Strategy execution

In a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap.

Everyone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,...

How some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul.

It assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop.

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.

The next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,...

Despite the widely accepted ideal of "shared value," research led by Harvard Business School's Kasturi Rangan suggests that this is not the norm--and...

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

Next-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain,...

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. This matrix can help you determine the best option for your organization.

What makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t?

When a company finds itself unable to execute strategy, all too often the first reaction is to redraw the organization chart or tinker with incentives....

When it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility"...

They're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing...

The top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently.

When business conditions change, the most successful companies are often the slowest to adapt. To avoid being left behind, executives must understand the true sources of corporate inertia.

A second generation of electronic commerce is emerging, one that will be shaped more by strategy than by experimentation. The battle for competitive advantage will be waged along three dimensions: reach, affiliation, and richness.

One of the unfortunate tendencies in the business idea biz is that people who are strong proponents of a particular idea tend to criticize other ones....

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

Disclosure: The author is a shareholder in AOL. It's been funny watching the financial press and the tech community eviscerate AOL's Patch.com since last...