Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Briefing

Strategy Dynamics Briefing 67: Steering strategy and performance

Although it is common to distinguish strategy development from strategy implementation, it is not generally advisable to develop strategy first, then switch to implementing it. Not only is it impossible to know everything in advance but conditions continue to change as events unfold.

Kim Warren

decision-making, decisions, performance, steering strategy, strategy adjustment

· Strategy

Evidence-based decision-making

We all know this ideal is far from reality, but in Is Decision-Based Evidence Making Necessarily Bad?, Sloan Mgmt Review offers 3 levels to define the role of evidence:

Kim Warren

decision-making, evidence-based management, Sloan Mgmt Review, strategic decisions

· Strategy

Facts on MBA relevance

Strategy and decision-making simply get too little attention, according to latest solid evidence on this topic, in an academic paper too. How Relevant Is the MBA? [details below] took the simple…

Kim Warren

decision-making, managerial competencies, managerial relevance, MBA courses, strategic management

· Strategy

How good leaders make bad decisions

… and right after the McKinsey survey, HBR has an article by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead (Ashridge) and Sydney Finkelstein (Dartmouth) on neuroscience revelations about how leaders’ judgment…

Kim Warren

analysis, Andrew Campbell, Ashridge, business benefits, Dartmouth, decision-making, harvard business review, HBR, Jo Whitehead, mckinsey, neuroscience, strategic decisions, Sydney Finkelstein

· Strategy

How companies make good decisions

McKinsey asked senior managers in companies that made good and bad decisions about their decision-making processes: who was involved, what drove the decisions, the analysis done, role of…

Kim Warren

analysis, business benefits, decision-making, evidence-based management, mckinsey, strategic decisions

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