26 episodes

The North Star takes a deep dive into the topic of strategy execution, often challenging conventional wisdom for achieving an organization’s strategic vision. The host and thought leaders from multiple fields explore concepts that include rethinking innovation, increasing enterprise agility, transitioning to the circular economy, managing enterprise risk and becoming a cognitive enterprise. Setting sights on one’s “north star” is only half the story. Decades of experience point to the headwinds organizations have faced in pursuit of their strategic vision. To that end, the North Star examines how organizations can more effectively deliver on critical business strategies in these uncertain times. The show tackles intractable challenges that many organizations have historically sidestepped, such as optimizing major program investments and untangling high risk technology deployments. While the show often points toward the road less traveled, that road that can make all the difference.

The North Star William Ulrich

    • Business

The North Star takes a deep dive into the topic of strategy execution, often challenging conventional wisdom for achieving an organization’s strategic vision. The host and thought leaders from multiple fields explore concepts that include rethinking innovation, increasing enterprise agility, transitioning to the circular economy, managing enterprise risk and becoming a cognitive enterprise. Setting sights on one’s “north star” is only half the story. Decades of experience point to the headwinds organizations have faced in pursuit of their strategic vision. To that end, the North Star examines how organizations can more effectively deliver on critical business strategies in these uncertain times. The show tackles intractable challenges that many organizations have historically sidestepped, such as optimizing major program investments and untangling high risk technology deployments. While the show often points toward the road less traveled, that road that can make all the difference.

    Strategy Execution: Closing the Loop on Best Practices

    Strategy Execution: Closing the Loop on Best Practices

    This episode of The North Star will highlight best practices for end-to-end strategy execution based on insights collected from the more than 2 dozen industry experts interviewed over the past 6 months.

    • 1 hr
    Quick Wins: Transforming Organizations at the Periphery

    Quick Wins: Transforming Organizations at the Periphery

    Organizations around the globe rely on manual work, spreadsheets, and similar desktop tools to perform both mundane and sophisticated tasks.

    • 1 hr
    Encore Charting a Path to Your North Star via Strategy Execution

    Encore Charting a Path to Your North Star via Strategy Execution

    This encore of Episode 1 of the North Star establishes the show's purpose, basic themes and range of topics to be covered.

    • 1 hr
    The Business Architect: What HR and Hiring Managers Need to Know

    The Business Architect: What HR and Hiring Managers Need to Know

    Prior episodes of The North Star identified business architecture as a positive factor in successful strategy execution.

    • 1 hr
    Dynamic Strategy Setting in a Digital World

    Dynamic Strategy Setting in a Digital World

    Historically, strategy execution has been a linear process, where one group sets strategy and another group implements it. In practice, implementation teams often hold different views of what should be done from the strategy setting team.

    • 1 hr
    Enterprise Design: The Missing Link in Strategy Execution

    Enterprise Design: The Missing Link in Strategy Execution

    Enterprise design is the collaborative practice of designing and creating better enterprises.

    • 1 hr

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