaders can shape their own companies to meet the challenges and reap the rewards of a new competitive era.
Author |
: Mr Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez |
Publisher |
: Gower Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2012-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409459361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409459365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Focused Organization by : Mr Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows you how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. Using his own research and work experience he explains how and why those organizations that focus on just a few key initiatives can perform significantly better than unfocused organizations, not only financially but also in achieving their strategic objectives and motivating their staff. The author introduces a new way of looking at a company through two very different and often conflicting dimensions: running-the-business and changing-the-business. What you add to one dimension you have to subtract from the other one. Finding the right balance between these two dimensions represents one of the major challenges to successful strategy execution. Becoming a focused organization involves a radical change in the way companies are organized and the way they select and manage projects - the creation of a new culture. The Focused Organization discusses the characteristics that comprise a focused organization. It describes key areas where a focused organization builds its levels of maturity; provides examples of focused organizations that outperform the rest; and explains in practical steps how all enterprises can become focused. The book finishes with a unique and inspiring case study that transports us to the early days of the current business world. Through the main character, Benny White, we learn how a business was conducted and how management evolved over decades with the introduction of business theories, including project management.
Author |
: Robert S. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1591391342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781591391340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategy Maps by : Robert S. Kaplan
The authors of "The Balanced Scorecard" and "The Strategy-Focused Organization" present a blueprint any organization can follow to align processes, people, and information technology for superior performance.
Author |
: Robert S. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781591396901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1591396905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alignment by : Robert S. Kaplan
How to align all organisational units to the organisational strategy. Amplifies the ideas in the Balanced Scorecord and Strategy Maps.
Author |
: Robert S. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 1996-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781422148167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1422148165 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Balanced Scorecard by : Robert S. Kaplan
The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. In the first part, Kaplan and Norton provide the theoretical foundations for the Balanced Scorecard; in the second part, they describe the steps organizations must take to build their own Scorecards; and, finally, they discuss how the Balanced Scorecard can be used as a driver of change.
Author |
: Robert S. Kaplan |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2008-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781422163634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1422163636 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Execution Premium by : Robert S. Kaplan
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert Kaplan and David Norton in The Execution Premium. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows you how to: Develop an effective strategy--with tools such as SWOT analysis, vision formulation, and strategic change agendas Plan execution of the strategy--through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards Put your strategy into action--by integrating operational tools such as process dashboards, rolling forecasts, and activity-based costing Test and update your strategy--using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data Drawing on extensive research and detailed case studies from a broad array of industries, The Execution Premium presents a systematic and proven framework for achieving the financial results promised by your strategy.
Author |
: Hubert K. Rampersad |
Publisher |
: IAP |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 2006-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781607525707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1607525704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Personal Balanced Scorecard by : Hubert K. Rampersad
The Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC) is a journey into the inner self, where values, hopes, dreams and aspirations lie quietly waiting to be discovered. Taking the journey as an individual allows you to view your life objectively and authentically as a whole person and provides a roadmap of your dreams and aspirations translated into manageable and measurable milestones. As a part of the Total Performance Scorecard (TPS) process which I introduced in 2003 in Total Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity, and which has been translated into more than 20 languages, the Personal Balanced Scorecard can also be an effective way for managers to coach others to achieve integrity and alignment between work and life. The benefit comes from changing individual behavior in order to drive organizational effectiveness, enhance performance, and increase self-awareness, personal responsibility and motivation. PBSC is an integral part of this organic and holistic Total Performance Scorecard process, which is an organizational and cultural change tool and a method for ongoing effectiveness. Its uniqueness lies in aligning and a combination of Personal and Organizational goals to result in Individual Performance Plans for each employee. The focus of this book is the PBSC portion, which comprises a search for self-knowledge, self-discovery and self-mastery.
Author |
: Richard Rumelt |
Publisher |
: Currency |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2011-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307886231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307886239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Good Strategy Bad Strategy by : Richard Rumelt
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Author |
: Travis Lowdermilk |
Publisher |
: O'Reilly Media |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2020-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781492058687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1492058688 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Customer-Driven Culture: A Microsoft Story by : Travis Lowdermilk
If you’re striving to make products and services that your customers will love, then you’ll need a customer-driven organization. As companies transform their businesses to meet the demands of the digital age, they find themselves grappling with uniquely human challenges. Organizational knowledge becomes siloed, employees move to safeguard their expertise, and customer data creates polarization and infighting between teams. All of these challenges widen the distance between the people who make your products and the customers who use them. To meet today’s challenges, companies need to do more than build processes for customer-driven products. They need to create a customer-driven culture. With the help of his friend and mentor Monty Hammontree, Travis Lowdermilk takes readers through the cultural transformation of the Developer Division at Microsoft. This book shows readers how to "hack" their culture and reduce the distance between them and their customers’ needs. It’s a uniquely personal story that’s told amidst a cultural revolution at one of the largest software companies in the world. This story acts as your guide. You’ll learn how to: Establish a Common Language: Help employees change their thinking and actions Build Bridges, Not Walls: Treat product building as a team sport Encourage Learning Versus Knowing: Help your team understand their customers Build Leaders That Build Your Culture: Showcase star employees to inspire others Meet Teams Where They Are: Make it easy for teams to to adopt vital behavior changes Make Data Relatable: Move beyond numbers and focus on empathizing with customers
Author |
: Alan G. Lafley |
Publisher |
: Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781422187395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142218739X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Playing to Win by : Alan G. Lafley
Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.