Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· digital twin business models

The value of a business, its projects, initiatives and strategy.

Business leaders and their teams need to understand this – and those who build digital-twin business models for them should appreciate the big “answer” that a whole-business model…

Kim Warren

business models, business simulation, business strategy, business valuation, capital asset pricing model, corporate finance, digital twins, digital-twin business model, discounted present value, dynamic business models, free cash flow, silico, strategy valuation, system dynamics, Tim Koller, valuing a business

· Strategy

Stop asking 'What is Strategy?'

Online groups  seem obsessed with asking what Strategy is, and what’s its value. If we don’t know, we can hardly expect others to listen to us. It’s simply…

Kim Warren

free cash flow, NPV, objectives, value of strategy, what is strategy

· Strategy

Exploiting decline

A senior exec taking my course points out a common blind-spot – the strong cash-flow possible in mature/declining sectors. This firm, part of a global business, makes large-volume…

Kim Warren

declining markets, free cash flow, industry rationalisation, mature markets

· Strategy

Beware divesting core business

A rare example of clear and useful academic research from Emilie Feldman at Harvard [but treat it with care – see below]. Emilie “investigates “legacy” divestitures, the sale or spinoff of…

Kim Warren

core business, divestiture, free cash flow, growth, ROIC, transformation

· Strategy

Analysts press for underinvestment

I have noted before that stock analysts need know little about how strategy affects firm performance, so an academic study on the impact of stock analysts on firms’…

Kim Warren

analysts, BellSouth, free cash flow, Kodak, R&D, shareholder value, strategic investment, Verizon

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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