Insights: CSO Insight

Digitization: Driving Disruptive Innovation

The phenomenon of digitization has expanded its impact broadly and deeply across all industries. Digital value chains, e-businesses, smart products, smart machines, and the “internet of things” have disrupted brick-and-mortar businesses and […]

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Exit Strategy: How to Find The Right Strategic Buyer

When looking to sell a business, it is usually in the seller’s best interest to sell to a strategic buyer.  Strategic buyers usually include competitors, suppliers or customers of your company. They […]

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Effective Strategic Planning: Field Powerful Strategic Initiatives

The problem with strategic initiatives is that all too often they are not strategic.  What they aim for is not always clear.  They focus on superficial issues and never get to the […]

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Corporate Portfolio Management Best Practices to Manage Complexity Across Units

Corporate portfolio management aligns investments to corporate strategy. It defines a portfolio strategy and its implementation for material investments of the business units. For companies of medium to large size, it is […]

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Effective Strategic Planning: Is Commitment Locked In?

A key moment of truth between the company board and its executive leadership is the Performance Commitment – an agreement that represents the actions that will be taken, the financial implications, and […]

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Get Strategic Due Diligence Right or Small Problems Turn into Big Problems

M&A growth can generate significant value. It can also be extremely stressful for corporate leaders. Once they set their sights on a target company, they start feeling anxious about pulling the trigger. […]

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Organizational Alignment: The Importance of Information Flow

A company’s organizational alignment to its strategy depends largely on management’s ability to access information to make decisions and take action. Clearly, without access to the right information, the organization cannot operate […]

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Is Your Organization Aligned with Your Strategy?

Strategy execution requires the organization to align with the strategy. The reason is that execution is the collective result of thousands of decisions and actions by employees at the grass-root level. For […]

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How Do You Know If You Have An Effective Strategic Planning Process?

Companies spend significant resources on strategic planning every year.  Six months to a year into it, many find out that they are no closer to executing their strategy and achieving results than […]

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Is blockchain technology the right choice for your company?

Blockchain is essentially a shared ledger system, a digital one that can significantly streamline and protect all identities and transactions. Its advent is in full swing as blockchain is having an outsized […]

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