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Implementing Strategy

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Having a sound strategy in place is well and grand, but implementing that strategy can be a horse of a different color. This guide features articles, case studies, and visuals that provide you with tools, tactics, and tips for implementing strategy within your team.

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Studies, Surveys, Guides and Visuals

CEO Insight & Commentary

How to Find Answers Within Your Company

MITSloanInternal knowledge markets can facilitate information sharing within large organizations. The trick for executives is figuring out how to make them work.

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When Your Team Reverts to the Old Strategy

BusinessWeekHow to get your reports back on track when they lose their focus and lapse into the old way of doing things...

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Tactics, Tools & Strategies
 - Five Steps to Implementation

Fast CompanyTo conceive, develop, and implement a sound social media marketing strategic plan that will be successful needs to have three critical components.

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Implement a PR Strategy in 7 Days

EntrepreneurBuilding publicity for you and your business can be done one day at a time.

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The Silent Killers of Strategy Implementation and Learning

MITSloanSix silent killers of strategy implementation exist in most companies, but too many managers avoid confronting them. Leaders need to face these killers if they and their organizations are to learn...

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How Hewlett-Packard Turns Strategy into Action

HP avoided the common stumbling blocks and rallied its business units behind "everything-as-a-service"

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Better Strategy for Business Units: A McKinsey Global Survey

Executives are most positive about the outcomes of strategy formulation for their companies’ business units when they work at companies that use a collaborative approach.

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Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Strategy

In 2005 Wal-Mart launched a sweeping business sustainability strategy to dramatically reduce the company's impact on the global environment...

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GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative

Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment.

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SAP's Strategy For The CRM Battle

FThe leader of SAP's CRM strategy explains how the company is competing in a crowded and hyper-competitive market.

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9 Negotiation Tactics From Famous CEOs

CEO.comEverything is negotiable. It’s one of those trade secrets every businessperson knows but won’t divulge. Because at the end of the day, those who bargain the best are the ones who come out on top. Learning to play the game to your advantage, to disagree without being disagreeable, is more than...

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How To Tell A Story With Data

HBRHere are some journalistic strategies on telling a good story that apply to data visualizations as well.

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3 Ways To Banish Wishful Thinking

IncThese three strategies will help ensure you're building a business based on reality, not wishful thinking.

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Six Simple Questions For Strategic Planning

CEO.comWhether you are developing a corporate strategic plan or setting your department's strategy, there is a direct correlation between the simplicity of a plan and the chances of adhering to it. Why stack the odds against yourself with an overly complex or unclear plan? A sound plan and a simple...

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Forget The Mission Statement

Fast CompanyWhat some of the most powerful CEOs in the country had to say about the questions that will keep any company on track.

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What J.C. Penney's Ron Johnson Must Do Now

FortuneJohnson's strategy must first be grounded in the simple fact that J.C. Penney customers are not the same as Apple's.

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4 Ways To Pull Ahead Of Your Competitors

EntrepreneurJust like football, business is a game of inches where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.

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What To Do When A Product Fails

HBRA charismatic CEO with the willingness to accept a setback, move in a different direction, and persevere to achieve this new and difficult vision can succeed where most fail.

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3 Ways CEOs Screw Up Strategic Plans

CEO.comAt one time, business executives believed that strategic planning was the answer to all of their problems. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), Michael Porter’s competitive strategy...

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7 Things Obama Taught Us About How To Win

ForbesThis is about how a legion of technologists and political advocates were able to help reelect a man whose last four years – let’s face it – was the political equivalent of Les Miserables.

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6 Strategy Lessons From A Chess Prodigy (Now CEO)

Fast CompanyWhile everyone compares business to chess, only a few people can teach the game's most profound lessons. Here, Justin Moore, CEO of the cloud company Axcient, does just that.

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Amazon's Brilliant Strategy To Give Away Money

SlateAmazon Coins is a brilliant strategy to give free money away to Kindle Fire owners.

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Don't Let Strategy Become Planning

HBRTo make strategy more interesting — and different from a budget — we need to break free of this obsession with planning. Strategy is not planning — it is the making of an integrated set of choices that collectively position the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage...

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P&G CEO: The Key To Powerful Business Strategy

Open ForumBusiness strategy is something that eludes most people. But having the right strategy is often the difference between failure and success. Given the high rate of failure for small businesses, strategy is something that simply must be understood.

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Treat Everything As A Case Study

HBRBy adopting the "Everything is a case study" mindset and seeing the world through the Case Method third eye, you'll learn to filter out the disinformation that life throws at you and uncover startling insights.

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