“Oh, so that’s what you meant!” Using scorecards to simplify strategy
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We see it all the time – strategies that are meant to align and energize people distract and confuse them instead. Creating a screening scorecard that anyone can use is a big help. The trouble with the term “strategy” is that it has so often come to mean anything important. So we have strategic procurement, strategic human resources, strategic you-name-it. Or strategies masquerade as goals in disguise. “Our strategy is to be the #1 or #2 operator in every market we serve”
“Oh, so that’s what you meant!” Using scorecards to simplify strategy
“Oh, so that’s what you meant!” Using…
“Oh, so that’s what you meant!” Using scorecards to simplify strategy
We see it all the time – strategies that are meant to align and energize people distract and confuse them instead. Creating a screening scorecard that anyone can use is a big help. The trouble with the term “strategy” is that it has so often come to mean anything important. So we have strategic procurement, strategic human resources, strategic you-name-it. Or strategies masquerade as goals in disguise. “Our strategy is to be the #1 or #2 operator in every market we serve”