Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

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,…

Kim Warren

capabilities, Mckinsey Quarterly, resources, strategy tests

· Strategy

Analysts keep getting it wrong

Equity Analysts: Still Too Bullish in McKQ makes depressing, if unsurprising reading. Analysts continue a decades-long tendency to forecast nearly double the profit growth that actually follows, and…

Kim Warren

body of knowledge, CFA Institute, Chartered Financial Analysts, equity analysts, Mckinsey Quarterly, strategic management, strategy analysis

· Strategy

Usable game theory

Hagen Lindstaedt just alerted me to what looks a smart way of making game theory usable, with a neat link to scenario-based thinking. Probably quite challenging to do, but looks…

Kim Warren

game theory, Hagen Lindstaedt, Mckinsey Quarterly, scenario planning

· Strategy

Better than HBR?

Harvard Business Review may be seen as the gold-standard for leading edge management thinking. But I am increasingly impressed by the quality of other journals. McKinsey Quarterly, of course,…

Kim Warren

harvard business review, Mckinsey Quarterly, sloan management review, strategy+business

· Strategy

Great piece on sustainability and business

Great video  with Adam Werbach, author of Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, shares an adaptation from his book and talks with the McKinsey Quarterly about trading in green…

Kim Warren

Adam Werbach, Mckinsey Quarterly, Strategy, sustainability

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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