Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Balanced Scorecards are great - but we can go so much further with digital twin business models.

It’s hard to recall the impact that Balanced Scorecard (BSC) had in the first couple of decades after it hit the business world. For the first time, leaders were offered a method that joined up what happens across the organisation and connected those activities to the winning of customers and…

Kim Warren

action plans, balanced scorecard, business model, business models, business simulation, business strategy, digital twin, digital twins, digital-twin business model, dynamic business models, Kaplan and Norton, silico, strategy dynamics, strategy maps, strategy models, system dynamics

· Strategy

Another dot-com bubble?

Back in 1999 I got booed for saying the dot-com boom was mostly hot air, after which the NASDAQ dropped from 1000 to 200. The Economist now warns of a 2nd bubble,with private equity and big corporates falling over each other to throw cash at anything web-ish. Many of the…

Kim Warren

analysts, boom and bust, business model, CFA, dot-com, economist, private equity

· Courses and events

How firms are coping

Mixed news from a recent S+B survey of execs. 75% say they do not need extra financial support – as I suspected – though that may change of course.  More worrying is that most seem not to be taking the correct actions, given their specific situations.

Kim Warren

acquisition, Booz, business model, downturn, financial crisis, Neil McArthur, over-capacity, rationalisation, S+B, Shumeet Banerji, strategic management, strategy+business

· Strategy

Good & bad downturn advice

I have commented on some of the consultants’ and journals’ advice in earlier posts, so thought I would share what some senior execs think who I’ve been asking in recent events. Here’s just a few … 

Kim Warren

acquisition, advice, business model, buy assets, Consolidate support functions, consultants, core business, crisis, de-layer, downturn, hire talent, management journals, strategic initiatives

· 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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