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        <title><![CDATA[Case Study: Improving the Profitability of a Supermarket Chain]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the UK's supermarket chains had two Regional Distribution Centres serving 200 branches. The business wanted more refined distribution costs, a model of 'selling' (ie a typical branch), the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[ABM in Manufacturing: A Case Study of a Gas Turbine Manufacturer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two years previously the Company had ambitious plans. Production capability was enhanced, it re-organised into high-tech machine cells, a number of new markets were opened up and a partnership...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Performance Management - Making It Work, Part 2: Strategy Maps and Balanced Scorecards for Navigation and Speed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Strategy maps and scorecards are excellent tools in the quest for a strategy-supporting measurement system that links to operations and tactics. These are management tools that establish strong...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 3, so What Is ABM?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Initially Activity Based Costing (ABC) was presented as a means of establishing product costs more accurately. The emergence of Activity Based Management (ABM) provided a means of enhancing...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Activity Based Management: Improving Processes and Profitability - Chapter 4, Frameworks for Measurement and Improvement]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although ABM can be used as a stand-alone approach to understand processes, product and customer costs and profitability, it provides a more powerful means of decision support if it exists as part...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Use Strategic Communications to Execute Strategy: Why Strategic Communications Is so Critical]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Communications is critical to &quot;Making Strategy Everyone's Job&quot; in a Strategy-Focused Organization (SFO). Well performing organizations are far more likely than poor performing ones to have senior...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How Unilever HPC-NA Sold Its Employees on the Balanced Scorecard]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since its introduction in the early 1990s, the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) has evolved from a performance measurement tool to a strategic management tool. Numerous organizations report success in...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Benchmark Against &quot;Frugal Leaders&quot; to Improve ROI on IT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With benchmarking, IT management teams can analyze the company's IT spending, taking a detailed look at total spending on official IT, business unit IT spending (shadow IT), and indirect spending...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Five Distinct Views of Scorecards - And Their Implications]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Although an organization can have only one overarching strategy, there are five distinct views that stakeholders might have when reviewing a strategy and its associated performance: valuation,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Executing Strategy With the Balanced Scorecard]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Strategy is execution. If there's one lesson that can be pulled out of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, it is that successfully executing strategy is what creates value. There were plenty of...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:44:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Creating a Strategy-Focused Workforce]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Human capital is now firmly acknowledged as a strategic source of value creation - indeed, a company's most valued asset - in today's knowledge-based economy. As natural custodians of human...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part II]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/a-learning-and-growth-metric-for-strategy-focused-organizations-part-ii/174356]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[If economic value creation is the translation, through focused strategy, of intangible human into tangible commercial assets, then one can say that the learning-and-growth dimension of strategy...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:42:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strategy Execution in Government Organizations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Similar to the private sector in the post-Enron era, today's government organizations face accountability and stewardship challenges like never before. In addition, government organizations...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:40:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Communicating and Controlling Strategy: An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard Part 1 of 4]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper reports evidence on the effectiveness of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a strategy communication and management-control device. This paper reviews management control and communication...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strategy Maps for Government Organizations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As today's government organizations continue to look for effective tools to improve performance management, leading organizations are leveraging the power of strategy maps to help execute...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:34:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strategy and the Balanced Scorecard]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A key attribute of strategy formation is performing a different set of activities than the rivals. By choosing a distinct set of related activities one has the opportunity to create unique value...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:29:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Principles of Integrated Product Development]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Better customer relationships, frequent communication, and feedback systems lead to better understanding the customer's/user's needs. Customer involvement increases the probability of the product...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Managing IT According to a Hierarchy of Needs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In this paper, the author asserts that IT is a commodity and as such offers little competitive distinction and therefore no competitive advantage. As a result, the author suggests that IT...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues the Harvard Business School professor. Instead, business leaders should look for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 07:26:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Welcome to Hypercompetition - Competitive Advantage at Its Fastest]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/welcome-to-hypercompetition-competitive-advantage-at-its-fastest/174335]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Clearly, globalization in the service sector is a strong indicator that it too may be undergoing a shift similar to the manufacturing sector's shift to hypercompetition. Whatever a firm's business...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Driver-Based Planning: A Competitive Advantage]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Driver-based planning is an area of emerging interest within the discipline of Corporate Performance Management, also referred to as Business Performance Management. Analogous to the Oakland A's,...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Business Intelligence for Competitive Advantage]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Competitive advantages and disadvantages are the strengths and weaknesses of a corporation relative to its present and likely competitors. The overall business intelligence concept is dependent on...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cranfield School of Management Partners With BetterManagement.com to Bring Valuable Research and Insights to Industry]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[BetterManagement.com is the premier performance management Internet resource. The Cranfield School of Management has joined BetterManagement.com's elite group of strategic content partners....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Balancing Measures: Best Practices in Performance Management, Part 2 of 4]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is no generic set of balanced measures that can be applied as best practice to all functions of the public sector. Certain conditions, however, need to exist within an organization for a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nonfinancial Performance Measures and Strategy Execution]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are nonfinancial performance measures the key to better strategy execution? They are at the heart of describing strategy and of developing a unique set of performance measures that communicate...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Role of Performance Measures in Predictive Accounting, Part 1]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Predictive accounting seeks to understand the future. It is neither a crystal ball nor the wicked witch's mirror. It is based on the observation that all work comes from repeatable processes. A...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Beginning...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Management knowledge helps to improve an organization's performance. But how is management knowledge to be taught to the rank and file workers? Unfortunately, the field is too extensive for people...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aligning for Success: Enterprise Performance Management]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When birds migrate, they do so with a common goal - to get to a warmer climate for the winter months, a cooler one for the summer. For many of these birds, getting there successfully is a matter...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Putting an execution environment in place is hard, but losing it is easy. When a company executes well, its people are not victims of mistakes. And when a company executes well, its people are not...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Barriers to Performance Improvement]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Organizations begin performance management initiatives at any point - for example, one may begin with defining the corporate strategy and determining KPIs to support it. Others will initiate a...]]></description>
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