Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
A solution for delivering truly strategic management accounting ?
Part 2 about Strategic Management Accounting, linked to longer articles. These two posts summarise longer papers on “Strategic Management Accounting and Dynamic Business Models“ Get the part-1 paper…
"Strategic Management Accounting" - the need and the challenge!
Accounts want to offer strategic management accounting, but leaders’ needs are diverse and strategy tools are inadequate.
Why do we need AI to develop KPIs?
I see the boffins at MIT and BCG have been hard at work getting AI to figure out “smart KPIs” and “align operations with strategy” – see MIT-Sloan…
Keep the Vandals out of Rome! - how to deter new competitors
It can be so annoying, when you have built a successful business, to have cheeky new me-too rivals come along and try to eat your lunch (Sorry for…
How to make SWOT strategy analysis useful (yes, really!)
It probably dismays strategy academics and experts to know, as they surely do, that their deeply researched and sophisticated frameworks and methods are little used by real-world leadership…
How dogs catch frisbees - how to USE digital-twin models
International Aid programs I recall work for a senior Aid-program leader at the UK’s Dept for International Development (now part of the Foreign Office), showing how dynamic models…
Just HOW poor are spreadsheets for business challenges and planning?
I have often hinted – or more than ‘hinted’ – that spreadsheets are not fit-for-purpose for time-based planning, challenges or initiatives. … so I tried a small exercise…
Feathers and flapping - what business has in common with flying
I’ve talked before about the rock-solid theory behind dynamic business models that enable them to be true digital twins – accurate replicas that both look like and behave…
How competition changes over a market's life
I posted recently about how competition operates through 3 distinct mechanisms: I mentioned that these 3 mechanisms feature more or less strongly in different markets, vary in their…
We need more data literacy (numeracy)
Now there is, of course, considerable use of mathematical analytics, in many guises, right across the business world. Very clever people doing awesomely sophisticated things with huge amounts of…