Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Update on the troubles with strategy
Here’s my latest msg to the B School academics [remember the point of this is to get some useful strategy methods for executives and consultants]. Will let you…
What's the use of strategy tools?
On behalf of executives and consultants who really would like some useful approaches to strategy, I last week issued the following challenge to the Business School profs’ discussion…
Other strategy reviewers
I’m not the only person blogging on business strategy of course – try Googling ‘business strategy blog’ – but hope I’m doing a useful job [tell others if…
Beware new challengers
BCG reports on the companies from rapidly developing economies who are growing fast to join the ranks of the multinational elite.
Decline and recovery by sector
Experienced execs may have a good feel for how their particular industry may evolve during the downturn and recovery – e.g. consumer sectors tend to fall first, but…
Open up to investors
McKinsey quarterly urges executives to embrace transparency if they want to help investors make investment decisions – presumably to invest in their firms. There’s a problem though …
Analysis-based strategy
In Sloan Mgt Review Thomas Davenport of Babson College and Jeanne Harris of Accenture’s Institute For High Performance Business in What People Want Next (and How to Predict…
How good leaders make bad decisions
… and right after the McKinsey survey, HBR has an article by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead (Ashridge) and Sydney Finkelstein (Dartmouth) on neuroscience revelations about how leaders’ judgment…
How companies make good decisions
McKinsey asked senior managers in companies that made good and bad decisions about their decision-making processes: who was involved, what drove the decisions, the analysis done, role of…
Seize Advantage in a Downturn
More (mostly) helpful advice re the downturn from HBR is Seize the advantage in a downturn in which David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter of BCG offer thoughts to…