NACD survey of corporate directors finds that directors expect modest economic growth and heightened focus on execution, CEO succession, workforce capabilities and technology transformation While ...

The merits of strategy are not in form but in execution. Strategies remain incomplete until handed off and executed—often to people uninvolved in the planning process. These individuals are crucial ...

It's a familiar scene in boardrooms across the globe. Performance numbers start to slip, and all eyes turn to strategy. Leadership teams rush to schedule offsite meetings while the company hires ...

Paul,* the CEO of Maxreed, a global publishing company, was having trouble sleeping. Publishing is an industry that’s changing even faster than most other fast-changing industries, but Paul wasn’t ...

As the pace and complexity of business accelerate, enterprise leaders are under pressure to deliver more, faster: more growth, innovation, and resilience. And yet, despite bold visions and thoughtful ...

In large organizations, execution doesn’t usually fail in the meeting, because most senior teams can have a good discussion ...

Most organizations don’t struggle to make progress because they lack ideas. They struggle because execution capacity hasn’t kept pace. New research from the Project Management Institute shows that 93 ...

Most current AI strategies may be failing due to misallocated focus - AI has become prominent at a board level, but this ...

One of the hardest questions in enterprise software isn’t “what are we building?” – it’s “why does it matter?” That disconnect – between the work being done and the strategy it’s supposed to serve – ...

We have never struggled to generate ideas. As an industry, we are strong on insight. Strategies are increasingly sophisticated. Human truths are well understood. Data is abundant. Platforms promise ...