Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

July 27

Transparency in a social media age

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Internet access provides consumers with endless amounts of information at their fingertips – it’s all a search and a click away. And since this information has become available, we have become much smarter consumers. We care more about what’s in our food, what effect our actions have on the environment and so on. If a [...]

May 15

Executing strategic initiatives

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Only 30 percent of strategic initiatives are successfully executed. Of those that are, most CEOs view the process as too slow. Start by understanding the barriers to execution: Employees don’t grasp where an initiative is going. They don’t adopt new behaviors. They’re not committed to working together to achieve results. Most leaders try to speed [...]

July 17

How to ensure strategy involvement

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To ensure that the vision, mission, strategy and values are implemented it is important to involve the organization in the process. A way of doing it is to arrange workshops: What do I do to make the vision, mission, strategy and values more relevant to my employees? What do the vision, mission, strategy and values [...]