How to Avoid Strategy Myopia
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Stop prioritizing the urgent, the proven, and the easily measured, and focus instead on the long term.
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Strategic Planning: How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MAY 12, 2021
When strategic planning, a SWOT helps you define your business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A useful tool you can use to assess the environment you’re competing in is called the SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. And typically, it’s drawn on a grid.
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Course Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy
Xebia
APRIL 3, 2023
architecture #enterprisearchitecture #masterofscience Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy Enterprise Architecture as a topic is evolving and gaining in interest at various organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. To get here, we first need to zoom in into what is strategy. The strategy of you.
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Strategic planning must change with the times
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2016
If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times.
How to Hire an Effective Chief Marketing Officer
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
They align marketing strategies with the company’s vision, maintain the brand’s image, and build crucial relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Their role now blends strategic decision-making with a deep understanding of market dynamics. Innovative Problem-Solving: How have you handled marketing challenges or crises?
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How to Link Your Goals to Your Strategy
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
MARCH 17, 2021
Your strategy is going to help drive that. The strategy consists of a desired future state and definition of how you’re going to get there. You should break that strategy down into smaller, interim goals on that path. How to Tie Your Goals to the Broader Mission How do you do that?
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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. The Danger of Focusing Only on Strategy. Strategic Questions to Help you Avoid Getting “Lost”.
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How to succeed as a fractional CIO
CIO
APRIL 18, 2023
A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What does a fractional CIO do?
Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key
CIO
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Leveraging sustainable architecture principles and practices, organizations can link enterprise business and technology strategies with ESG principles that have the potential to unlock new opportunities for innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage while aligning to a strong mission statement regarding improving societal impacts on the earth.
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How to Future-Proof Your Strategy
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 5, 2024
Understand which investments will allow your organization to thrive—even in a crisis.
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Making technology a company capability at Foot Locker
CIO
OCTOBER 16, 2024
For Adrian Butler, who has been CTO of the $8 billion global business for about two years, the key is to focus on the data that matters most, and to help the entire business understand how to use its data to inform decisions and better serve customers. What’s been your approach to developing a data strategy?
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How to Integrate an Interim Executive into Your Team for Maximum Impact
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
With their rich experience and dynamic approach, interim executives help companies tackle pressing challenges and rejuvenate their strategy. A well-executed plan ensures the interim executive can hit the ground running, drive meaningful change, and contribute to long-term success from day one. Contact a partner today to learn more.
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CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role
CIO
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage. Focus on transformation.
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Building a better future: The enterprise architect’s role in leading organizational transformation
CIO
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
The shifting leadership landscape In a fast-paced, tech-driven world, business strategy and technology are more intertwined than ever. One that integrates business strategy with deep technical knowledge. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology.
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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders
CIO
JULY 25, 2024
The certification covers business frameworks, IT frameworks, software, database management, information systems, corporate IT strategy, corporate governance, risk, finance, and management of technology personnel. This includes developing and maintaining cyber security programs, business analysis, strategic planning, and management tools.
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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO
CIO
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts.
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When and How to Review Your Growth Strategy
Altexsoft
JULY 5, 2022
Planning your growth strategy isn’t finished once you’ve left the meeting. If you want your business to succeed, you need to review your strategy and make sure it’s all staying on track. Exactly how often you should be doing these reviews gets a similar answer to so many questions in business: it depends.
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How to Say No at Work: Powerful Phrases to Stand Your Ground
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
“Yes, my team can do that for you,” might mean, “I’m going to have to postpone our team’s strategic planning offsite. ” How to Say No at Work. For example, “Yes, it sounds like this project would benefit our marketing strategy. How Do I Deal with a Manipulative Boss?
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How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities
N2Growth Blog
MAY 3, 2017
Once a solid profile is established, it can be used to inform the strategic planning processes used to build a winning strategic plan. Assess your company across these 4 capability dimensions presented below to determine the best strategies for your firm: Managerial. Pricing Options: What is the pricing strategy?
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How Mapfre gets cloud to coexist with its tech model ambitions
CIO
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
And in charge of the group’s technological strategy and digitalization processes is global CIO Vanessa Escrivá. And in what state is the execution of this strategic plan? This year is when the plan begins to extend to these territories. The third pillar of our strategy is data.
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Lessons in Climate Change Strategy from the U.S. Navy
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Learn how to balance mitigation activities in the shorter term with long-term investments that will help your organization adapt to future changes.
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A Tale of Two CIO Priorities: It’s the Best Security for IT Infrastructure, It’s the Worst for Cyber Criminals
CIO
AUGUST 2, 2022
This is a radical change that is redefining strategic planning and purchasing of enterprise storage solutions. Yet, in 2022, the first three conversations are laser-focused on cybersecurity and how storage is a critical element of an overall corporate cybersecurity strategy. They are thinking ahead.
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Product Strategy: How to Find Product/Market Fit
Altexsoft
JUNE 11, 2019
So, finding a product/market fit and documenting it with a product strategy is what we’re going to talk about in this article. What is a product strategy? A product strategy is what you are going to do with your product in the near term, usually within a year. How do we know if we sell it successfully? And it’s fine.
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What underscores, and undermines, a successful CIO-CEO collaboration
CIO
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
IT leaders, as a result, are now established as part of the corporate core, helping to define strategy with a strong voice and a more direct connection established with group management and boards. One, because the CIO has evolved and wants to be in the strategy. The change comes from two sides,” says Fernández.
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How to strategically plan for your business’s future
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Here are a few tips on how to create a strategic business plan for your future. Employees and investors are unlikely to read your business plan if it’s long-winded and tedious. Use a list format to present your marketing aims, mission statement, objectives, strategies and action plan. Keep it simple!
