Executing Strategy — Keeping Your Plan Alive
So you say you want a living, breathing plan? The key to making this a reality is simply checking your progress periodically and making changes to the strategy when needed. Set your planning schedule...
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How to put your money where your strategy is (1 min)
Are you one of the companies that allocates the same resources to the same business units year after year? If you are, you may be making it difficult to to realize your strategic goals. Learn the...
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How do you find the time for strategy? (4 mins)
The day-to-day demands of running an organization can make it challenging to set aside time for thinking about long-term strategy. Simply avoiding strategy can make your organization vulnerable to...
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Strategy Course: Execution, Execution, Execution
Execution, Execution, Execution Course: So you have a plan, now what? Effective execution is the name of the game. With most organizations needing to drive results with less resources, successfully...
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Execute 2014 Plans Easier with Our Cloud Makeover
Inspiration for greatness comes from improving customers’ lives. For us at OnStrategy, that usually means pulling the complexity out of strategic planning, offering crystallized paths forward and...
View ArticleSleek, Flashy & Worthless: Demand More from Dashboards
When on a journey, getting from ‘here’ to ‘there’ requires orientation. In our work, we interact with many organizations that also want to become more data-centric to guide better decisions, better...
View ArticleWhat Are the Most Popular Management Tools Globally?
A global survey concluded that these five management tools were used most often in 2013: Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Employee Engagement Surveys, Benchmarking and Balanced...
View ArticleUncovering A Horrible Strategic Plan
Clichés often have an original meaning that is powerful because the saying has been found to be deeply true. Yet, many times these sayings get diluted and misused so much that the words no longer have...
View ArticleIs Your Strategy Surviving or Thriving?
It’s a new quarter, and chances are there is something about your strategic plan that needs to be addressed. All master forms of diligence aside, strategic planning is not a sure bet into the future....
View ArticleStrategy High – Yeah, it’s a real thing.
It’s the 20th mile in the marathon. You’re bruised, beaten, and blistered, yet you continue moving forward. Why? The feeling of crossing that finish line is like nothing else. Closing the gap between...
View ArticleGetting Inked by Inc.com
Creating and executing a strategic plan isn’t always easy. Nor is it always fun. But remaining dedicated and motivated to the process allows you to see the light at the end of the tunnel. That light is...
View ArticleExecuting Strategy — Keeping Your Plan Alive
So you say you want a living, breathing plan? The key to making this a reality is simply checking your progress periodically and making changes to the strategy when needed. Set your planning schedule...
View Article4 Tips to Keep Your Strategy From Becoming a New Year’s Cliché
New year, old clichés. This year, I’m going to [insert resolution]. Whether your organization is starting a new strategic plan or is executing against a rolling one, it’s important to not let them fall...
View Article5 Questions to Evaluate Your Implementation Strategy
How solid is your foundation for implementing strategy? Implementation is the process that turns strategies and plans into actions in order to accomplish strategic objectives and goals. Implementing...
View Article5 Traps of Personal Productivity Management
Performance management is a hot button. Everyone wants in on the trade secrets and shortcuts to making their teams more efficient and increasing organizational productivity. But, what most people...
View Article3 Reasons You’ll Fail Without a Q1 Strategy Review
It’s the end of the first quarter. As a football coach, would you skip a huddle with your team? Probably not. So, then why are you skipping a quarter-end huddle with your organizational team? Strategy...
View ArticleYour strategy is a hypothesis. Use a mid-year review to test its accuracy.
Your strategy is a hypothesis. It’s your team’s best guess as to what will yield long-term success. So far this year, you’ve been implementing a strategy with a supporting set of coordinated actions in...
View ArticleIt’s Already October – Use These Tips to Jumpstart 2018 Planning
The seasons have changed and the number of days left in 2017 are dwindling away. Being mid-October already, now is the time to jumpstart your organization’s 2018 planning process to start the new year...
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2018 Planning Part 4/4: Executing Your Plan & Managing Performance
After completing part 3 in this newsletter series, you should have a complete plan. With a complete strategic plan, everything should be smooth sailing, right? Well, not always. One of the hardest...
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5 Reasons Your Team Might Resist Strategic Planning & Change
As many organizations cycle through the planning and execution process for the new year, it’s not uncommon for leaders to face resistance from their team or organization during the process. Resistance...
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