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Principles: Fundamental activities or performance attributes without which effective performance cannot be achieved. Principles may be embedded within procedures or behavioral standards/expectations.
Best Practices: Those activities or performance attributes that enhance organizational results. Best practices may be procedurally driven or behaviorally based.
Warning Flags: Those activities or performance attributes that diminish an organization’s effectiveness. By their very nature, warning flags are active, not passive. They may be procedurally driven or behaviorally based.

Whitepapers

Whitepapers provide a more in-depth discussion of the concepts presented throughout the website. Collectively, whitepapers present a complete picture of the associated program or activity by describing foundational principles, activity interrelationships, process methodologies, expected benefits, and potential risks.

Models

Models are visual representations of the various concepts presented throughout the StrategyDriven Insights Library.

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Forms, nomographs, and other instruments useful in performing the various best practices as highlighted within the StrategyDriven Insights Library.

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StrategyDriven Insights Library Topical Areas and Forums

Strategy

A business’s overall strategy defines its purpose for being, what it will do to achieve that purpose, and how it will perform these tasks. The long-term strategy begins with the organization’s vision, mission, and goals as codified within a long-range (5 – 10 year) strategic plan. Annual business plans translate the long-term strategy into projects, initiatives, and milestone goals that are more tangible to employees and for which distinct daily activities can be planned.

Strategic Planning – This forum will focus on the principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with the leading practices of companies that successfully execute strategic planning processes to define objectives, drive alignment, and enhance performance.

Strategic Analysis – Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies that successfully execute strategic analysis processes to support the ongoing strategic planning process.

Alternative Development – Resources in this forum are dedicated to discussing the key principles and practices of developing high quality business cases from which organizational investment decisions can be made.

Alternative Selection – Resources in this forum are dedicated to discussing the principles and practices enabling leaders to most effectively choose those options aligned with the organization’s values and goals while offering a maximum value return to the organization and its stakeholders.

Resource Management – Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies successfully executing a resource management program in support of strategic planning and tactical business execution.

Resource Projection – Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies successfully executing a resource projection program in support of strategic planning.

Succession and Succession Planning – Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies that successfully execute succession and succession planning processes; maximizing the new entrant’s probability of success and the organization’s operational continuity.

Execution

Operational execution represents the day-to-day realization of the organization’s business strategy; the physical manifestation of leadership’s decisions regarding what the organization will do and how those activities will be performed. To achieve real success, however, these activities must be implemented efficiently and effectively.

Tactical Execution – Materials in the Tactical Execution Forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies that effectively execute their business initiatives and operations to the fulfillment of the organization’s strategic vision.

Portfolio Management – Materials in the Portfolio Management Forum will focus on the underlying principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with maintaining effective activity portfolio alignment with mission goals while, at the same time, efficiently deploying the organization’s limited resources.

Project Management – Materials in the Project Management Forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies effectively managing projects for the efficient achievement of mission goals. Additionally, all project management information presented will be aligned with, compliment, and expound on the project management processes described by the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

Human Performance Management – Materials within the Human Performance Management Forum focus on those principles and best practices implemented at leading organizations to ensure consistent, high-quality human performance appropriately balanced with the need for cost-conscious efficiency.

Monitoring

Surviving and thriving in today’s rapidly changing market requires organizational agility and the means to make rapid and sound decisions. Both of these activities require high quality and timely information on the performance of the internal organization and the many factors of its external market environment.

Evaluation and Control – Evaluation and control program components play a key role in an organization’s learning and growth efforts. They not only identify improvement opportunities, they also identify internal and external best practices that can be used to better existing processes. This continuous growth mechanism is critical to an organization seeking to maintain and advance its position in the marketplace. Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies successfully executing an evaluation and control program in support of strategic business planning and tactical business execution.

Organizational Performance Measures – This forum focuses on the principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with the leading practices of companies that successfully use performance measures to drive organizational alignment, accountability, and operational performance.

