Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Deliberate practice

Strategy+business article says this works, but not for long-term things – yes we can, with games built on sound simulations! The article uses lots of sporting examples to show that the formal technique of deliberate practice can dramatically improve performance, then goes on to explain where it can’t be done or will…

Kim Warren

business games, deliberate practice, repeatable models, S+B, simulation, strategic management, strategy dynamics, system dynamics

· Strategy

Mintzberg's destruction of Strategy

Mintzberg’s keynote role at a conference on the MBA is a worry, but his latest foray into strategy is too serious to let pass. In Management by Reflection in S+B he continues his age-old mantra that teaching MBAs to work stuff out is pointless if not dangerous. He once sneeringly noted that…

Kim Warren

executive education, Henry Mintzberg, MBA, professions, S+B, strategic management, strategy classes, strategy+business

· Courses and events

How firms are coping

Mixed news from a recent S+B survey of execs. 75% say they do not need extra financial support – as I suspected – though that may change of course.  More worrying is that most seem not to be taking the correct actions, given their specific situations.

Kim Warren

acquisition, Booz, business model, downturn, financial crisis, Neil McArthur, over-capacity, rationalisation, S+B, Shumeet Banerji, strategic management, strategy+business

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