Protected: Checklist on Business and Climate Change
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Business Performance, Decision-making, Environment, Leadership, Strategy, Technology
Business Strategy
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5 Reasons Why Every Company Needs a Cybersecurity Strategy
It happened on Saturday, 14 November 2015: unknown hackers accessed the app store database of VTech, a global supplier of electronic learning products with headquarters in Hong Kong. The hackers captured a significant amount of user profile data of children and their parents, as BBC News reported. The profile data included name, email address, encrypted
Decision-making, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategy, Technology
Protected: Cybersecurity Strategy Checklist
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How to Cope with Business Complexity
Business complexity has globally increased in the last three decades. Scope and diversity of products, services, processes and stakeholder relationships have significantly grown. The growth of complexity has come at a price: The world’s largest companies are on average losing more than 1 billion dollar each due to unnecessary complexity. At least this is what
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Business Performance, Decision-making, Leadership, Publication, Startups, Strategy
How to Increase the Odds of Startup Success
Nine out of ten startups fail. Or, if you prefer to look at the bright side, one out of ten startups succeeds. The crucial questions is now: what could you do to increase the odds of being the one in ten? There is no easy answer, and you will get ten different answers, if you
Leadership, Strategic Communication, Strategy
How Strategic Leaders Use Storytelling
Storytelling has proven to be an effective leadership tool in business communication. Or like US psychologist Howard Gardner said: “Every great leader is a great storyteller”. Thus, it is not surprising that executives at many major companies, like 3M, Nike, and Procter & Gamble, have embraced storytelling. A number of strategic leaders at these and
Business Performance, Decision-making, Leadership, Strategy
The Power of Strategic Questions
Let me start with a question: how frequently do executives and employees ask general, business-related questions in your organization? If your answer is ‘Not too often’, I would recommend to ask yourself ‘Why?’ and ‘How could we change this?’. A tool for strategic leaders Questions are an indispensable tool for strategic thinking. Questions are the
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Protected: Selected Questions for Your Business Strategy
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Balanced Scorecard Revisited – How to Use BSC in Strategic Management
One of the most popular tools for strategy implementation is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). More than two decades after it was presented to the public by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton in 1992, the BSC has turned out to be one of the most popular management tools, which is not only used by
Business Performance, Leadership, Strategy
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How to Use Key Performance Indicators for Strategy Implementation
Key performance indicators (KPIs) have become commonplace in large and medium-sized companies worldwide. However, despite the widespread use of KPIs, many companies still have not managed to get a high benefit from KPIs. Frequently, KPIs are just seen as a tool for measuring performance on an operational level. This approach misses the benefits KPIs can