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Videos  |  29 November 2022

Building Resilient Organizations, a new PMI | Brightline & Thinkers50 book.

Best Practices, Tools, and Insights to Thrive in Ever Changing Contexts.

With contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners from throughout the world, Building Resilient Organizations will enable you and your organization further to develop resilience as a muscle in your organization.

Reports  |  18 June 2020

What are the Skills and Functions Required of the CSO to Implement Strategy in Large Organizations?

We see the birth of the Chief Strategic Officer (CSO) position within the governance of large corporations, in a transfer process of responsibility for strategy execution to a specific role in an organization’s top management teams.

Reports  |  6 April 2020

Strategic Transformation Research

Mastering Strategy Implementation in Transformative Times

In this report, we examine the correlation between strategy implementation success and transformation effectiveness and speed. We also dig into factors such as adaptability, the adoption of formalized processes, and how frameworks are...

Reports  |  6 April 2020

Strategic Transformation Research – Appendix

Mastering Strategy Implementation in Transformative Times

This appendix is a complementary resource to “Strategic Transformation: Mastering Strategy Implementation in Transformative Times,” research report.

Articles  |  24 March 2020

Blocked pipeline: the career trajectory of women in strategy leadership

A study in Brazil shows how management consulting's gender gap affects the leadership ranks in strategy.

Workbooks  |  4 February 2020

Surprise, Surprise! A workbook for finding the keys to resilience in your strategic initiatives

This workbook helps you to explore why your organization is surprised in the first place, and how you can handle your surprises more effectively.

Articles  |  24 January 2020

Avoiding strategic surprises: beware of the lurkers!

The most challenging surprises in strategic projects are those that have been hiding in plain sight from the beginning.

Webinars  |  13 December 2019

What are the 4 Strategic Tasks in Transformation

Josef Oehmen (Denmark Technical University)

What are the tasks of the CEO, in an age when the interns know more than formal leaders? Dr. Josef Oehmen shares his key insights on the 4 strategic tasks that define the success of transformations.

Case Studies  |  9 December 2019

Reykjavik Energy Group

How An Icelandic Energy And Utility Company Realized Its Strategic Vision

Near two-thirds of Iceland’s population depends on Reykjavik Energy Group (REG) to provide electricity, geothermal water for heating and cold water for consumption and firefighting as well as wastewater systems and fiber-optic network.

Books  |  14 November 2019

Characterizing the Gap Between Strategy and Implementation

The last century has witnessed a rapid increase in global population, mobility, urbanization, and commerce. What should be our response to this age of connected complexity as practitioners, thought leaders, and researchers? These times push...

Case Studies  |  8 November 2019

Built For Speed: How Swift Strategy Execution is Improving the Lives of UAE Citizens

UAE Vision 2021 is an initiative that aims to make the United Arab Emirates (UAE) a world-leading country. Here are some of the principles that helped them successfully complete 40+ high-priority challenges under a 100-day deadline. 

Articles  |  9 September 2019

Research Highlight – Workshops on better managing surprises in strategy implementation

Brightline and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are currently working with teams of senior managers to fine-tune and validate a set of workshop tools that allows strategy professionals to understand how their organization manages...

Infographics  |  21 August 2019

Engaged Leaders Make Stronger Companies

What does it mean to be a role model in a leading organization? To answer that question, we can look to strategy implementation leaders—organizations that can adapt to new or unexpected markets, move ahead of their competition, and...

Articles  |  27 May 2019

Surprise: leveraging the unexpected in strategy implementation

Research suggests approaches to enhance practitioners' improvisational abilities

We love to emphasise the importance of details in strategy planning. This leads to a false confidence that all we need to do is “push the button” and lean back to watch our strategy implementation unfold.

Case Studies  |  14 May 2019

Organizational Transformation: How Steelcase Developed a Strategy for Growth in a Changing Workplace

Steelcase made its mark as an internationally recognized name in office furnishings with the introduction of Victor—a fireproof steel waste basket designed to reduce fires, which are often caused by ashes in wicker wastebaskets. More than...

Reports  |  13 April 2019

Testing Organizational Boundaries to Improve Strategy Execution

Culture beats structure. To discover how organizations can change how they work and optimize their strategic execution, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed 1,636 executives worldwide. Read the findings.