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Aligning Employee Goals with Organizational Strategy Using a Balanced Scorecard
This whitepaper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the importance, strategies, and implementation of aligning employee goals with organizational strategy using the Balanced Scorecard approach.
Strategy Test Your Organization
Evaluate your organization’s strategy by completing this strategy test.
Navigating Higher Education Strategic Planning Challenges
This article delves into some of the most pressing strategic planning challenges faced by higher ed institutions today and proposes strategies to overcome them.
Discover the Power of Strategy Execution
Are you ready to elevate your strategy execution game and make your organization’s vision a reality? Watch this exclusive webinar for the secrets of successful strategy implementation. Read more
Strategy Management Maturity Deep Dive: Culture and Values
This whitepaper deep dives into the Culture and Values dimension of the Strategic Management Maturity Assessment as well as common culture and values challenges and solutions.
Strategy Management Maturity Deep Dive: Leadership
This whitepaper deep dives into the Leadership dimension of the Strategic Management Maturity Assessment as well as common leadership challenges and solutions.
Balanced Scorecard Essentials Overview
This recorded webinar gives an overview of the one-day interactive Balanced Scorecard Essentials strategy course. Read more
How to Assess Your Strategic Management Maturity
This recorded webinar shows the eight strategic dimensions that will help executives and managers with the ability to improve their strategic management at their organizations. Read more
Introduction to the 1-Page Balanced Strategic Plan
This recorded webinar shows how a 1-page balanced strategic plan can help improve strategy communications. Read more
Measure What Matters to Improve Government Program and Service Effectiveness
This recorded webinar will show you a proven framework and tools for developing performance measures that matter and how a software solution can greatly improve government performance management that can be leveraged during budget formulation Read more
Communicating Your Strategy: An Essential Guide
This whitepaper comprehensively outlines the 12 considerations you need for successful strategy communications planning.
Balanced Strategic Planning and Management for Mission-Driven Organization
This webinar will show why adopting a balanced approach to strategic planning and management, and decision making can improve results, build accountability, energize employees, and improve communications internally and externally to citizens and other stakeholders....
Using Balanced Scorecard with OKRs to Align, Execute and Adapt
This video discusses how to build on the Balanced Scorecard’s strength with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to create a culture of accountability and agility. View the replay
Overcoming Challenges Preventing Strategy Implementation
This video discusses challenges that prevent strategy implementation. View the replay
Improve Government Performance – Measure What Matters
This webinar will show how to develop and use meaningful performance measures for mission driven organizations, including federal agencies, Ministries, state and local government, and nonprofits. View the replay
Continuous Improvement Solutions
Nearly all businesses are motivated to improve customer & stakeholder’s satisfaction. By focusing on Continuous Improvement (CI), an organization can make huge strides in quality and delivery of products and/or services. Read more
BSC-KPI-OKR: The Alphabet of Strategy Management
This webinar will help you understand how mastering these important strategy management tools might be the secret to your organization’s success. View the replay
Using Objectives and Key Results with Balanced Scorecard
BSC, OKRs, KPIs, MBO, SMART – don’t they all do the same thing? If you use one, but fear you are missing out on the benefits of one of the others, learn how to use these frameworks together to strategically align, execute and adapt in this recorded webinar. View the...
Creating Strategic Alignment
This webinar will focus on strategic alignment and how it helps create an organization that is high-performing, agile, and growth-oriented. View the replay
Improving Strategic Performance with BSC and KPIs
This webinar will help you orient yourself with the latest thinking in strategy formulation, performance measurement, and strategy execution. View the replay
What is your “Strategic Management Maturity?”
This webinar will explain the various dimensions of strategic management and why they are important to your organization. You will also learn how to use that information to correct gaps in your strategic management performance. View the replay
Using Dashboards to Bring Strategy to Life
This webinar discusses how to effectively use dashboarding software as part of a performance management review meeting cadence. View the replay
Balanced Scorecard for Government
This informative webinar will focus on how to develop and use the balanced scorecard in mission driven organizations, including federal agencies, ministries, state and local government, and nonprofi View the replay
The Art and Science of Strategy Execution
This webinar discusses the five strategy execution imperatives, challenges and issues standing in the way of successful strategy implementation, and actions you can take to become a more strategy-focused organization. View the replay
How Do You Plan for a Disruption Like THIS?!
