Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan calls “fighting fires.”
A new book by Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational principles into a more effective management system that respects the differences between strategy and operations yet integrates them in a powerful way. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a performance measurement system, in 1992. The Execution Premium is their fifth book as coauthors.
Kaplan recently explained the ideas behind The Execution Premium and how they bridge the common divide between strategy and operations.
Author: Robert S. Kaplan
Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge
Subject: Strategy
- A Kite with a Broken String – The Balanced Scorecard
[Archive.org URL] - A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-focused Organizations, Part I [Archive.org URL]
- Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies [Archive.org URL]
- Andy Neely (Guru Interview) [Archive.org URL]
- Balanced Scorecard and Sustainability [Archive.org URL]
- Designing a Strategy Implementation Monitoring System [Archive.org URL]
- Fitting the Balanced Scorecard Into BPM [Archive.org URL]
- Five Distinct Views of Scorecards – and Their Implications [Archive.org URL]
- Frank Buytendijk [Archive.org URL]
- Gary Cokins [Archive.org URL]
- Jay Freeman [Archive.org URL]
- Keeping Your Balance With Customers [Archive.org URL]
- Management Tools & Techniques [Archive.org URL]
- Managing Complexity [Archive.org URL]
- Managing the Alignment Process [Archive.org URL]
- Measuring Up [Archive.org URL]
- Moving Strategy Forward: Merging the Balanced Scorecard and Business Intelligence [Archive.org URL]
- Non-Requisite Organization: The Fallout from Using the “Balanced” Scorecard [Archive.org URL]
- Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard [Archive.org URL]
- Putting the Scorecard to Work, Part One [Archive.org URL]
- Putting the Scorecard to Work, Part Two [Archive.org URL]
- RAVE™: Integrated Value Management for Customer, Human Supplier and Invested Capital [Archive.org URL]
- Success x 2 [Archive.org URL]
- Sustainability management With the Balanced Scorecard [Archive.org URL]
- The 5 Simple Steps to Building an Award-Winning Balanced Scorecard [Archive.org URL]
- The Balanced Scorecard and Corporate Social Responsibility: Aligning Values for Profit [Archive.org URL]
- The Performance Management System: Turning Strategies into Results [Archive.org URL]
- The Role of Finance in the Strategic-Planning and Decision-Making Process [Archive.org URL]
- What Are the Measures That Matter? [Archive.org URL]
- Why Most Balanced Scorecards are Subverted [Archive.org URL]
- Zen and the Art of the Balanced Scorecard [Archive.org URL]
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