Management Observation Program – Materials in this forum focus on the underlying principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with establishing and executing a management observation program aligned with organizational values and mission goals that effectively modifies personnel and organizational behaviors for the achievement of superior results.

Business Performance Assessment Program – An organization’s assessment program plays a key role in identifying the performance improvement opportunities that will propel it to the next level of performance. Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies successfully executing an assessment program in support of strategic business planning and tactical business execution.

Corrective Action Program – An organization’s corrective action program plays a key role in identifying the corrective actions to day-to-day issues and requests needed to support continued operations and improve performance. Materials in this forum are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies successfully executing a corrective action program in support of strategic and tactical business operations.

Management

The terms management and leadership are often used interchangeably and managers are frequently assumed to be leaders. Nothing could be further from the truth. The function of the manager, and therefore the definition of management, is to direct or supervise the resources under his or her charge to the accomplishment of managed group’s assigned work. Leaders are individuals of impeccable character, unquestioned integrity, and unwavering selflessness that endear followers and inspire trust. Therefore, while a manager can also be a leader, a manager is not necessarily a leader. Likewise, leaders do not necessarily hold management positions.

Risk Management – Materials within the risk management forum focus on those principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with the effective monitoring, mitigation, and response to both identified and unidentified – Black Swan – risks.

Change Management – Materials contained within the Change Management Forum provide insight to the principles of change management as well as the best practices of those leaders recognized as top performers in this area. Each article is tailored to help readers improve their organization’s change management policies and practices so to achieve superior results and move ahead of the competition.

Business Communications – Materials within the Communications Forum focus on those principles and best practices implemented at leading organizations to ensure consistent, fluid transfer of information between individuals.

Decision-Making – Decision-making is a complex process that when done well enhances both strategic planning and tactical business execution. Materials within this forum explore the four categories of decision-making, underlying concepts, and performance best practices and warning flags.

Standards & Expectations – A high quality, effectively implemented set of standards and expectations are a critical component of the strategy driven organization. The combination of mission aligned task assignments, performance standards, and results goals establishes what is expected of strategy driven organization members. Documents in this area are dedicated to discussing the leading practices of companies that develop and implement performance standards that shape behaviors to the effective, efficient achievement of mission goals and organizational values.

Values

Organizational values establish the boundaries of decision-making and the norms of individual behavior; profoundly impacting the way an organization conducts business. When admirable and commonly shared, values bind together the organization’s executives, managers, and employees; creating an engaging environment that outsiders will seek to join.

Organizational Accountability – Materials in this forum explore the key attributes of accountable organizations and why many executives and managers intentionally or unconsciously avoid raising their organization’s accountability. We identify the programs, processes, and actions that can be taken to help promote increased accountability. Finally, we examine the many benefits that accompany higher levels of organizational accountability and why accountable organizations realize them while others don’t.

Corporate Cultures – Materials within this forum will address the methods to identify the organization’s values and the various value sets, their benefits and their drawbacks.

Diversity and Inclusion – While there exists a natural association between diversity and inclusion and organizational accountability, this forum will focus on the principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with establishing and maintaining a workplace environment that respects and values individual differences in order to earn full employee engagement and commitment to the achievement of the organization’s goals.

Talent

When highly skilled and knowledgeable people give the full measure of their creativity, intellect, and effort to achieving the organization’s goals, truly remarkable organizational performance results. Thus, talented personnel are the lifeblood of every organization and it becomes imperative that these individuals be valued and respected, inspired and motivated while at the same time being managed effectively and efficiently.

Talent Management – The Talent Management Forum’s collection of articles podcasts, and tools represents those principles, best practices, and warning flags associated with the establishment and ongoing maintenance of a highly effective talent acquisition, development, and retention programs.

Career

Today’s highly competitive marketplace demands continued personal performance improvement in order for professionals to remain viable and accelerated improvement to move ahead. Add in the exponential growth in available data and the vast number of global newcomers and it becomes easy to understand why all professionals feel overwhelmed. StrategyDriven’s personal performance improvement materials help relieve some of this stress by providing field tested methods and hard won insights that are immediately actionable to help improve individual performance effectiveness.

