A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership
This in-depth text features a model that describes strategic leadership. The author uses examples and graphical representations in order to embellish the concept.
A Manager's Home Page (Grant M. Bright)
This document represents a variety of quotations and illustrations that Grant M. Bright's collected over the last 31 years during his tenure with IBM. It contains over 2500 items arranged into 36 topics and represents about 300 typewritten pages.
The arrangement of the quotes into 36 topics will enable you to quickly find a quote that matches your needs. In addition, many browsers provide a "Find" or "Search" option. Use this option to search the document for particular authors or quotes that contain words or phrases you may be interested in.
The 36 topics are: Attitude, Business, Change, Communication, Creativity, Decision Making, Failure, Future, Goals, Human Relations, Humor, Leadership, Listening, Management, Meetings, Memory, Motivation, Negotiation, Optimism, Paradigms, Points to Ponder, Potential, Problem Solving, Public Speaking, Risk, Self-Esteem, Self-Improvement, Stress, Success, Teach, Teamwork, Technology, Think, Time Management, Values, Vision.
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Basic Description of Strategic Planning (including key terms to know)
This site has a wealth of information about strategic planning in organizations. It presents the specific benefits of such a process and the various models that can be adopted.
Business Continuity and Climate Change
This two-part article discusses environmental risks that may have an impact on the use of shared services and their consequences on the continuity of business operations.
Clarifying and communicating vision and strategy into action
This article explains the balanced scorecard in simple language with supporting diagrams. It presents the main concepts underlying this model, as well as the four perspectives that are part of it, as outlined by Kaplan and Norton.
Content Management Systems : Who needs them?
The capacity to correctly manage content and make it accessible to members of the organization is one of the keys to knowledge management, which is why it is necessary to truly understand the basic principles that govern content management systems.
Corporate Information
This site connects you to the company profiles of over 100,000 companies. It also offers some 15,000 research reports about these companies and, where reports are available, lets you compare a given company with three other companies of your choice. You can also select a specific industry in a given country for an overview of the situation there and a brief and highly pertinent description. In addition, this site includes links to over 1,000 other Web sites of interest.
Evolve
This article suggests a 7-point approach to changing your business model and improving your chances of surviving the post-crisis economic environment of 2009.
GLS Réseaux
GLS Réseaux is a consulting firm offering strategic intelligence to Québec organizations in French and English. This page presents newsfeed on strategic intelligence and knowledge management. There are links to news on the Internet, knowledge management, technology policies and four industries (agriculture, biotechnology, healthcare management and pharmaceuticals). It is thus extremely relevant for managers looking for documentation in these areas.
KMWorld Online
This continuously updated site offers news, publications and events on knowledge management (KM). It also features a world buyer’s guide for those interested in buying knowledge management software. Listed in the guide are vendor sites and other sources of information. Also found on the site are forums, newsletters and a chat room.
Make Strategic Planning Implementation Work
This site offers many texts that discuss the success factors for implementing strategic planning.
Management Accounting – Business Strategy
This article describes the concept of the product portfolio management matrix and explains the basics of it. Specific concepts, such as milking profits from cash cows to fund products with weaker positions, are also discussed.
Moving Away from Requisitions and Towards Strategic Partnership
This article explores an organization’s opportunity for frontward and backward integration of its information system with its strategic partner’s in order to eliminate requisitions and ensure seamless transactions throughout the chain.
Planning and Analysis in Change Management
This text explains various factors that can have an impact on the effectiveness of change management. It also offers several facilitating approaches to reduce resistance and allow personnel to accept the new situation. Finally, it suggests several sources of relevant information on this topic.
Strategic Leadership - Achieving Agility
This relatively short article explains what strategic leadership is. It describes the main aspects of strategic leadership and how managers can apply the concept.
Strategic Planning (in nonprofit or for-profit organizations)
This article explains how to conduct a strategic planning effort. It also includes many links for each step in the process.
Strategies for Success in Product Innovation
This article describes two winning product innovation strategies advocated by the author. The first is to effectively determine the relationship between technology development and product development. The second is to follow best practices in order to really make sure that priorities match client needs.
Strategis, Industry Canada
Strategis, the Industry Canada site, is the biggest and most complete Canadian Web site ever made available to business. With access to more than one million pages, grouped in 95 databases, this site is probably one of the biggest in the world; it gets more than 60,000 visits each day.
Among the main categories of information it contains are:
- Company directories
- Trade and investment
- Business information by sector (especially on aspects of competitiveness)
- Economic analysis and statistics
- Research, technology and innovation
- Support for business and finance
- Licenses, laws and regulations
It also contains user guides and a map of Canadian trade. (Note: some information pages may be out of date, having not been updated for more than a year.)
Successfully Closing the Strategy Gap
This text explains how to identify the disparities between chosen strategies and their execution.
The Ultimate Employee Buy-in
This text discusses an increasingly popular approach to achieving employee involvement and encouraging employee performance: employee stock ownership plans. In addition to promoting employee involvement in their firm, this method offers the advantage of pay based on organizational performance. Plus, private firms can increase their chances of survival when they sell the entire firm to employees.
Top Ten Tips - Scoping an Outsourcing Agreement
This article explains how to prepare a shared services agreement so that the scope of the project is clearly and precisely outlined and future misunderstandings can thus be avoided.
Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It: Project Management Excellence
This article presents four major pitfalls facing project managers: lack of planning, lack of senior management support, inadequate project management and inadequate participation by the client, i.e. the end user, whether internal or external. For each of these pitfalls, the author proposes interesting ways to avoid them.