Article published by Global Edge Business Review, Michigan State University.

Executive Briefing:

This article presents the drive of Renault from the edge of bankruptcy to the rise of its model Logan to international preeminence, fame and success. At the same time, Renault concentrated its production in countries that have been considered by the major car manufacturers as solely a marketplace and not the location of their production.

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Here's a great article by Brian Lassiter, President of the Minnesota Council for Quality (a state-level Baldrige program) that discusses the impediments to executing strategy.

He cites a small study that ranks specific issues. Here's an excerpt:

“69% of these leaders are NOT confident in their organization’s ability to execute strategy. Wow – that is as disturbing as it probably is accurate: leaders at various levels in the organization fully recognize and are realistic about the challenges in… Continue

The Copenhagen accord is there-and the inevitability of reducing carbon emissions and carbon footprint of your activities and business starts to stare you on your face.Travel has to be cut down until cleaner fuels are in place-and that means leveraging and operating thru ICT technologies.The ICT impacts on climate change are also not small as some studies reveal-so carbon neutral ICT developments are called for.There is a need to undertake a CIA along with the mandatory EIA in the developing wor… Continue

We're surveying people to get a sense of how the current economic climate is impacting the way organizations view performance management and strategy execution and would love your input.

It's a single question poll, so it will only take a minute. Just go to this page on the Strategy Execution Blog, The Glue: http://www.strategyexecutionblog.com/2009/09/take-our-poll-i… Continue

What goes into measure selection and design? How do you know you have the right measures? Have you considered the law of unintended consequences? So often I receive calls from companies that started with a viable strategy only to have the measure drive the wrong results. How does this happen? Maybe we call this segment “When bad things happen to good strategies?”

The case is a telecommunications company call center with a strategic objective “Resolve Customer Complaints Efficiently”. The… Continue