Comments on: How to close “the knowing-doing gap?” Just do it. Do it now. http://cpatrendlines.com/2009/04/08/how-to-close-the-knowing-doing-gap-just-do-it-do-it-now/ Actionable Intelligence for the Tax, Accounting and Finance Community from Bay Street Group LLC Wed, 23 May 2012 22:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Krech http://cpatrendlines.com/2009/04/08/how-to-close-the-knowing-doing-gap-just-do-it-do-it-now/comment-page-1/#comment-545469 John Krech Mon, 04 May 2009 19:53:53 +0000 http://cpatrendlines.com/?p=3134#comment-545469 Great post - wow. Businesses need to utilize tools that make implementing strategies such as Lean or improving economic value added (balanced scorecards)easy. Businesses need to align every aspect of their operations with these objectives and leverage the appropriate technology tools can make this feasible. For example, our solution specializes in guiding small businesses to optimize their inventory peak financial performance (maximum economic value added) using color coded alerts or Lean Kanbans. In three clicks of a mouse once a week, a technology can close the knowing and doing gap around the right metric with the right tools. In other words, by creating an easy to use process that first creates knowledge and then create actions, one can close the gaps in the execution of their strategic plan. Great post – wow. Businesses need to utilize tools that make implementing strategies such as Lean or improving economic value added (balanced scorecards)easy.

Businesses need to align every aspect of their operations with these objectives and leverage the appropriate technology tools can make this feasible.

For example, our solution specializes in guiding small businesses to optimize their inventory peak financial performance (maximum economic value added) using color coded alerts or Lean Kanbans.

In three clicks of a mouse once a week, a technology can close the knowing and doing gap around the right metric with the right tools.

In other words, by creating an easy to use process that first creates knowledge and then create actions, one can close the gaps in the execution of their strategic plan.

]]> By: Tom Hood http://cpatrendlines.com/2009/04/08/how-to-close-the-knowing-doing-gap-just-do-it-do-it-now/comment-page-1/#comment-545446 Tom Hood Sun, 03 May 2009 19:39:24 +0000 http://cpatrendlines.com/?p=3134#comment-545446 Rick, great post and the statistics are a wake up call. We call this "alignment" - does th strategy cascade though the organization? Can all of your people understand the strategy well enough to apply it to changing circumstances and scenarios? Worse yet, many CPA firms and small business have no strategic plan and no communication / linkage to their staff - very dangerous in these turbulent times. Futurist Watts Wacker said it well, "If you do not have a vision (strategy) for the future, you will just get sucked into someone else's vision (customers, staff, suppliers)." Rick, great post and the statistics are a wake up call. We call this “alignment” – does th strategy cascade though the organization? Can all of your people understand the strategy well enough to apply it to changing circumstances and scenarios?

Worse yet, many CPA firms and small business have no strategic plan and no communication / linkage to their staff – very dangerous in these turbulent times. Futurist Watts Wacker said it well, “If you do not have a vision (strategy) for the future, you will just get sucked into someone else’s vision (customers, staff, suppliers).”

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