This webinar takes the planning stages of our Nine Steps methodology (Steps 1-6) and re-frames them in the context of planning a response to a major disruption. View the replay
Strategic Project Management: Bridging The Gap Between Strategy And Project Management
This webinar discusses how to maximize the alignment between strategy and project management and shows better ways to align your projects to strategy and contribute to your organization’s mission, vision, and strategy discussions. View the replay
Balanced Scorecard: What It Is and Why So Many Organizations Have One
This webinar shows the benefits of improved strategic planning and strategy execution using a Balanced Scorecard and how the system can be used to improve organization performance. View the replay
Using OKRs With Balanced Scorecard
By David WilseyThis whitepaper will help you better understand OKRs (objectives and key results), the benefits and pitfalls of OKRs and how to use OKRs with the balanced scorecard. Read more
Strategy Essentials for Project Managers
This webinar highlights the benefits of linking strategy and project management and discusses what strategy is and why it is important, how strategy and project management can be aligned to improve an organization’s results, and how project managers can benefit from...
Strategy + Innovation
This webinar will provide valuable insights about these timely topics of performance management. View the replay
Build Your Organization’s Strategic Project Management Capability
This webinar explores strategic project management and how aligning your project management efforts with strategy can help your organization achieve its strategic goals. View the replay
Top 5 Secrets to Build Strategy Alignment
This webinar reveals the top 5 secrets that can help your organization become strategically aligned. View the replay
9 Things We Wish We Had Known About KPIs
This recorded webinar shares 9 things the presenters wish they had understood about KPIs from the very beginning, instead of learning them thru mistakes, hard experience, and untangling KPI messes at numerous clients.
Is There Any Strategy in Your Company’s Strategic Plan?
By Howard RohmThis article discusses how a company can organize the strategic thinking and planning process and shares a few techniques to help you start a strategy focused journey.
What Makes Strategic Planning “Strategic?”
By Tim JohnsonGiven that most organizations today perform some level of strategic planning, the real question becomes, “How do we put the strategy back into strategic planning?” This whitepaper discusses five steps to take during a strategic planning effort.
Strategic Management for State and Local Government
By Howard RohmFind out how agencies can improve performance and service with a modern strategic management approach in this Q&A.
A Peek Behind the Curtain: How Do Successful Companies Innovate?
Featured in Texas CEO magazine. Reposted with Permission. By Gail Stout PerryThe topic of innovation can be daunting, filled with vague terminology and mysterious processes. How does an organization innovate? How does one create a culture of innovation? And how does...
The Road To ERM: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Implement Enterprise Risk Management.
Originally Appeared in Public Risk, by the Public Risk Management Association. Reposted with Permission. By Elizabeth CooperThe balanced scorecard provides a structure that may help public risk managers travel down the path to ERM with fewer bumps and maybe just a...
It’s All Connected: From Innovation to Mission/Vision
Presented by Gail Stout PerryLearn how municipal governments are using a single solution – the balanced scorecard framework – to not only successfully deal with seemingly disconnected top issues, priorities and concerns, but to also achieve award -winning results....
Align the Organization: People, Purpose & Performance
By Howard Rohm & David JaliliTrue alignment occurs when an organization’s strategy is turned into action at the business and support unit level, and then into action at the employee level for individual employees and teams of employees.
A Kite with a Broken String – The Balanced Scorecard
By Gary CokinsHow do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they look at is financial results? Any strategic measurement system that fails to start with a strategy map and/or reports measures in isolation is like a kite without a string. There...
Measuring Strategy Execution
This webinar will provide the knowledge and insight to understand how KPIs can help drive organizational results and aid decision-making. View the replay
The Top 8 Strategic Management Horror Stories and How to Avoid Them
This fun and informative webinar featuring a countdown of the top 8 reasons scorecards fail. This free webinar is based on true, bone-chilling stories and will include a discussion of root causes as well as methods for preventing or overcoming similar challenges in...
