Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Courses using Strategy Dynamics
We would be delighted to hear of courses that use the strategy dynamics approach please do leave your name, organisation and a link to your course!
Size not what matters in R&D spending
Interesting to see from Booz Allen’s journal strategy+business that there’s no guarantee of getting innovation success from spending more on R&D – the most successful companies seem to…
Myth 3: Find a better position
This one goes back for ever. Management is supposed to spend their time on strategy searching for a better ‘position’ than rivals – some combination of who they…
On-line classes in progress - first run soon.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. In between turkey and Christmas pud we have been getting on with the class materials for the on-line course in strategy…
Managing Professional Service firms
Just had a notification of a forthcoming web-briefing on this from Harvard Business School to be led by Professor Thomas DeLong, co-author of When Professionals Have to Lead.…
New book from Robert Kaplan
Just scanned Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing [TDABC] from Robert Kaplan – of balanced score-card fame – and Steven Anderson, thinking it might link to the strategy dynamics idea of…
Short video intros for executives and teachers
If you would rather watch than read, Wiley kindly arranged to take some short videos about the book, one for executives and professionals, and another for strategy teachers.
Myth 2: It's all about profitability
Here’s another that just jumps out of the strategy books and articles. Strong performance, it is said, shows up in higher profitability [return on sales or invested capital].…
Videos of the book launch at London Business School
We had a great time with the book launch yesterday evening. Here are some short videos with me, Steve Hardman from Wiley and James McDonnell at PWC who…
Book cover - revenge of the prey!
Many people love the book cover .. thanks to Mark Styles at Wiley for that! But my friend Lars Finskud at Vanguard Strategy spotted a new take on…