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Integrating corporate sustainability in strategic management

Norbert Bol

Based on a literature review of 114 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles it shows that sustainability is an important topic for managers but they just rarely consider it in strategic management. Many companies therefore still lack a strategic approach to integrating corporate sustainability into strategy. Literature.

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3 ways to put your mission statement to work

Focused Momentum

A mission statement can inspire and fulfill a unique role in your strategic management toolkit , but they often play a boring role in the organizations that have them. It is because when given the chance, groups tend to want to spend our precious strategic thinking time wordsmithing.

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Three Steps to Discover Emerging Strategic Issues

Focused Momentum

In the last two posts, I discussed the need for renewing strategic thinking months before budgeting as another discipline of strategic management.

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Three Steps to Evaluate Emerging Strategic Issues (without disrupting your plan)

Focused Momentum

Managers consistently struggle with how to encourage innovation. In the last two posts, I discussed renewing strategic thinking months before budgeting as another discipline of strategic management. I like rabbits and I love ideas, but too many of either and you have a problem.

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How to Discern Operational Targets from Strategic Objectives.

Focused Momentum

If you are like most, you reviewed how well you performed against last year’s goals and then updated this year’s objectives with incremental adjustments and made a renewed commitment to keep them top of mind throughout the year. Ah, no, at least not if you intended to set strategic goals for the new year. That the job done, right?

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7 Ways a Strategic Plan Becomes Disconnected from the Business

BrainZooming

If you are concerned about your organization’s strategy being disconnected from important aspects of your organization, contact us , and let’s talk about how to make strategic planning productive and integral to running your company in the year’s ahead. Strategic Planning – How many strategic plans do we need?

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How to turn a budget cut into a strategic thinking opportunity.

Focused Momentum

As the fiscal year ends, the planning teams wrap up the annual planning and distribute next year’s budgets. Ideally, this would be a time of excitement as each new year brings new challenges and new opportunities. Unfortunately, more times than not, new budgets are met with disappointment rather than excitement.