Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Multi-business strategy dynamics
Extending the strategy dynamics principles to related businesses is essentially simple. If a single business is a system of customers, products, capacity, people and cash, then a multi-business corporation could…
Health: less "R", more "D"
Much modeling is done in NHS to understand issues, but few developed solutions on offer. I just left the Press launch for the Cumberland Initiative – an effort to…
Diverse case examples
Our online course (will run again) has cases in shipping, IT, retail, mining, brewing … will post more soon on some of these. This is a remarkable variety in a class…
Online classes 6-10 Jan
See http://strategydynamics.com/winter-school.aspx. A few places remain for this chance to get some personal guidance on how strategy dynamics can help in your own situation.
Weather hits utilities
See class and model on asset strategy and a paper and model on risk/resilience, for my colleague and utility expert Bob Thurlby. More … Recent bad UK weather has caused another round of…
Managing messes
Making the Most of Mess suggests we manage strategy/policy the same way control engineers manage complex physical systems … which is exactly what system dynamics has made possible for…
Precision agriculture (PA) roll-out
Precision-agriculture means using fertiliser+pesticides+water exactly where needed, based on soil and crop conditions detected by satellite or ground sensors. An exec student, Brian Evarts at Cisco, just completed a fascinating…
Cisco webinar SD intro and examples
See talk given to Cisco leaders. Includes summary of the method and software + examples in IT. Contents list and timings as follows: 0min : 0sec The method and software…
Strategy algorithms beat judgement
HBR explains how judgement underperforms simple algorithms for many issues – strategy algorithms exist, at least implicitly. Recent decades have seen human intuition progressively replaced with proven rules, procedures or…
Benchmarking danger!
Big accounting firm asked about staffing models [see video, from time 22.00 ] to replace dumb benchmarking [that is: best-in-class leverage – partners:juniors ratios – for each type of business?] Benchmarking is…