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A Way to Assess and Prioritize Your Change Efforts
Change is the status quo. Companies the world over realize that success depends on their ability to respond to new opportunities and threats as they emerge, and to keep rethinking their strategies, structures, and tactics to gain ephemeral...
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Blockchain, the Emerging Platform for Manufacturing 4.0
This white paper explores how distributed ledgers will serve as open platforms for strategy delivery in the fourth industrial revolution.
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Amazing Ideas in Business from TED2018
Report: TED 2018 – The Age of Amazement – In business, so much can spark amazement — a great idea that suggests a new market, a product or service that becomes a part of people’s lives, a plan that has an entirely different effect...
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Changing Change Management: A Blueprint That Takes Hold
Organizations can successfully manage change—and make sure the changes stick. BCG explains the impact of the Change Delta.
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Distributed Connectivity – The Blockchain-enabled Future of Telecommunications
This white paper explores the breadth of blockchain’s impact on the telecommunications industry. The author presents a framework for evaluating use cases, actionable ideas for blockchain implementation, the risks and limitations of...
Interviews
Bridging the Strategy Implementation Gap
Interview: The EIU interviewed Joseph Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, and Donald Sull, Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, about strategy implementation.
Interviews
Preventing a “frozen middle”: How to engage middle managers to close the strategy implementation gap
Interview: Q&A with Bharat Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and John Seifert, Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather.
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Closing the Gap: Designing and Delivering a Strategy that Works
To understand why many organizations fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and delivery, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) undertook a global multi-sector survey of 500 senior executives from companies with annual revenues of...
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Getting Smart About Change Management
The business world, like the geopolitical world, has entered a new age of uncertainty. Turbulence is affecting more and more industries, more frequently and more severely. One-time market leaders and corporate giants fall rapidly from...
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Harvard Business Review: The Gap Between Strategy and Execution
This HBR Insight Center collection, sponsored by Brightline, cuts through the jargon and hand-waving and gives executives clear, actionable advice on how to close the gap between strategy and execution. A total of 24 relevant articles were...
Case Studies
How a Focus on Culture, Talent, Metrics and Technology Drives the American Red Cross’s Strategy
Every year, the American Red Cross responds to an average of 64,000 disasters, provides 40% of the country’s blood supply, trains nearly 5.9 million people in first aid and CPR, and offers more than 110,000 military families emergency...
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How Saudi Telecom Is Reinventing Itself Through Smart Strategy Delivery
Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications industry is in the midst of a seismic shift. Saudi Telecom (STC) has responded to this changing climate with bold moves, including a new business strategy that focuses on growth in several key areas and...
Reports
Learning from Crisis Mode (Appendix)
Quartz Insights, in collaboration with the Brightline Initiative, set out to identify the ways that organizations can best leverage the experience of a crisis and use those learnings to improve the way they integrate strategy design and...
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Learning from Crisis Mode
Implications for Better Strategy Implementation
Quartz Insights, in collaboration with the Brightline Initiative, set out to identify the ways that organizations can best leverage the experience of a crisis and use those learnings to improve the way they integrate strategy design and...
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NASA’s Down-To-Earth Principles Deliver Positive Strategic Outcomes
Not every organization is preparing for future trips to Mars or searching for planets well beyond our solar system. But while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pursues these and additional otherworldly ambitions, its...
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On timing and rhythm for strategy implementation
Every executive needs to address four timing dilemmas in their strategy process
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Power to the People
Leaders pursuing a change of strategy often overlook the individuals in their organisation. But with huge sums of money at stake between strategy design and delivery, it is time to rethink the ‘people gap’.
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Smart and simple strategy decisions to minimise regret
Why we should not try to pick the best option, but instead use simple rules to eliminate the worst choices
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Netflix’s success demonstrates the importance of strategic agility
One of the main drivers for the remarkable success of the streaming service is strategic agility. Netflix’s ability to adapt in in order to grow is a lesson for businesses of all sizes.
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Strategic Initiative Management: The PMO Imperative
For many businesses today, generally only two things are certain: greater uncertainty and an accelerated pace of change. Globalization increases the scope of competition. Digitization hastens the pace of business. Customers are more...
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Ten questions to help you turn strategy into reality
The gap between strategy and implementation is often fatal. The good news is that it can be closed.
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Testing Organizational Boundaries to Improve Strategy Execution
Culture beats structure. To discover how organizations can change how they work and optimize their strategic execution, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed 1,636 executives worldwide. Read the findings.
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The Brightline Initiative extracts the key lessons from Davos 2018
The main takeaways from this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos were to observe the business landscape, adapt strategy, master implementation and promote inclusiveness.
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The Brightline Initiative gives life to ideas
The Brightline Initiative helps leaders bring new ideas into action and creates new opportunities for a range of organisations by bridging the gap between strategy design and delivery.