Posted by: Kim Warren
One challenge I got from the academics on the issue of strategy tools’ usefulness was whether growth is still a relevant question in these recessionary times.
Perhaps my original post to them was not clear enough. I meant to say that, as I understand it, investors are interested in the present value of future cash-flows – not growth per se. There is no point in simply growing market share or revenues if it does not ultimately improve future cash flows ...
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Just launched a short course at open learning materials provider, Coggno. Its free intro on ‘what is strategy’ may be useful in any case – it makes the case, with examples, that steering strategy and performance is a larger issue that the infrequent choice of strategic ‘position’ that dominates strategy books and courses. The short course is based on the full 10-week video slide-show course used in MBA programs.
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Here’s my latest msg to the B School academics [remember the point of this is to get some useful strategy methods for executives and consultants]. Will let you all know what response I get.
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Have had many useful answers on this. There seems little dissent that:
Posted by: Kim Warren
On behalf of executives and consultants who really would like some useful approaches to strategy, I last week issued the following challenge to the Business School profs’ discussion lists – so far, just a handful of the thousands of recipients have responded, and no explanation offered as yet for the irrelevance of strategy research and teaching.
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We had a great post in December from Richard Whittington [below], drawing attention to ...
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I’m not the only person blogging on business strategy of course – try Googling ‘business strategy blog’ – but hope I’m doing a useful job [tell others if I am - tell me if I'm not!]. Another nice resource is Edgevantage, which comes in the form of a more organised regular briefing from Donald Nordberg. The key issue is that people with strategic responsibility [and their advisors!] should be keeping on top of latest intelligence and carefully evaluating ...
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