Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Get strategic planning right
Useful reminder to avoid flaws in strategic planning in HBP’s Management Essentials. Especially good to see the first item: Don’t skip rigorous analysis. Don’t think strategy can be…
Corporate Portolio Management
Just been made aware of CPM – may be useful to strategic management. It seems to have come from the challenge of deciding and managing multiple, large-scale projects…
Good strategy from big listed firms
I have been tough on the poor strategy seen over both of the last two boom-bust cycles, so good to see in Sensible Giants from the Economist that the…
More items on strategy in the crisis
Amongst the continuing stream of articles on this, some good ones [I’ve left out some bad or downright dangerous ones] include:
MBAs not learning to avoid crises
In MBA Students Aren’t Learning to Avoid Future Crises from Net Impact, 90% surveyed blame short-term business focus for the crisis … and fewer than a quarter think their…
The balanced scorecard
A large Management Development community I track has been discussing how we could have prepared people better for the current troubles, and some have advocated the Balanced Scorecard…
Online environment changing competition
Digital Darwinism by Christopher Vollmer in strategy+business plays to my view of strategy as making order-of-magnitude impact, not the percentage incrementalism that constrains much management thinking.
'Gestures', not strategy
It’s hard enough dealing with current difficulties in a strategically sound way, but it’s not helped by actions that are pointless or counter-productive – examples below. Some of these…
Testing assumptions
An interview with Dan Ariely in Sloan Mgmt Review points up the need to test assumptions – critical, of course, and can’t fault Dan’s case. But doing as he asks…
The crisis - ethics or competence?
See http://www.strategydynamics.com/strategy-lessons. Background follows …