
Decide and Deliver
Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
Harvard Business Review Press
Published on 27. September 2010
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-4221-4757-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dithering. Decisions that turn out wrong. Decisions that people sabotage or don't know how to implement. If your company's experiencing these problems, it's not alone. Most organizations don't know how to make and execute good decisions. And they're paying a high price--as profitability and competitiveness erode. It doesn't have to be this way. In Decide and Deliver, the authors draw on Bain & Company's extensive research to present a five-step process for improving your firm's decision effectiveness: 1. Assess your decision effectiveness--and how your organization affects it. 2. Identify your critical decisions. 3. Set individual critical decisions up for success. 4. Ensure that your company enables and reinforces great decision making and execution. 5. Embed the changes in everyday practice. Master this process, and you see immediate results: people across your organization collaborate to make crucial decisions better and faster than your rivals. And they execute them flawlessly-fueling unprecedented financial performance.
Filled with powerful hands-on tools and detailed examples from companies as varied as Ford Motor Company, British American Tobacco, Telstra, Lafarge, and ABB UK, Decide and Deliver helps you make decision management a potent competitive weapon in your company.
Filled with powerful hands-on tools and detailed examples from companies as varied as Ford Motor Company, British American Tobacco, Telstra, Lafarge, and ABB UK, Decide and Deliver helps you make decision management a potent competitive weapon in your company.
Reviews / Votes
"Decide to read it today." -- Accounting Today "...an organizationwide view of how to make good decisions quickly." -- CIO magazine "The book outlines a five-step process for improving decision effectiveness." -- CFO.com "Insights of immense value to managers and finance professionals." -- The Hindu, India "a simple, five-step process for improving a company's decision-making and executing ability." Consulting MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4221-4757-3 (9781422147573)
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Marcia Blenko | Michael C. Mankins | Paul Rogers
Decide and Deliver
Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
E-Book
09/2010
1st Edition
Harvard Business Review Press
€33.99
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Persons
Marcia Blenko leads Bain & Company's Global Organization practice and is a partner in Bain's Boston office. Michael C. Mankins leads Bain's Organization practice in the Americas and is a key member of Bain's Strategy practice. He is a partner in Bain's San Francisco office. Paul Rogers is the managing partner for Bain's London office and previously led Bain's Global Organization practice.
Content
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Decisions and Results Chapter 2 Score Your Organization's Decision Abilities Chapter 3 Focus on the Decisions That Matter Most Chapter 4 Make Individual Decisions Work Chapter 5 Build an Organization That Can Decide and Deliver Chapter 6 Embed Decision Capabilities and Sustain Results Appendix