The One-Page Strategic Plan
Does your strategic plan sit on a shelf gathering dust? If it’s full of abstract goals, vague strategies and useless key performance indicators (KPIs), then I bet it does!
Handling Redundancy
A step-by-step guide to assist employers when handling redundancy.
Getting Your Strategy Off The Shelf And Into Action
Companies that perform at their best are those that have the right combination of great operations and great strategies.
Seven Insights To Give Your Strategic Initiatives A Winning Chance
Launching a strategic initiative as if it was just more of the same, without building an execution culture, is bound to fail. These seven insights are the building blocks of an execution culture. They are everyday practices, rooted in deep beliefs about the respect owed to fellow human beings.
Developing An Action Plan
Your action plan should be the pathway to helping you achieve your goals and objectives in each area of your marketing plan.
Checklist Of 12 Basic Steps To Help Your Business Grow
The article 'Business Plan Preparation' enabled you to gain a thorough understanding of your business and the direction it should be taking. In this article we outline 12 steps to action this understanding.
Business Strategy Execution
Four reasons why your company's strategy isn't working.
Strategy Management And The Balanced Scorecard
The need for an emerging discipline of strategic management.
Do You Know Where You Are Going? - Do The People Who Matter Know?
Effective planning should be carried out systematically, documented and, very importantly, communicated to those involved in delivering it. This is usually most employees. Ironically, even when planning gets beyond being just thought about, it often fails in the implementation - when the people get involved.
Three Reasons Why Good Strategies Fail: Execution, Execution...
From Vivendi to Webvan, the shortcomings of a bad strategy are usually painfully obvious - at least in retrospect. But good strategies fail too, and when that happens, it's often harder to pinpoint the reasons. Yet despite the obvious importance of good planning and execution, relatively few management thinkers have focused on what kinds of processes and leadership are best for turning a strategy into results.
Successful Project Execution - A Users' Guide
From an etymological perspective,“execution” refers to following up on a decision, or transforming an idea into reality. Up to that point, ideas are only dreams. From then on, they become reality, with consequences. The results are up to us.