HBR guide to managing strategic initiatives
HBR guide to managing strategic initiatives
Harvard Business Review guide to managing strategic initiatives Managing strategic initiatives
by Harvard Business Review
- Boston : Harvard Business Review Press, ©2020
- xiii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Harvard business review guides .
This book includes index.
Introduction: Putting Strategy into Action Section One: From Idea to Pitch
1: A Guide to Winning Support for Your New Idea or Project
2: How to Keep Support for Your Project from Evaporating
3: You've Pitched Your Initiative--What's Next? Section Two: Evaluating and Prioritizing an Initiative Portfolio
4: Which Initiatives Should You Implement?
5: A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities
6: Too Many Projects
7: The Initiative Portfolio Review Process
8: Rebalance Your Initiative Portfolio Section Three: Launching and Implementing Initiatives
9: New Project? Don't Analyze Act
10: Monitoring and Controlling Your Project
11: Building a Transformative Team
12: Teamwork on the Fly
13: Why Good Projects Fail Anyway Section Four: Maintaining Momentum and Overcoming Challenges
14: Four Ways to Be More Effective at Execution
15: Learning in the Thick of It
16: How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to another
17: Making Process Improvements Stick
18: Your Initiative Needs an ""Exit Champion Section Five: Keeping Strategy and Execution Aligned
19: Good Strategy Execution Requires Balancing Four Tensions
20: Five Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy Execution Gap
21: Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible but So Does Your Execution
"This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career. Strategic initiatives are where the rubber meets the road when it comes to putting strategy into action, and leading a critical initiative may be the key to propelling your career forward. Yet managing a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle. The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch, implementation to scaling up or winding down. You'll learn how to: launch an initiative in a way that maximizes its chance of success ; assemble a team that's ready to perform ; gather the resources you need ; stay on schedule and within budget ; avoid losing momentum once the initiative is up and running ; maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders ; put strategy into action"--
9781633698185
2019035457
Project management.
Strategic planning.
Business planning.
Success in business.
Leadership.
HD69.P75 / H393 2020
658.404 / HAR-H
This book includes index.
Introduction: Putting Strategy into Action Section One: From Idea to Pitch
1: A Guide to Winning Support for Your New Idea or Project
2: How to Keep Support for Your Project from Evaporating
3: You've Pitched Your Initiative--What's Next? Section Two: Evaluating and Prioritizing an Initiative Portfolio
4: Which Initiatives Should You Implement?
5: A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities
6: Too Many Projects
7: The Initiative Portfolio Review Process
8: Rebalance Your Initiative Portfolio Section Three: Launching and Implementing Initiatives
9: New Project? Don't Analyze Act
10: Monitoring and Controlling Your Project
11: Building a Transformative Team
12: Teamwork on the Fly
13: Why Good Projects Fail Anyway Section Four: Maintaining Momentum and Overcoming Challenges
14: Four Ways to Be More Effective at Execution
15: Learning in the Thick of It
16: How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to another
17: Making Process Improvements Stick
18: Your Initiative Needs an ""Exit Champion Section Five: Keeping Strategy and Execution Aligned
19: Good Strategy Execution Requires Balancing Four Tensions
20: Five Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy Execution Gap
21: Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible but So Does Your Execution
"This big initiative could make or break this fiscal year--or your career. Strategic initiatives are where the rubber meets the road when it comes to putting strategy into action, and leading a critical initiative may be the key to propelling your career forward. Yet managing a cross-functional team on a high-profile project can present a multitude of challenges and risks, causing even the most experienced manager to struggle. The HBR Guide to Managing Strategic Initiatives provides practical tips and advice to help you manage all the stages of an initiative's life cycle, from buy-in to launch, implementation to scaling up or winding down. You'll learn how to: launch an initiative in a way that maximizes its chance of success ; assemble a team that's ready to perform ; gather the resources you need ; stay on schedule and within budget ; avoid losing momentum once the initiative is up and running ; maintain the confidence of sponsors and stakeholders ; put strategy into action"--
9781633698185
2019035457
Project management.
Strategic planning.
Business planning.
Success in business.
Leadership.
HD69.P75 / H393 2020
658.404 / HAR-H