Given all the hard work that true experts put into building powerful solutions to strategy challenges, it is truly depressing how easily folk are seduced by sexy-sounding slogans. […]
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There’s much more to “strategy” than the business plan (B)
More on that push-back from a strategy expert, challenging my claim that the issues below are all unavoidable parts of managing an organisation’s strategy. Strategy – they say […]
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There’s much more to ‘strategy’ than the business plan (A)
I got challenged for my claim that the issues in this figure are all unavoidably parts of managing strategy. Strategy, they say, is only about Formulation and creating […]
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Abductive strategy building – beats hypothesis-testing
My last post noted that hypothesis-testing is recommended as a scientific and efficient method for developing strategy – or maybe figuring out what’s going wrong. But that post […]
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Hypothesis-driven strategy building – we can do better
A few times in the past, experienced consultants have told me how they use a “hypothesis-driven” approach to figure out strategy recommendations for clients. In summary, this means […]