Kim Warren on Strategy

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· Strategy

Sustained growth: a challenge

We’ve noted before that strategy is about delivering earnings growth, not hitting ROIC ratios, but it seems that’s not easy. In Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times, Chris Zook and James Allen, coleaders of Bain’s global strategy practice, find that just 12% of companies grew revenues and…

Kim Warren

Bain & Co, profitable growth, ROIC, strategic management, value creation

· Strategy

Six industry reviews

Bain & Co offer good reviews of strategic imperatives in chemicals, retail banking, consumer packaged goods, engineered products and services, oil and gas, and technology – with supporting reports on each. Well worth a a look if you are in any of these, but also some useful insights applicable to other sectors. Chemicals,…

Kim Warren

Bain & Co, chemicals, consumer packaged goods, downturn, engineered products and services, industry change, oil and gas, retail banking, strategic management, technology sector

· Strategy

Other consultants' warnings on the downturn

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 check out the other big consulting firms. Not so easy, as they mostly don’t publish their own views quite so firmly or…

Kim Warren

Bain & Co, Bain Briefs, BCG, Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group, downturn, GBN, Global Business Network, mckinsey, Monitor Group, publications, strategic management, strategy+business

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