Developing Strategy
Setting Goals to Execute Your Strategy
This webinar discusses how a FAST framework for goal setting can improve strategic alignment.
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With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
Traditional goal setting undermines the alignment, coordination, and agility needed to execute strategy.
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How FAST Are Your Goals?
How good is your company at setting goals? Take our interactive quiz and find out.
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How to Compete Against the New Breed of National Champions
Competing against state-subsidized competitors in global markets requires a new set of tactics.
Developing Strategy
Five Strategies for Getting the Most From AI
This MIT SMR webinar offers strategies for how to get the most out of AI’s potential.
Developing Strategy
Developing a Strategy for Execution
Developing strategy means maintaining a difficult balance between concrete guidance and flexibility.
Developing Strategy
Digital Is About Speed — But It Takes a Long Time
Royal Philips’ experience highlights what it takes to develop a digitally inspired value proposition.
AI & Machine Learning
The Risk of Machine-Learning Bias (and How to Prevent It)
Machine learning is susceptible to unintended biases that require careful planning to avoid.
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When SMART Goals Are Not So Smart
Companies that rigidly adhere to traditional approaches to goal setting may be driving their business in the wrong direction.
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Why Best Practices Often Fall Short
For many leaders, the allure of best practices is strong and their expectations for results are unrealistic.
Developing Strategy
Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.
AI & Machine Learning
Using AI to Help the World Thrive
Microsoft has launched a $50 million initiative to figure out ways to help AI “save the world.”
Developing Strategy
Six Steps to Communicating Strategic Priorities Effectively
Clear, concise strategic priorities backed by metrics have value in communicating with stakeholders.
Business Models
Building Scalable Business Models
Many successful companies today leverage business model scalability to achieve profitable growth.
Developing Strategy
How to Test Your Assumptions
Testing your assumptions in a logical order gives you the chance to make course corrections early.
Collaboration
We Must Rescue ‘Win-Win’ From Its Buzzword Status
Companies often compete as members of networks, making collaboration essential for getting work done.
Developing Strategy
Is the Threat of Digital Disruption Overhyped?
A reader argued that if companies are managed effectively, radical change shouldn’t be necessary.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
What Sets Breakthrough Strategies Apart
Innovative strategies depend more on novel, well-reasoned theories than on well-crunched numbers.
Business Models
Surviving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem
Companies need to reinvent themselves as destinations for their customers.
Developing Strategy
How to Develop Strategy for Execution
Strategy works best if you determine your vision and vulnerabilities, then set business priorities.