The Focused Organization

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, professor and best-selling author of the book on strategy execution "The Focused Organization". Antonio has been featured in several magazines, including Singapore Management Institute, Strategy Business Review and The Economist. He is the founder of the largest LinkedIn group in Strategy Execution (StrateXecution) which has more than 5.000 experts worldwide. Antonio is a professor at the #1 executive education school in the world (Duke CE) and other leading business schools such as Instituto de Empresa, Solvay and Vlerick. He has delivered executive programs to leaders of more than 30 multinationals on how to improve their strategy execution and project management capabilities. In 2013 Antonio was elected as Director for the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org ). Currently he is the ViceChair of the Board. In addition, Antonio is the Head of Transversal Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis. Prior to that, he was head of post-merger integration at Fortis Bank, leading what was the largest takeover in the financial service history: the acquisition of ABN AMRO. He also worked for 10 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior manager.

Contents: Foreword, Greg Balestrero; Benny's tale; Introduction; Part I Why Most Companies Only Partially Achieve Their Strategies: Organizational evolution and the challenges of strategy execution; Evidence of the neglect of project management; Why so many strategic initiatives have failed. Part II The Benefits and Methods of Becoming Focused; How companies can FOCUS; A six-pillar framework for becoming a focused organization; How to implement a focused organization; Case study: the evolution of Spare Parts Benny, Inc.; Bibliography; Index.