HBR explains how judgement underperforms simple algorithms for many issues – strategy algorithms exist, at least implicitly. Recent decades have seen human intuition progressively replaced with proven rules, procedures or […]
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McKinsey Tests of Strategy
I’m not a big fan of checklists, but Have you tested your strategy lately? offers useful tests for checking the quality of a strategy. The list also makes some assumptions, […]
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Skills and capabilities
Capabilities clearly enable performance – if your organization can do key tasks, faster, cheaper or better than others, then you will develop stronger resources in a more powerful system […]
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Strategy – a troubled discipline
Managers may not know or care, but this really matters. I’ve argued for professional strategic management before [search the archive], but if there’s a crisis in the discipline […]
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Capability-based strategy: beware ‘core competences’.
How to win by changing the game by head of Booz N America business Cesare Mainardi, and colleagues Paul Leinwand and Steffen Lauster makes a strong case for building […]