Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Good Strategy: Bad Strategy. Rumelt

I look forward to any new strategy book, so was thrilled to get “Good Strategy: Bad Strategy” by Prof Rumelt who McKinsey call ”strategy”s strategist”. Big disappointment! “Bad…

Kim Warren

anecdotes, bad strategy, good strategy, mckinsey, Rumelt

· Strategy

Cost reduction and strategy

No surprise I suppose that many companies took the shock of the down-turn to focus on cost-cutting. In What worked in cost cutting—and what’s next? McKinsey’s report of…

Kim Warren

cost cutting, cost reduction, mckinsey, strategic management

· Strategy

Behavioral strategy

Good advice from McKinsey on handling the behavioral issues of strategic decision-making. Important though this is, McK themselves have shown the strategy field offers little rigorous method for…

Kim Warren

behavioral strategy, biases, mckinsey, strategy analysis

· Strategy

Knowledge brokering in open innovation

I strongly recommend a McKinsey article on using knowledge brokering to improve business processes, with some simple but powerful points. E.g. effective business processes are key to performance throughout a…

Kim Warren

business processes., innovations, knowledge brokering, mckinsey, strategic management

· Strategy

Scenarios for all

McKinsey’s Charles Roxburgh offers nicely practical advice on the use and abuse of scenarios. In the process he points out that the latest crisis many firms find themselves…

Kim Warren

crisis, mckinsey, scenarios

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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