I’ve had many bosses who spoke about the need for “flawless execution” in our organization. They spoke of delivering with excellence, achieving plan, and a relentless pursuit of productivity in our work. Then they spoke about how innovative we were going to be. How we were going to try new things, adapt and increase our […]
Tag Archives: Execution
Building a Full Stack Strategy
This is a presentation I did for the Bank IT Conference earlier this year on my “Multi-Dimensional Strategy Cube” approach to integrating strategic planning across an organization. If you’re interested in more details or how this may apply within your business please contact me today.
Build a Strong Foundation for Innovation
Those of you who know me won’t be shocked by the fact that I have a serious passion for innovation. I believe you always need to be constantly pushing your organization (and your life) forward. You need to focus on reinventing what you do and how you do it as often as possible to drive […]
Connecting Strategy and Execution
I will be speaking next week at the Bank-IT Conference on the topic of “Building a Full Stack Strategy: Integrating Strategy from Business Vision to Tech Execution” so I felt that I would share some of my thinking more broadly here. While my discussion next week is focused on the Technology area, connecting strategy to […]
Who’s Driving Your Innovation Bus?
Innovation has become the buzzword of the decade with every CEO, Senior Manager, and CTO beating the drum for “Innovation” in their companies. While I don’t disagree with them on the need for innovation, I do have a major issue with the way that many of them are driving that innovation agenda. When tech leaders or […]
Are You Running in Circles?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been involved in a number of situations where urgent requests have been made of people and teams, and they have diligently run off at pace to deliver an appropriate response only to discover (days and weeks later) that their interpretation of the request wasn’t correct, or worse yet to […]
Packaging Matters
As I noted in my last entry, platform thinking is a problem when you try to communicate the value of your product or service offering to a potential client. The problem is that I have been struggling with the same issue for the past couple of months and only now have been able to put together the […]
It’s All In The Follow Through
It’s been said many times that follow up is key to success, but I would suggest that it goes deeper than just a simple follow-up if you want to dominate in your field. Just like a good golf swing, the best hitters in baseball, and a great slapshot, the key to exceeding the expectations of […]