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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every project has opponents who try to manipulate that project for their own gain. This is a well-hidden truth. As most people who have been associated with executing strategy are aware, good projects intentionally gone bad is a reality.

Cyber security is a critical issue that is becoming progressively more critical and at the same time more complex, affecting everything that computes, manages, and communicates information.

On this episode of The North Star, we will explore the root causes of underperforming software teams.

Long ago, U.S. states set their own standards for railroads, meaning tracks did not align as trains traveled cross country, creating more than an inconvenience.