Professional Development – Articles within the Professional Development Forum focus on the methods used by truly StrategyDriven Professionals in the selection and execution of their developmental activities. Additionally, because organizational characteristics greatly impact professional development, some articles within this forum are dedicated to evaluating this organizational impact on one’s development, growth, and advancement opportunities.

Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy – The StrategyDriven Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy Forum focuses on the timeliness practices of highly successful military and business leaders.

Practices for Professionals – Materials in this forum provide immediately implementable guidance supporting performance of routine functions and activities by all professionals. These practices serve to directly enhance personal effectiveness and efficiency.

Other Resources

Centers

StrategyDriven Centers of Excellence
StrategyDriven Centers of Excellence provide executives and managers with the multitude of tools, techniques, and insights needed to not only address but to excel in these cross-cutting areas. Each Center of Excellence contains a collection of real-world tested tools and hard-won leadership insights based on our contributors’ work with dozens of small, mid, and large size companies with both domestic and international operations across many industries. Collectively, these methods represent the hundreds of years of experience of today’s most sought after leaders.

StrategyDriven Employee Engagement Center of Excellence

StrategyDriven Knowledge Centers
StrategyDriven Knowledge Centers provide executives and managers with a focused, deep-dive examination of a critical business performance area by one of our expert contributors. Each Knowledge Center contains a collection of insightful perspectives and immediately implementable tools that can be used to improve performance in its respective mission critical area.

Podcasts

StrategyDriven Podcasts provide an indepth exploration of the principals and concepts presented on the StrategyDriven website. Each episode contains rich examples that not only bring these concepts to life but help the listener more fully understand how to implement the subject principle or best practice to improve their and their organization’s performance.

The StrategyDriven Podcast focuses on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results.

The StrategyDriven Podcast – Video Edition focuses on the further elaborate on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results.

The StrategyDriven Podcast – Special Edition series introduces listeners to today’s top business leaders. Through our special edition podcasts, these highly successful authors share their insights on management and leadership effectiveness and achieving increased levels of business success.

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders.

The StrategyDriven Professional Podcast series focuses on the tools and techniques business professionals can use to accelerate their careers and personal goals achievement.

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective podcasts examine the unnecessary marketplace uncertainty created by the dithering, favoritism and power grabs of lawmakers and corporate executives; providing listeners with a perspective on how they can deal with these conditions in a way that positions their organization for long-term success.

Online Training

Designing Your Digital Products Platform
Learn how to blueprint the critical constructs of a Digital Products Platform that automatically markets, sells, and delivers your digital products. By participating in this three part video tutorial, you’ll learn:

How to identify your ideal customer and the optimal avenues through which to reach them,
How to define your website needs based on your ideal customer and product types, and
How to create an integrated blueprint that seamlessly links the online marketing, sales, and delivery of your digital product.

Maximizing the Value of Business Performance Assessments
In StrategyDriven’s FREE Maximizing the Value of Business Performance Assessments online training series, we’ll show you several of the principles behind our identification of $200 million in performance improvement opportunities – in 2014 alone – including:

the structure of information from data to insight
StrategyDriven’s yellow sticky analysis method transforming data to insight
how to get to a three whys deep understanding of problem causes
how to properly use experience when analyzing data, and
other concepts and methods for maximizing assessment value

Preparing for the Black Swan
In StrategyDriven’s FREE Preparing for the Black Swan online training series, you’ll learn the effective methods of dealing with unexpected, catastrophic events – Black Swans – including:

the warning flags of rising Black Swan risk
how to develop a healthy safety culture to minimize the risk of a Black Swan event
how to responsibly prepare for a Black Swan event, and
how to effectively monitor for rising Black Swan event risk

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StrategyDriven Insights Library Topical Areas and Forums

Strategy

Execution

Monitoring

Management

Values

Talent

Career

Other Resources

Centers

Podcasts

Online Training

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