I realise we should have laid out a robust process for developing and implementing the existing strategy before we talked last time (here) about extending that strategy. First, […]
Extend your strategy – don’t re-invent it
I have made the case before that successful companies do not keep changing their mind about what they do (See ‘position’ is not strategy). What follows is intentionally […]
Building models of growth ‘pipelines’ for key resources – customers, staff, products and assets.
Other posts, such as this one, have explained the basics of how business performance depends on building strategic resources, such as customers, staff, products, capacity – and cash […]
Managing strategy in asset-intensive industries
Learn to build the model in this post here. In today’s digital-obsessed world, it’s easy to forget that we still rely heavily on many boring old asset-intensive industries […]
What drives industry cycles – and how to exploit them
My last post noted the findings that, with very few exceptions, economic recessions are led by cut-backs in the corporate sector, not by households or government. And I […]