So the FT reckons companies just need CEOs with “experience”, not strategic competence. Business leaders, politicians, strategy consultants and business schools have been wringing their hands since the 2008 […]
Strategy and the economy
With worries about world economies falling back again, we could reflect on how we got in this mess, and some questions for Strategy. Recessions usually start, I hear, […]
Kindle: The Trouble with Strategy
Strategy is a mess, as most accept, so this book explains why and what might be done about it.
Strategy Dynamics Briefing 32: Fixing resource quality to get out of trouble
Mostly we are concerned with relatively low-stress situations where management wishes to drive faster growth, avoid possible constraints, or reverse declining performance. Sometimes, though, organizations find themselves in crisis, with resources and revenues in sharp decline and financial losses that are worsening so fast as to threaten their survival. Drastic action may be unavoidable…
But what action?
Strategy + Financial Control
Just spoke at the Austrian Financial Controller conference, organised by Contrast, the largest training and consulting firm in the market. “Controlling” in the German-speaking world is already a […]