Communicate your Strategy

Last week we asked the question; do 90% strategies really fail due to poor execution? The question caused a flurry of activity on LinkedIn and various blogs exploring where the statistic actually came from. As suspected, the stat is very old originating from a survey...

How to Create Objectives

How to Create Objectives – Performance measures are based on Objectives. A performance measure should not exist unless it is contributing to an objective. It is true that the thought processes that go into creating performance measures and objectives can move so...

Seven steps to successful performance measures

  Seven is the Intrafocus methodology that guides you through the process of developing clear objectives and performance measures to support your company strategy. It ensures performance measures have targets and provide evidence that objectives are being met or...

Goals or Objectives

Goals or Objectives? – Does it really matter what the definition of a Goal or Objective is when you are setting out your company Strategy? I was recently engaged in a heated discussion that very quickly degenerated into what the definitions actually were and...

Strategic Creativity

Having recently built a number of Balanced Scorecards for various companies/organisations I had been researching the topic of Strategic Themes and come across a very useful blog written by Sandy Richardson from Ontario, Canada.  The blog entry that interested me was...