Strategies to mitigate AI security and compliance risks
Modus Create
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Strategies to mitigate AI security and compliance risks By William Reyor Posted in Digital Transformation , Platform Published on: November 7, 2024 Last update: November 7, 2024 According to McKinsey, 65% of executives report that their organizations are exploring and implementing AI solutions.
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Amplifying Business Impact with Smart Promotional Product Strategies
Strategy Driven
JULY 22, 2024
This article delves into crafting smart strategies for promotional products that can magnify business impact and establish a firm standing in the market amidst fierce competition. Following are some strategies for crafting an effective promotional product campaign. Recurrent audits and evaluations can ensure optimum cost-effectiveness.
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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation
CIO
AUGUST 20, 2024
From there, the phrase went viral among practitioners, media, researchers, and executives as it described strategic plans for competitiveness and growth. Early on, I observed that business strategy was rarely driving digital transformation, resulting in very little transformation occurring.
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Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers
CIO
MAY 9, 2024
As such, they should have a proven track record of leading successful innovation programs and a clear understanding of how AI can transform the organization with ethics and governance in mind. For companies with a central strategy function, the CAIO will be a key partner in driving success.” Artificial Intelligence, IT Leadership
How To Differentiate Your Strategy Through Competence and Talent
Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Many companies have trouble articulating that answer, says Steve Van Remortel, author of the new book Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream: The Scoop on Differentiating Your Company Through Strategy and Talent. After helping hundreds of companies build successful strategies, Steve asserts: “There is no difficulty any [.]
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OKRs: A Simple But Awesome Strategy to Get Stuff Done
Evolution4all
JUNE 14, 2018
Often, the strategic plans and goals of the company are too high-level and abstract that employees don’t just feel lost, but also feel discouraged and find lack of purpose. Tactics fall under Key Results and basically, inform the “how” part. They are strategies used to perform those tasks. OKR at Google: A Case Study.
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The last thing most CIOs need is an AI plan
CIO
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Take, for example, how IT’s strategic planning process paved the way for smoothly deploying personal computers throughout the enterprise. Marketing knocked on IT’s doors, IT figured out how to feed the web-based orders into the company’s order processing systems, and brochureware gave way to ecommerce. Oh, that’s right.
Embarking on Growth: The Transformative Power of Entrepreneurial Coaching
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Through the guidance of experienced professionals who have successfully built and scaled businesses, entrepreneurs gain access to invaluable knowledge that can reshape how they approach challenges and make decisions. Be prepared to adjust your strategies as needed to stay on track.
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How to Navigate a Leadership Transition
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
If you’re taking on a new leadership role, this episode is for you.
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What business executives don’t understand about IT
CIO
APRIL 10, 2023
Despite this, many non-IT executives still don’t understand how to work effectively with IT, nor do they believe doing so is part of their job. The title of my presentation has been “Digital Transformation Strategy,” subtitled “How to effectively exploit the IT resource to gain sustained competitive advantage.”
Strategies to Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Sales Processes
Strategy Driven
APRIL 29, 2024
With AI, companies transform their sales strategies to meet modern consumers’ dynamic needs and behaviors. Sales strategies backed by such data are more likely to succeed in today’s data-centric business environment. This alignment leads to increased revenues and enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
If you’re leading a team within an organization, your strategic M.I.T.s often come straight from the organization’s strategic plan. Strategic M.I.T.s Initiatives Every strategic objective will have one more initiative or project that helps the organization achieve that strategic M.I.T.
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What are You Noticing? Insights and Obserations as the Year Comes to an End
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 9, 2022
We’re also noticing a surge of motivation around strategy as they invest in focused time together. We see a renewed commitment to strategic planning groups. How to Build a Great Team Culture (Even if You’re Not CEO). Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation.
Strategy Execution Newsletter - September 2011 - The Strategic Planning Edition
Six Disciplines
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Strategic Planning: THIS Time, Do It Differently - Do It Right ! In business, it means closing out Q3, leading to the final quarter of the year, and the annual strategic planning season. How will you approach your strategic planning session this year? Tis The Season for Strategic Planning.
Bridging the Gap Between Business Stakeholders and Data Modelers
Xebia
JULY 29, 2024
They are generally more interested in strategy and business outcomes. Data modelers need input from the business to understand what data is important and how it should be used. On the other hand, the business relies on data modelers to create strategies and visualize outcomes.
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How to Build a Travel App?
Existek
JANUARY 31, 2022
In this article, we’ll address the question of how to build a travel app and how to use it to a business advantage. How to start travel app development. How to build a travel app: key features. How to create a travel app design. How to monetize a travel app. HOW TO START TRAVEL APP DEVELOPMENT?
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How to achieve compliance with your diversity procurement goals
Invid Group
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
How to achieve compliance with your diversity procurement goals BY: ALBERTO LUGO Some federal agencies struggle to achieve their diversity contracting goals. Here are a few tips on how agencies can meet their diversity compliance goals. This article defines a diverse company as one that falls into one or more of these categories.
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Transforming Commerce: Chief Commercial Officer Search
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2023
This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success. In addition, the CCO manages and implements strategies to drive revenue growth, break into new market segments, and foster customer engagement.
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Maximizing Seasonal eCommerce Sales With Effective Marketing Strategies
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 2, 2024
With the right approach, a well-planned seasonal marketing campaign can lead to significant growth for your store. This guide will walk you through how to effectively execute seasonal campaigns to maximize returns. Identifying what worked well (and what didn’t) will allow you to refine your strategies for the next seasonal opportunity.
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