Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Age
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Strategic Corporate Communication in the Digital Ageexplores how contemporary communication approaches are crossing boundaries as innovative media formats and digital transformations offer new challenges and opportunities to academia and practitioners
The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES)
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The Strategic Planning and Deployment Excellence System (SPADES) provides a path to long-term success in the environment of rapidly changing technology and business systems. It combines the best of Hoshin Kanri, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and other proven management and leadership tools and techniques. This book presents a set of tools and techniques for developing and deploying a long-term plan for achieving sustained success. These concepts ensure graphically tracing the strategic planning process from the foundation of organizational principles to the enterprise vision and to the organization's long-term goals. The Scientific Method is the foundation upon which the tools and techniques of SPADES are applied. The Scientific Method begins with an observation of a phenomenon which leads to development of a hypothesis to explain the phenomenon. The hypothesis is then tested and, based on the analysis of the results, the hypothesis is accepted or adjusted as necessary. The testing may then be repeated to verify conclusions. The Deming-Shewhart Cycle of plan-do-check-act (PDCA) is the application of the Scientific Method for control and continual improvement of processes and products. SPADES is the integrated evolution of the PDCA Cycle and QFD to answer the challenges of how to stay competitive, year after year, in a dynamic environment of rapidly changing customer requirements and technology
Transforming project management : an essential paradigm for turning your strategic planning into action
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Turn your strategic-planning dreams into business reality with these project management and leadership best practices Executing on strategic planning is one of the biggest challenges leaders today. For example, Harvard Business Review reports that IT project failure costs businesses $3 trillion dollars annually. Stop Strategic Planning into the Abyss provides business leaders the key to addressing this issue head on. Stop Strategic Planning into the Abyss takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it-with skill, care, and expertise. Strategy-execution guru Duane Petersen reveals his unique and proven approach for tying strategic planning directly to project management. He explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts," then successfully lead the execution of the plan. You'll learn how to evaluate where you are versus where you want to be, develop plans to move your vision forward, translate strategic plans into action plans with tangible efforts, budgets, and schedules, and guide and inspire the individuals and teams tasked with implementing their plans
