Running an Effective Strategy Review Meeting
Posted July 29, 2008 11:29 AM by Dylan Miyake
How many times have you attended a "strategy" meeting only to fall asleep halfway through? What is it about strategy that makes meetings so incredibly boring? Well, because most of the time, meetings about strategy are about anything but strategy.
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Boston Nonprofit Networking Breakfast a Success
Posted July 20, 2008 9:58 PM by Ted Jackson
On Wednesday, July 16th, Ascendant hosted a breakfast for nonprofit executives at the Fairmont Copley Hotel in Boston. Over 80 executives showed up. They keynote speaker was Dr. David Norton, co-creator of the BSC concept.
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Bridgespan study demonstrates clear need for Balanced Scorecard
Posted July 10, 2008 11:58 AM by Ted Jackson
In the Bridgespan Summer 2008 Knowledge Letter, released today, Kirk Kramer, a partner at Bridgespan, talked about a recent report from Bridgespan and Bain on how effective organization achieve superior results. In this research, Bridgespan compares assessment results of 30 nonprofits against Bain's database of over 500 for profits.
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Getting an Execution Premium
Posted July 9, 2008 12:09 PM by Dylan Miyake
The Balanced Scorecard management system has been around for quite some time -- born in 1992, it's now officially a teenager. And while 16 years is still relatively young in human years, it's a few lifetimes in management concept years. Remember the other "great ideas" of the early 1990s? Like reengineering?
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