Strategy, Execution and Organizational Alignment
February 5, 2008
One of the toughest challenges that a CEO faces is connecting their strategy to execution. It's considered to be the major reason why CEOs fail.The strategy execution process looks like this:Clear strategic planning - mission, vision, values, strategic... Read more...
What Electronic Documents Need to be Retained?
February 5, 2008
Trying to figure out what electronic documents you need to hold on to and what can be trashed is a dizzying effort. Business scandals like the ENRON crisis really opened our eyes to document retention and made it more of a focus (and more publicly known). An... Read more...
EVENT: NYC Women’s Leadership & Innovation Conference
February 5, 2008
An inspirational women’s conference planned for New York this Saturday will focus on creating opportunities, unleasing potential and career growth. “Right now, the need is even greater for women to invest in developing themselves and the people... Read more...
Top Concerns for CFOs in 2008
February 5, 2008
Regulations, making budget, competition … all of these things are important issues for companies. But for 2008, finding adequate talent is the top concern for chief financial officers — 20 percent of CFOs told Robert Half Management Resources... Read more...
StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 9 - Horizontally Shared Organizational Performance Measures
February 5, 2008
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve better results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag... Read more...
The Truth About Performance Appraisals
February 5, 2008
“What do you hate about performance appraisals?” I asked, gazing into a classroom full of rolling eyes. The snickers and muffled laughter hinted that I struck a chord. Each table created responses that sounded like these: They are a waste... Read more...
The Key to Inspiration
February 5, 2008
Today is "Super Tuesday" and the candidates for both parties are doing their best to win our votes on this pivotal primary election day. (Don't forget to vote!) One word we've heard a lot in this primary season is "inspiration." Many... Read more...
Why are enterprise applications so dumb?
February 5, 2008
(Posted by guest blogger, James Taylor) In general Enterprise Applications rely on human intelligence - Humans must use dashboards and reports to learn from their data, most decisions are managed with work lists, someone has to log on and... Read more...
Balanced Scorecard Meets Web 2.0
February 4, 2008
As mentioned in the Dashboard Spy post “Evolution of Dashboard Design Aesthetics“, there has been a trend of business intelligence dashboards and Balanced Scorecard Designs adopting the Web 2.0 look. Recently we’ve seen a lot of positive... Read more...
Need to Find Accounting Employees?
February 4, 2008
There is a new job board just for locating accounting employees. AccountingEmployees.com was launched by AccountAbilities, Inc. The site will feature available accounting jobs in the United States as well as positions open within CPA firms that work with... Read more...
