A timely reminder to be disciplined about the businesses in your corporate portfolio – especially now there may be tempting bargains to be picked up at apparently bargain […]
The ‘resource-based view’ of strategy?
I have just come back from an academic mini-conference looking at the resource-based view of strategy [RBV]. Though this has been around for about 20 years, and increasingly […]
More on Starbucks’ over expansion.
I see in the Economist that Starbucks will close a further 500 stores in America (in addition to the 100 closures it announced earlier this year), and reduce […]
What is Strategy?
I recently had cause to re-read the Michael Porter classic ‘What is Strategy?’ [Harvard Business Review Nov-Dec 1996, pp. 61-78] – great of course on strategic positioning, which […]
Crafting strategy?
I was reminded by a recent conference of the one-time popularity of the idea that strategy is ‘crafted’ by leaders, rather than planned [we can thank Henry Mintzberg […]