Strategy in tough times

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I have just been asked to include a specific extra section on this in the LBS ADP executive course on which I teach, which reminds me it may be useful to many others, so here’s a very short summary

First, it’s unlikely that making big throws on changing your strategic positioning will help much – it may even be damaging. Sure, you might get a bit of revenue support from adding or moving to a slightly lower-priced proposition as ...

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More executive sense on ‘knowledge’

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Harald Borner, global head of talent at SAP points out that they have every conceivable technology tool to collect and share knowledge, and help people find out anything they may need to know  … but none of that counts if people aren’t motivated and skilled to access and make use of it. He also points out that there can be too much of a good thing – lots of discussion groups, Wikis etc etc get going but people just don’t take ...

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