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Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers

StrategyDriven Strategic Analysis Best PracticeOrganizational alignment to common goals suggests executive, manager, and employee motivation is largely driven by the company’s strategic plan. However, there are likely some additional, hidden performance drivers unintentionally created by the organization’s processes or embedded as an integral component of the organizations’ history and culture.


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About the Author

Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Principal is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

New Model Released – Business Process Relationships

StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of our third model, Business Process Relationships. This model illustrates the many interrelations between the strategic business planning and tactical business execution processes. Additionally, the model provides a framework against which to association the many best practices posted on the StrategyDriven website.

Recommended Resource – Great Escapes

Great Escapes: nine decision-making pitfalls and nine simple devices to beat them
FORTUNE Magazine, June 27, 2005
by Michael and Jerry Useem

About the Reference

Great Escapes: nine decision-making pitfalls and nine simple devices to beat them by Michael and Jerry Useem explores the logic flaws that often skew perceptions and undermine decision-making effectiveness. The article provides methods executives and managers can employ to avoid each logic trap thereby improving their decision-making.

Benefits of Using this Reference

Great Escapes provides actionable methodologies for dealing with the decision-making challenges StrategyDriven contributors find to be the most prevalent at organizations of all sizes. Many of the best practices found on the StrategyDriven website compliment the Great Escapes’ recommendations; making this article a StrategyDriven recommended read.

New Category Released – Decision-Making

As a way of saying thank you to our registered members, StrategyDriven contributors are launching a series of new member’s only categories covering practices that permeate the strategic planning and tactical business execution processes. Our initial category, Decision-Making, will examine the four categories of decision-making (emergency, day-to-day, intermediate-term, and strategic), underlying concepts, and performance best practices and warning flags.

While access to Decision-Making will be limited to registered members, all other categories will remain open to all visitors. StrategyDriven contributors remain committed to updating the open access categories with the high-quality, weekly content on strategic planning and tactical business execution as we have done in the past.

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