Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
The value of a business, its projects, initiatives and strategy.
Business leaders and their teams need to understand this – and those who build digital-twin business models for them should appreciate the big “answer” that a whole-business model…
Three sources of sales growth
One of the simplest but most powerful frameworks in the Strategy Dynamics method is the structure that drives sales growth. An example shows how this works … A…
Re-usable and continuing solutions: Most models are not Kleenex!
A McKinsey expert once told me “A dynamic model is like Kleenex – use it to fix an issue, then throw it away“. Now some digital twin business models…
Common structures and business models apply to MANY cases, making digital twins faster to build and more reliable
Some small causal structures arise and work reliably in many cases to capture how things change. And businesses in many sectors share completely standard structures. Using standard structures saves…
Exploiting industry dynamics to win in a falling market
There’s money to be made in declining markets – especially if you can exploit rivals who don’t understand what you do. So model out how you can play…
When a digital twin business model tells you something you didn't know
I often tell students “If the model’s behaviour doesn’t match reality, there’s something wrong, so fix it before moving on” I should add that one of two things…
Beat competitors - take out the "loose bricks" in their wall
You can beat a competitor by taking out the “loose bricks” in their wall – customers, products, even staff – that are most easily taken, but valuable, until…
"What is this 'digital twin' thing any way?"
Since posting about our digital twin business models recently, many people have asked “What the heck is this digital twin thing any way?” or even “How on earth…
"How do I get to a digital-twin KPI-system from my current KPIs?"
I made the case in another post that a digital twin business model IS the KPI system that explains how the business is performing, and will likely perform…
When waking up dormant customers offers more opportunity than winning new ones
A mid-scale corporate law-firm asked for help on a business development challenge. Their partners were, naturally, working hard at finding and winning new clients. They were having some…