Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Coping with the downturn
Many companies may find some of the articles in the latest e-issue of the McKinsey Quarterly to be helpful, such as ‘Market fundamentals: 2000 versus 2007‘ and ‘Learning…
All good things ... ?
Pity to see that long-rising star, Starbucks, in trouble over the last year or so. Specially intriguing to see the similarities with the MacDonalds’ trouble around 2005 –…
Strategic incompetence continued
… and now we see Merrill Lynch in the same trouble, so perhaps they could answer the same question we put to Citigroup. Meanwhile, here in the UK,…
Strategic incompetence
Interesting to see that Citigroup may take a further multi-billion dollar hit as a further consequence of the sub-prime lending fiasco. Now nothing makes me angrier than strategic…
Oh no - not 'change' again !
The latest from McKinsey Quarterly is yet another fire-hosing about ‘driving radical change’, ‘transformation without crisis’, etc. etc. Radical change is very rarely needed, most often destructive, and…
Courses, Forum, video - gasp!
Everything seems to be happening at once round here. Having got the book out … and decided to rebuild the MBA course entirely around it … and record…
Why business ignores the business schools
This FT article regrettably makes public what can no longer be kept as private grief within the business schools – and Strategy is amongst the wp_ offenders !…
US diabetes data in chapters 1 and 6
The data in chapter 1 reports the numbers of diabetes cases diagnosed, whereas chapter 6 looks at the likely development in total numbers of cases, including estimated numbers…
NEW - Strategic Management Dynamics Forum
We have just launched a NEW forum for this area and encourage you to join the community conversation. I have added links on the StrategyDynamics website and the book…
Strategy and leadership
I see the latest Harvard Business Review (Jan 08) includes a nice piece from Cynthia Montgomery on ‘Putting leadership back into strategy‘. It makes important points … that…