num_pages: 400
description: Accelerated Strategy Development and ExecutionThe company of today has its supply chains and finances stretched further around the globe than ever before while simultaneously having increasing pressures to drive value across a complicated and fluid set of metrics and deliver innovations products and services more quickly and reliably. The competitive advantage belongs to the companies that can quicken their vision-building and strategy-execution effortsthe ones that can identify challenges more swiftly and accelerate their decision making so they are better able to formulate and deploy responses decisively yet with greater agility. To successfully accomplish this companies will have to prioritize creating a culture of leadership that strengthens communication skills and emphasizes systems thinking by building capacity and capability that cuts across the business smokestacks and permeates the entire organization.In State of Readiness  Joseph F. Paris Jr. shares over thirty years of international business and operations experience and guides C-suite executives and business-operations and -improvement specialists on a path toward operational excellence  the organizational capability and situational awareness that is attained as the enterprise reaches a state of alignment for pursuing its strategies. In doing so create a corporate culture that is committed to the continuous and deliberate improvement of company performance and the circumstances of those who work therea precursor to becoming a high-performance organization.
language: English
title: State of Readiness: Operational Excellence as Precursor to Becoming a High-Performance Organization
publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press