Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Don't copy what's not relevant
A nice word of caution from strategy+business magazine about looking for magic strategy answers by peering into the ways of superstars. In The Google Enigma, they point out…
Coping with the downturn
Many companies may find some of the articles in the latest e-issue of the McKinsey Quarterly to be helpful, such as ‘Market fundamentals: 2000 versus 2007‘ and ‘Learning…
Oh no - not 'change' again !
The latest from McKinsey Quarterly is yet another fire-hosing about ‘driving radical change’, ‘transformation without crisis’, etc. etc. Radical change is very rarely needed, most often destructive, and…
Why business ignores the business schools
This FT article regrettably makes public what can no longer be kept as private grief within the business schools – and Strategy is amongst the wp_ offenders !…
Size not what matters in R&D spending
Interesting to see from Booz Allen’s journal strategy+business that there’s no guarantee of getting innovation success from spending more on R&D – the most successful companies seem to…