The world’s biggest basic materials firms are suffering along with others as the world economy collapses, and the Economist points out that taking on loads of debt to…

How to win by changing the game by head of Booz N America business Cesare Mainardi, and colleagues Paul Leinwand and Steffen Lauster makes a strong case for building…

Just set this up, so you can get a short [140 character] start to each post on your mobile etc. www.twitter.com/kimwarren – if you find this or the…

More from McKinsey on this, including a review on some useful thinking from last time.

I realise I’ve focused on what McKinsey has had to say on the downturn, and especially on the failure to warn of the subprime nonsense, so thought I should…

Following a couple of posts on sustainability, it’s interesting to find at least one dedicated MBA in the topic, at Presidio School of Management [who also offer shorter…

Great seminar last week by my colleague Bruce Hardie at London Business School on the complications involved in the simple idea of customer churn. Bruce probably knows more…

Had a couple of interesting contacts on this last week. Seems senior executives in general certainly ‘want to do what’s right’, but face two difficulties. First, it’s not…

Whilst I greatly admire Prof Clay Christensen’s work, and this one in Harvard Business review with colleagues Mark Johnson and Henning Kagermann is good guidance in some cases,…

I’ve been posting on strategy in the downturn for a while now, but what makes me really angry is the strategic incompetence that led to this mess [search…