Our blog articles about strategy, people, performance, decision making, balanced scorecards and culture change
Here is a way into my blog articles, over 300 of them: It is structured into major topics areas linking to the most articles in each topic area. These cover:
- The Strategy Zone
- Communicating & socialising Strategy: An Executive’s guide
- The Decision Improvement Zone:
- The Culture & Behavioural Change Zone
- The Performance Management Zone: A guide to understanding the management of performance
- Modern Balanced Scorecard Zone
- The 4G Strategic Management Zone
- How we look at our organisations and how we manage: The Paradigm Shift Zone
- Thought provoking articles about how we manage our organisations
Simply scroll down through the various topic areas and articles…
1) Strategy choice, approach and implementation articles: Most recent first
Strategy in uncertainty: what tools are useful?
At an Institute of Director's economic briefing in November, the Chief Economist of the IOD said that we are still facing uncertainty, its just that the uncertainties are changing. I think the uncertainty continues to change, especially with impending elections and...
Rapidly evolving and changing strategy
How do you handle rapidly evolving and changing strategy with a strategic balanced scorecard? We often feel that the environment around us, is changing rapidly. So, we need an approach to strategy planning, communication and implementation that can accommodate a rate...
Integrating rolling and continuous budgeting with your Strategy
Increasingly businesses are aware that traditional, annual budgeting can constrain, as much as it controls and plans. No-one is saying, "Ignore the money". However, it is a tool designed for centralised planning over relatively long and stable periods. The forecast we...
How do I use a Balanced Scorecard in an uncertain environment? (Part 1)
Your balanced scorecard should be helping you in an uncertain economic climate The current environment is an excellent test of your balanced scorecard. Does it still serve you well as the economy changes, with credit tightening, interest rate and exchange rate...
The difference between strategic and operational balanced scorecards?
Are Balanced Scorecard implementations for Strategy Execution and for Performance Management actually two different types of projects and balanced scorecard? Do they actually have different agenda, work flow, stakeholders involved, pitfalls, and require different...
The strategy execution challenge
As an Executive, the strategy execution problem is about getting the ideas and plans that exist in your heads, into the heads of your people so that they get it, change happens, and they execute your strategy. Having worked on your strategy it will now exist in at...
2) Communicating & Socialising Strategy articles: Most recent first
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3) Decision making and decision taking articles: Most recent first
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4) Performance management, various types and perspectives. Most recent articles first
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5) How to achieve Cultural and Behavioural change. Most recent articles first
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5) Modern Balanced Scorecards. Most recent articles first
Choosing KPIs – First determine your “Point of performance”?
If you manage an airline, you will know that your aircraft have to leave and arrive on time, you need efficient check-ins, you want to ensure your planes are full and you want to optimise the income (yield) from each flight. These are each "points of performance". If...
Do Balanced scorecards work for small businesses
There was a recent discussion on LinkedIn where someone suggested that the balanced scorecard was too expensive, complex and too long winded to implement, in small businesses. I disagree, from a perspective of having designed many for small business and not-for profit...
Measuring happiness – Some practical advice for David Cameron’s latest idea
Dear Prime Minister, I understand your point that we should not just think about money, but the idea of measuring the nation's happiness, fills me with woe (and my happiness quotient dropped as a result). Let me explain why I have some concerns about this idea by...
Using shareholder value or return at the top of a strategy map or balanced scorecard
Are you thinking of using shareholder return or shareholder value statements at the top of a strategy map or balanced scorecard. Some organisations want shareholder value at the top Rather than linking their financial objectives to profitability, some organisations...
Why isn’t the financial perspective at the bottom of the strategy map?
This post is about the structure of strategy maps and in particular the financial perspective and objectives. Occasionally I meet someone from finance who wants to put the financial perspective at the bottom. Sometimes they want an additional financial perspective;...
Strategy maps and balanced scorecards need an organisational purpose statement at the top
This post is about the structure of a strategy map and the importance of using a purpose or mission statement at the top to anchor the strategy you are describing. Before we detail the financial perspective we must position the organisation’s purpose or mission...
6) Fourth Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecards and modern methods of management. Most recent articles first
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7) Paradigm shifts that affect our organisations and how we manage.
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7) Thought provokers, designed to make you consider thinking differently about how we manage and our organisations:
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