Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Strategy isn't "messy"

… and there are general insights. Just jumped on another claim that strategy is too complex,  subtle and case-specific to understand or learn about. (I hope the link…

Kim Warren

acquisitions, complexity, generalisable, over-expansion, strategic, Strategy, subtle, The Strategy Bureau

· Strategy

Are you the best owner of your assets?

With M&A activity recovering, a timely reminder from McKinsey to check out this question. Simple principles, but easily forgotten.

Kim Warren

acquisitions, divestment, M&A, recovery

· Strategy

Building acquisition capability

Good discussion of M&A in strategy+business from Booz. Points out that making acquisitions is, like most other activities, something you get better at with practice, so skilled companies…

Kim Warren

acquisitions, Booz, capability, Cisco, due diligence, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, M&A, strategy+business

· Strategy

More items on strategy in the crisis

Amongst the continuing stream of articles on this, some good ones [I’ve left out some bad or downright dangerous ones] include:

Kim Warren

acquisitions, Aerospace and Defense, BCG, Booz & Co, Boston Consulting Group, cheap assets, consumer products, crisis, emerging markets, Finance, Harvard Business Publishing, HBP, How Recessions Shake Up Industries, Manufacturing, mckinsey, Mckinsey Quarterly, Monitor, scenario planning, Seven Ways Forward, sloan management review, strategic management, strategic planning, Strategy, strategy+business, Surviving the Downturn, Taking Advantage of Tumultuous Times, talent, targeting competitors, Telecom, Three Opportunities to Seize, Timing Strategic Moves, winners and losers

· Strategy

Booz & Co on strategy today

Some sound principles in a brief Memo to the CEO. Particularly good is the focus on opportunity today’s conditions offer for sound firms.

Kim Warren

acquisitions, Booz & Co, CEO, conserving cash, crisis, destroying competitors, M&A, strategic management dynamics, Strategy, strategy+business

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