Whether a skeptic or not, any CEO should check their strategy is OK if global warming does turn out to be real. Who, doing business in Pakistan, assessed the…

We’ve seen a few gung-ho CEOs mess up, especially but not exclusively in banking, but ‘Boards of Prevention‘ in strategy+business asks what the heck the supervisory Board is doing to…

We all know this ideal is far from reality, but in Is Decision-Based Evidence Making Necessarily Bad?, Sloan Mgmt Review offers 3 levels to define the role of evidence:

I’ve noted before the dangers of amateur, gut-feel strategy, so a new MIT Sloan Mgmt Review newsletter on the ‘Intelligent Enterprise‘ aims to explain analytical ways to exploit the…

strategy+business explains how IT works best when tied closely to business goals, which using an Enterprise Architecture  helps ensure. Though the article explains little of what exactly an EA is, there’s…

How many firms are currently failing dismally to deliver cash-flow growth because of an obsession with cost-cutting ? The depressing focus on cost ratios features yet again in…

I’ve posted before on how often firms over-expand and over-extend themselves*. Growth through Focus in strategy+business warns of the same danger, and explains how “companies should follow a…

You may have noticed that I have had problems with the blog recently –  as with many of these things one starts with high optimism but eventually a…

Equity Analysts: Still Too Bullish in McKQ makes depressing, if unsurprising reading. Analysts continue a decades-long tendency to forecast nearly double the profit growth that actually follows, and…

Mintzberg’s keynote role at a conference on the MBA is a worry, but his latest foray into strategy is too serious to let pass. In Management by Reflection in…