… and there are general insights. Just jumped on another claim that strategy is too complex, subtle and case-specific to understand or learn about. (I hope the link […]
Strategy Dynamics Briefing 51: Type-2 rivalry – capturing competitors’ customers
Type-2 rivalry can be explained by taking the coffee store example from Briefing 50 forward in time to a point where all potential customers have been captured; that is, when the market is mature. The two stores have …
Why so many Tablet makers?
This LinkedIn exchange asks why so many new entrants start up in growth industries when it’s obvious that most will fail. Another big case : during 2000-09 Europe added about […]
Strategy to performance
We can’t get a profit forecast out of strategy tools because they offer no path to an action plan, but an article in the UK Telegraph paper is one […]
McKinsey Tests of Strategy
I’m not a big fan of checklists, but Have you tested your strategy lately? offers useful tests for checking the quality of a strategy. The list also makes some assumptions, […]