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The Purpose of a Strategic Initiative is Closing a Performance Gap
An illustration of a performance gap Strategic initiatives are tools for closing performance gaps. As a leader, you need to help your organization “map the gap” and close the gap. Performance Gaps...
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The Job of the Program Manager is to…..
The leader of a strategic initiative must develop relationships with numerous stakeholders and numerous projects; thus, the strategic initiative leader functions as a program manager. There are several...
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A Simple Idea that Every Good Strategist Knows
An IT program manager approached a Kaiser Permanente executive after a meeting and suggested a solution to an important business issue. That low-key, off-line conversation led to the chartering of a...
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That’s the Fact, Jack: Data Drive Strategic Initiatives
A strategic initiative is more likely to be successful if there is an accessible record of facts, data, and patterns. This gives the leader the inputs for creating a valid, useful narrative that will...
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Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, & Ambiguity (VUCA)
A leader of a strategic initiative confided to me that she was frustrated with her strategic initiative program’s progress. “How can we quickly execute our strategy in this fog of organizational...
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Beginners Guide: Competent Strategic Initiatives
Do you want to become more competent in the arts of strategic initiative leadership? I distinguish competency as a concept that holds a middle ground between being a novice and being an expert. Novices...
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Strategic Experiments & Agile Responses
Most strategic initiatives involve complex environments. The emergent nature of complexity means that the use of experimentation is essential to progress. A good strategic initiatives design is one of...
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Use the PAVER Framework to Assure Strategic Commitments
As they left the courthouse on the day their divorce was finalized, Mark apologized to his now ex-wife Renee, “I told you I would do some things for the benefit of our marriage. I didn’t do them, and...
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Complexity: Four Principles for Program Managers
I started writing this article to report and elaborate on eleven useful practices as identified in a 2014 Project Management Institute (PMI) publication titled Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide....
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Critical Asking
A challenge of strategy execution is that visionary people (executives and managers) have visions, ideas, goals, and solutions; they need others to realize the benefits. Often, the tactical people...
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