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A New Framework (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteArticle HBS-R1206BStrategyRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But rules-based risk management will not diminish either the likelihood or the impact of a disaster such as Deepwater Horizon, just as it did not prevent the failure of many financial institut...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7678BC-EStrategyIn spite of increased adoption of strategy execution systems in recent years, strategy development and the links between strategy and operations remain ad hoc, varied, and fragmented. Having a comprehensive and integrated management system-with the Balanced Scorecard at its core-can help companies overcome the difficulties and frustration that most of them experience when attempting to implement their strategies. This chapter is excerpted from "...Starting at €8.20
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Plan the Strategy: Aligning the Organization for Effective Strategy Execution
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7686BC-EStrategyThe process of planning an organization's strategy converts statements of strategic direction into specific objectives, measures, targets, initiatives, and budgets that guide action and align the organization for effective strategy execution. This chapter addresses the translation of the strategy into a strategy map, built around strategic themes, and an associated Balanced Scorecard of measures and targets for each of the map's strategic objecti...Starting at €8.20
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Aligning Organizational Units and Employees: A Critical Step in the Strategy Execution Process
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7688BC-EStrategyA truly effective management system for aligning business unit strategy with operations must address how strategy is integrated across diverse organizational units, and how to align employees with the strategy. This chapter describes the best practices companies use to align business units, support units, and employees to strategy. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Starting at €8.20
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Plan Operations: Align Process Improvement Programs
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7690BC-EStrategyPerformance that depends on the power of individual leaders has generally proven unsustainable over the long term. Unless an organization links its strategy to its governance and operational processes, it won't be able to sustain its successes. This chapter discusses the linkage of strategy to process improvements. This chapter is excerpted from "Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage."Starting at €8.20
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Operational and Strategy Review Meetings: Keeping the Organization on a Strategic Trajectory for Breakthrough Performance
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7691BC-EStrategyWith strategy and operational plans in place, the enterprise embarks on executing the strategy: producing and delivering products and services to customers, implementing initiatives, and improving processes. However, like mission control after a spaceship has been launched, the enterprise needs to continually monitor and adjust its performance to achieve strategic objectives. Managers guide the enterprise by holding a structured set of meetings t...Starting at €8.20
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Change Management in Coaching
Larburu A.; Poelmans, StevenTechnical Note DPON-68-ELeadership and People ManagementOne of the key skills in successful coaching is change management in third parties. Managing the changes affecting the coached party is the essential content or objective of the process: the coached party's change and learning process. To this end, we will work on the management of: 1) the real context (the day-to-day environment of the coached party, i.e., action); 2) the mental context (the perceptions the coached party constructs, based on rea...Starting at €8.20
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The Action Orientation of the Coach
Larburu A.; Poelmans, StevenTechnical Note DPON-69-ELeadership and People ManagementAgroinnovation is a European business that is part of a worldwide group that is the market leader in seed and plant protection and which produces products essential in modern agriculture. In recent years there have been two important changes: the use of new technologies in the client interface (B2B) and the move to an open-plan office. Technological change has simplified and streamlined many of our systems. They open new ways of offering services...Starting at €8.20
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Communication in Coaching
Larburu A.; Poelmans, StevenTechnical Note DPON-67-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen implementing a process, a coach uses many different tools. However, all the techniques, theories and processes the coach applies have one thing in common: communication. Communication is a fundamental skill in coaching. The aim of this note is therefore to delve into the communication process and the variables involved in communication, and to review the different communication techniques in the different phases of the coaching process: unde...Starting at €8.20
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Group Decision Making
Sahibzada, Khatera; Stepanova, Olena; Poelmans, StevenTechnical Note DPON-44-ELeadership and People ManagementThe aim of group decision making is ultimately to develop and manage a successful and profitable organization. One way of doing so is to be aware of the processes and dynamics that occur in group decision making. Organizational teams need to fully understand and take into consideration all factors, individual, organizational, and cultural, in order to strategize the best approach to a decision. By adopting a systems approach, they can develop a ...Starting at €8.20