Strategic analysis

What you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […]

Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,...

What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

America, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism, now appears to be obsessed by "declinism"--the idea that something is fundamentally...

Measuring the value of intangible assets such as company culture, knowledge management systems, and employees' skills is the holy grail of accounting....

The key to executing your strategy is to have people in your organization understand it—including the crucial but perplexing processes by which intangible assets will be converted into tangible outcomes. Strategy maps can help chart this difficult terrain.

Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship...

Why is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,...

Frank Cespedes, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, on how to connect what your people sell with your business goals.

Building a scorecard can help managers link today’s actions with tomorrow’s goals.

For years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although...

When you're innovating for your business, create a "plan to learn" that tests assumptions.

Think about consumers' jobs-to-be-done.

Want your business case to be supported? Get attention by telling a good story.

You can’t make big organizational changes without understanding how employees behave.

The U.S. defense industry has seen more than 50% of its market disappear, and the companies that make up the industry have faced the need for the equivalent...

Results from an experiment that pitted a team of MBAs against MBAs plus AI.

Effective performance measurement systems articulate strategic objectives, enabling leaders at all levels to make critical decisions.

Structure follows strategy; and systems support structure. In the high-growth environment of post-World War II, a management doctrine rose up around these...