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Innovation and Performance Driven Strategic Process

This book provides a process and a model for business leaders and their associates to achieve their requisite goals of high performance today and the creation of a winning future. This is the world-class standard. When asked if they are world class or aiming to be world class, everyone will say yes. But those that are truly on the journey and persevere are much fewer. This book is for them.

For even the most successful firms, eventually, the old game, however great it may have been, is over. No amount of more refined analysis or doing more and better of the same will avoid decline.

Strategies come to an end; success does not continue forever. Eventually, some entrepreneur will come along with a superior business model for your existing business. But you can be that entrepreneur. Your company can be the innovator, the attacker, or the developer of new and stronger ideas as opposed to being the victim of someone else’s ingenuity.

Creating the Future provides you with a model and a process to get from your current state to your next target state. It outlines the strategy required to get from here to there by using three frameworks, each with their own specific logic and methodology: alignment, incremental innovation, and radical innovation.

Creating tomorrow in an organization dedicated to winning today is the most demanding management challenge. Creating the Future concludes with the approach to make this happen.


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Preface: Why this book?         iX
  1. Strategic Planning Creates the Future
    1. 1.1 The Challenge of the Second Curve
    2. 1.2 The Future Is Open
    3. 1.3 The Value Created by Strategic Planning
    4. 1.4 Pitfalls to Avoid in the Planning Process
    5. 1.5 Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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  1. Each Situation Is Unique
    1. 2.1 Situation Analysis: The “Where Are We?” Question
    2. 2.2 Creating a Fact Base
    3. 2.3 A Model of the Future-Creating Enterprise
    4. 2.4 The High Performance Assessment™
    5. 2.5 Validation
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  1. The Genius Is Inside
    1. 3.1 A Design Template for the Requisite Organization
    2. 3.2 Lean, Aligned, and Learning Structures
    3. 3.3 Four-Wheel-Drive Business Processes
    4. 3.4 Culture: The Best Idea Wins
    5. 3.5 Creating a Virtuous Circle
    6. 3.6 The Nucor Example
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  1. Alignment
    1. 4.1 A Client Example: “Crossing the Desert”
    2. 4.2 The Problem of “Maturity”
    3. 4.3 A Differentiated Competitive Advantage
    4. 4.4 Competitive Spirit
    5. 4.5 A Process for Strategy Formulation
    6. 4.6 The Mind of the Strategist
    7. 4.6 The Emerson Electric Example
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  1. Incremental Innovation
    1. 5.1 Chance Comes to Those Who Are Prepared
    2. 5.2 Idea Creation, Customer Involvement
    3. 5.3 Screening and Testing: Speed to Failure
    4. 5.4 Organizing and Managing Incremental Innovation
    5. 5.5 The P&G Example
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  1. Radical Innovation
    1. 6.1 Creative Destruction
    2. 6.2 To Make a Significant Difference
    3. 6.3 Growth Platforms
    4. 6.4 New Market Space
    5. 6.5 High Performance Work Models
    6. 6.6 Jump-Start the Process: The Innovation Lab™
    7. 6.7 The Entrepreneur
    8. 6.8 The IBM Example
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  1. Making It Happen
    1. 7.1 So … Do We Have a Strategic Plan?
    2. 7.2 Managing Change
    3. 7.3 Without Follow-up, Nothing Happens
    4. 7.4 Strategic Initiatives: The President’s Agenda
    5. 7.5 Disciplined Follow-up: The Management Forum
    6. 7.6 A-B-C Management Inventory
    7. 7.7 Beware!
    8. 7.8 A Journey to Mastery
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Bibliography         119
Acknowledgements         125

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