Good to see some thoughtful stuff on innovation amongst the general encouragement to just do it more and better.  Alexander Kandybin in strategy+business looks at the really tough…

I have sometimes made the point that ‘market forecasts’ are of little value as a start-point for strategy development [ sorry to the folk who make a living…

Have had a few people ask for more examples of real projects with strategy dynamics delivering value – so did a webinar on that a couple of days ago…

Interesting to see a McKinsey survey confirming that the HR function is not regarded by management as having much to offer to strategy, which is more than a…

Shame on my friend Eric Beinhocker of McKinsey Global Institute, interviewed in a TV programme The Genius of Darwin with arch-evolutionist Richard Dawkins.  Eric unfortunately likened the emergence…

Quite by coincidence I see strategy+business reports efforts by a different industry than power utilities to wrestle with the aging workfoce problem. S&B report that the serious shortage…

I see consumer groups are squealing that even water companies [with no excuse from rising oil prices] are asking for above-inflation price rises. Why? – because they have…

Had a call from a star student now with a major power utility. Seems they are worried about their aging workforce. Think you share this problem? – how…

I know I go on about how strategy professionals should have anticipated the current difficult conditions instead of piling on with unsustainable growth [especially in the banking sector’.…

Shame about the housing recession both sides of the pond. Over in the US of course, this was largely created by the strategic imcompetence of banks’ whizzy sub-prime…