Customer Value Proposition –The Basis of an Organization’s Strategy
By Peter NdaaA common challenge for organizations is knowing when and how to shift the emphasis of their value proposition at different stages of their product or industry life cycles. Successful organizations consciously factor the need to adapt their strategy over...
Strategic Themes – How Are They Used and WHY?
By Gail Stout PerryStrategic Themes are essential elements that form the foundation for a balanced scorecard. However, once the scorecard is built, the fundamental role they play is not always clear to the naked eye.
Themes of Confusion
By David WilseyMany practitioners find it difficult to teach their employees what a strategic theme is. Read this article to see how gorillas and Phil Collins can help.
Build Innovation Into Your Strategy
By Dan Montgomery & Gail Stout PerryInnovation can include both paradigm-busting breakthroughs and incremental improvements in existing products or services. Read more to see how an organization can articulate, align, and communicate how innovation fits into its...
Evaluation of a BSC System and its Implementation
We are often approached by organizations that have implemented a balanced scorecard system but are not achieving the results they desire. Once your scorecard is built and implemented, how do you ensure its ongoing health and effectiveness?
How to Measure Innovation
By Mark Malinoski & Gail Stout PerryThis article addresses how to measure difficult concepts such as innovation.
The Ultimate Balanced Scorecard Sports Metaphor
By David WilseySo exactly how is the balanced scorecard like Joe Montana throwing to Dwight Clark to win the Super Bowl?
Strategy is Culture: The Inseparable Duo of Organizational Success
This blog discusses how an organization’s strategic direction is not merely influenced by its culture; rather, it is a direct manifestation of it. The two elements are inseparable and mutually reinforcing, acting as powerful forces that drive long-term success.
Your Strategy Sounds Like AI
This blog explores the impact of generative AI on strategic planning communication and offers insights on fostering meaningful discussions to drive real organizational change.
The Leadership Gap: Understanding Strategy Execution Failure
This blog explores the common reasons why strategy execution often fails, including leadership gaps, internal focus, and lack of accountability, and highlights how the Strategy Management Group’s approach can empower leaders to overcome these challenges and successfully implement their strategic plans.
Bridging the Work-Life Balance Gap: Aligning Employee and Employer Expectations in 2024 and Beyond
This blog explores the differences in Work-life balance expectations between employees and employers, offering insights from both perspectives and suggesting solutions to bridge the gap for a more productive and engaging work environment.
The Executive’s Dilemma
Many organizations struggle to achieve desired outcomes despite implementing advanced tools, methodologies, and technologies. This blog post explores why these efforts often fall short and proposes a solution using a Balanced Scorecard approach. It outlines how this framework can align strategy with execution, integrate existing tools, and drive meaningful results across the organization.
Unlocking the Power of OKRs for HR and Personal Performance
By adopting OKRs, HR can align people strategies with business objectives, demonstrating tangible impact in areas such as talent acquisition, employee engagement, and learning and development. Individuals can also use OKRs to drive personal growth and achievement by setting objectives that align with their values, stretch their abilities, and contribute to organizational goals.
Tips for Successful Strategy Execution: Learning from Microsoft
This blog illustrates how Microsoft’s strategic pivot to cloud computing under Satya Nadella’s leadership, exemplified by clear objectives, optimized resource allocation, and agile execution, transformed the company and cemented its long-term success in the technology sector.
Leadership Mindset and Strategic Planning: A Synergistic Approach
The blog explores the vital connection between developing a leadership mindset and strategic planning for organizational success.
What is Your Business’ AI Maturity Score?
This blog provides an overview of understanding Business AI Maturity and provides a scale for readers to rate their organization.
How to Avoid the Lazy Presentation Trap
Lazy data visualization and presentation is a tempting but risky practice. By investing time, effort, and skill into crafting meaningful visuals, you can unlock the full potential of our data and drive better decision-making. Or at least avoid being mocked at your next conference presentation.