Strategy Execution

Concepts

1. Making Tough Choices: Course Introduction
2. Balancing Innovation and Control, Part I
3. Balancing Innovation and Control, Part II
4. Managing Other Organizational Tensions
5. Analyzing the Four Ps of Strategy, Part I
6. Analyzing the Four Ps of Strategy, Part II

Featured Exercises

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  Analyze your organization’s approach to managing common organizational tensions
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  Identify strengths and deltas in your organization’s approach to executing strategy

Concepts

1. Designing High-Performing Jobs
2. Understanding the Entrepreneurial Gap
3. Identifying Spans of Influence and Support
4. Balancing Supply and Demand in a Job
5. Analyzing and Improving Job Design

Featured Exercises

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  Analyze a job using the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT)
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  Recommend a set of job design improvements

Concepts

1. Generating Creative Tension, Part I
2. Generating Creative Tension, Part II
3. Defining Core Values
4. Communicating Core Values

Featured Exercises

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  Identify ways to dial up performance and increase innovation within your team
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  Evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s core values

Concepts

1. Designing Diagnostic Control Systems
2. Introducing the Three Wheels of Profit Planning
3. Building a Balanced Scorecard
4. Selecting Goals and Measures
5. Powering up Performance Goals with Incentives, Part I
6. Powering up Performance Goals with Incentives, Part II

Featured Exercises

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  Analyze and improve your organization’s approach to profit planning
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  Identify critical performance variables and develop goals, measures, and targets corresponding to them
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  Analyze a range of incentive types and identify the most useful ones for different contexts

Concepts

1. Identifying Sources of Risk, Part I
2. Identifying Sources of Risk, Part II
3. Assessing Internal Risk Pressures
4. Designing and Enforcing Internal Controls
5. Building Business Conduct Boundaries

Featured Exercises

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  Identify internal risk pressures using the Risk Exposure Calculator
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  Propose solutions for a new conduct boundary at your organization

Concepts

1. Unleashing Freedom through Strategic Boundaries
2. Adapting to Change: Interactive Control Systems
3. Reviewing the Levers of Control
4. Implementing the Levers of Control, Part I
5. Implementing the Levers of Control, Part II

Featured Exercises

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  Identify which opportunities your organization should and should not pursue
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  Propose a system you can use to focus organizational attention on emerging threats and uncertainties
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  Apply course-wide knowledge by proposing a set of solutions to strategy execution challenges at a growing consulting firm
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  Capstone activity: develop an action plan for implementing the levers of control at your or another organization