Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

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BCG on Simulation Advantage

This ‘Perspectives‘ paper makes a strong case for how firms can move from costly experimentation, e.g. for new products, to simulation of new opportunities and other business changes. It’s at a more operational level than simulation of overall strategy or major strategic initiatives, but the examples offered make clear just…

Kim Warren

BCG, Boston Consulting Group, business opportunities, experimentation, simulation, Strategy

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BCG's Competing for Advantage

The Global Advantage Diamond from BCG looks useful to diagnose competitive advantage in rapidly developing economies (RDEs). It maps four issues – market access, resource access, local adaptation and network coordination – to produce a diamond map relative strengths of you and competitors. 

Kim Warren

BCG, Boston Consulting Group, competitive advantage, Global Advantage Diamond, rapidly developing economies, strategy tools

· Strategy

Business model innovation: BMI

A clear and practical paper from BCG explains nicely what a business model is, what ‘innovating’ it means, and when and how to do it. The only caveat is the superior total shareholder returns it claims comes from BMI innovators vs. traditional innovators – it likely excludes BMI innovators who…

Kim Warren

BCG, BMI, business model innovation, transformation

· 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:

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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

Beware new challengers

BCG reports on the companies from rapidly developing economies who are growing fast to join the ranks of the multinational elite. 

Kim Warren

BCG, Boston Consulting Group, competitive threats, emerging economies, strategic management, undermine competitors

· Strategy

Seize Advantage in a Downturn

More (mostly) helpful advice re the downturn from HBR is Seize the advantage in a downturn in which David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter of BCG offer thoughts to stabilize your business and find opportunities … but beware!

Kim Warren

BCG, Boston Consulting Group, business model, competitive advantage, competitive strategy, cost cutting, Daniel Stelter, David Rhodes, down-turn, harvard business review, HBR, organizational memory, rivals

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