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Balanced Scorecard Success: The Kaplan-Norton Collection (4 Books)
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Balanced Scorecard Success: The Kaplan-Norton Collection (4 Books)

by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1412 pages
39h 22m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER FOUR

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

Launching the Strategy into Motion

IN CHAPTER 3, we described how to translate a strategy into strategic themes, objectives, measures, and targets that represent what the organization wants to accomplish. Strategic initiatives represent the how. Newton’s First Law applied to organizations states that an organization at rest will remain at rest. Newton’s Second Law states that a force is needed to accelerate a mass into motion. Strategic initiatives represent the force that accelerates an organizational mass into action, overcoming inertia and resistance to change. Strategic initiatives are the collections of finite-duration discretionary projects and programs, outside the organization’s day-today operational ...

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