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Why Strategic Planning Fails – Part 1
The first pitfall has to do with not gaining Senior Leadership support before you begin the effort.
Which Tax Change Means Reassessing YOUR Strategy?
If your organization wants to avoid a similar failure, it is critical that you periodically evaluate the strategic environment that you work in and make sure that your strategy is not based on similarly invalid assumptions.
Obfuscating Objectives
Get strategic objectives and your strategy map right and your balanced strategic plan and strategy story will come alive quickly and clearly.
Strategic Planning in the Healthcare Industry
Over the last 10 years we have seen a tremendous change in the healthcare industry. Whether it is a shift in philosophy to focus on more value-based care or navigating the impact of implementing the Affordable Care Act here in the United States, significant shifts...
Why “World Class” Performance Isn’t Measurable
Let’s say our organization needs to buy a fleet of vehicles and we have two procurement teams. We tell team 1 that we want quiet, blue, four-door, fuel-efficient cars. We tell team 2 that we want world-class, high-quality, great-value, high-performing...
Types of KPIs: The Logic Model and Beyond
As part of the KPI Basics series of content we are developing as part of the launch of the KPI.org website, I thought I would introduce the different types of key performance indicators (KPIs). As I describe in the accompanying video, like to use a...