Resources

Actuate: In our opinion, the best performance management/balanced
scorecard software out there!
Actuate integrates over sixteen years of experience, best practices and industry knowledge to
ignite the BIRT Performance Management process, empowering the enterprise to drive
strategy and align operational plans that improve decision making to ensure continued
performance gains and execution at all levels.

Seth Godin's Blog: SETH GODIN has written twelve books that have been translated
into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the
post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of
all, changing everything.

Six Disciplines Blog: This blog (formerly the "Be Excellent" blog) has over 1,500 blog
posts about strategy execution, business coaching, leadership development, and business
process improvement. Look around, and you'll soon find out why this blog previously won
prestigious blogging awards, has been syndicated by major media distribution, and has
thousands of visitors every month.

The Strategy Execution Challenge Mastery Assessment

Successful organizations are the champions at strategy creation and execution
- not something most organizations can claim to be good at!
Research into what makes these organizations so good at beating the strategy
execution challenge has shown us that they excel in five areas. Within each of
these five areas, there are several specific activities they engage in.

This assessment is designed to (1) help you assess where your organization is
in its journey to becoming a strategy execution champion, and (2) get some
practical suggestions for steps you can take now to improve your mastery level
from one of our consultants.

To take advantage of the Strategy Execution Challenge Mastery Assessment offer,
simply download the assessment tool by clicking on the link below.

Using the instructions on the first tab of the tool, complete your self-assessment.
Once you have finished, return your self-assessment document to
Strategy Focused Business Solutions.

Next, Sandy Richardson, our Managing Consultant, will review your assessment. Then you
and Sandy will meet by teleconference for 30 minutes to discuss the results of your
self-assessment and the most critical steps you can implement today to move your
organization further along towards strategy execution challenge mastery!

Just click on the link here to get started!