Accelerating the journey toward organizational excellence: The power of combining strategic thinking with a complete awareness of organizational forgetting

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Design/methodology/approach

This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings

This research paper concentrates on the inter-relationship of organizational excellence, strategic thinking, and organizational forgetting, and explores five core factors in relation to organizational excellence: vision, creativity, systematic thinking, purposefulness, and randomness. Organizational forgetting has the potential to add or subtract competitive advantage from organizations. Common ways for knowledge to be unintentionally lost is through insufficient efforts to codify it, through failing to apply learned knowledge, and though a lack of knowledge-sharing among teams.

Originality/value

The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Citation

(2019), "Accelerating the journey toward organizational excellence: The power of combining strategic thinking with a complete awareness of organizational forgetting", Strategic Direction, Vol. 35 No. 11, pp. 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/SD-08-2019-0150