Strategy Management
Strategy Management
Measuring Performance to Gain Strategic Business Insights
I am always amazed by some of the answers that I get from managers when I ask them these questions; • Why are you measuring your organization’s performance? • What do you intend to do with the results? Some managers are just measuring performance for the sake of measuring. In such organizations, performance measurement has read more
Strategy Management
4 Barriers Finance Must Overcome To Become Trusted Advisor
This post is based on an excerpt from the book The Performance Manager: Proven Strategies for Turning Information into Higher Business Performance. Various studies have been carried out on the role of the Finance department in creating organizational value with the aim of establishing whether Finance should now be considered a Business Partner. For example read more
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Aligning Performance Management And Conformance
In one survey of global CEOs by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the business advisory firm, executives saw over-regulation as the greatest threat to business growth. Since the dawn of the new millennium, almost every crisis or scandal has led to the introduction of new regulatory requirements. In the early 2000s, after the collapse of Enron, the Sarbanes-Oxley read more
Improving Risk Management, Finance & Operations Alignment
In their book, Surviving And Thriving In Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise
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Product Recalls and Reputation Management
Towards the end and beginning of year 2009 and 2010 respectively, Toyota Motors,
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Embedding Ethics in the Organization’s Strategy and Operations
Defining a business strategy to pursue is often very easy. Implementing a successful
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Protecting Shareholder Value and Corporate Reputation
An organizations’ brand and reputation form part of the most valuable assets that
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6 Reasons Why So Many Business Strategies Fail
So many books with numerous case studies have been published on the subject
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4 Keys To Having An Effective Crisis Management Strategy
Over the past decade or so, we have witnessed a number of organizations
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