It probably dismays strategy academics and experts to know, as they surely do, that their deeply researched and sophisticated frameworks and methods are little used by real-world leadership […]
Just HOW poor are spreadsheets for business challenges and planning?
I have often hinted – or more than ‘hinted’ – that spreadsheets are not fit-for-purpose for time-based planning, challenges or initiatives. … so I tried a small exercise […]
How competition changes over a market’s life
I posted recently about how competition operates through 3 distinct mechanisms: I mentioned that these 3 mechanisms feature more or less strongly in different markets, vary in their […]
We need more data literacy (numeracy)
Now there is, of course, considerable use of mathematical analytics, in many guises, right across the business world. Very clever people doing awesomely sophisticated things with huge amounts of […]
“Prune” a business in trouble to turn it round
A fund management business faced collapse, after some years of successful and profitable growth. (These companies invest your cash in equities and bonds to grow your wealth, often […]