Kim Warren on Strategy

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MIT on Intelligent Enterprise

Analytics: the New path to Value reports on what leading firms are doing with analytics. It offers five big recommendations. Whilst reasonable enough, they raise more questions than answers: Focus on the biggest and highest value opportunities – should be easy enough in most cases, though blind-spots are common ..…

Kim Warren

analytics, Intelligent Enterprise, MIT, sloan management review

· Strategy

Intelligent Enterprise, not amateurism

I’ve noted before the dangers of amateur, gut-feel strategy, so a new MIT Sloan Mgmt Review newsletter on the ‘Intelligent Enterprise‘ aims to explain analytical ways to exploit the ‘data deluge’, rather than get drowned in it. I’ll sign up and alert you to any especially helpful item.

Kim Warren

analytics, data deluge, Intelligent Enterprise, sloan management review

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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, has long produced solid content based on work with major clients, or else on serious research from their Global Institute, and other big…

Kim Warren

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

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More on sustainability and strategy

Two solid pieces on strategy implications from sustainability. The Business of Sustainability report from BCG reviews the impact the issue is having on companies and how it is affecting their strategic management. Most now see it as far more than just the latest fad and potentially a big factor in their future success…

Kim Warren

Better Place, GE, Nike, Rio Tinto, sloan management review, Strategy, sustainability, wal-mart

· Strategy

More items on strategy in the crisis

Amongst the continuing stream of articles on this, some good ones [I’ve left out some bad or downright dangerous ones] include:

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acquisitions, Aerospace and Defense, BCG, Booz & Co, Boston Consulting Group, cheap assets, consumer products, crisis, emerging markets, Finance, Harvard Business Publishing, HBP, How Recessions Shake Up Industries, Manufacturing, mckinsey, Mckinsey Quarterly, Monitor, scenario planning, Seven Ways Forward, sloan management review, strategic management, strategic planning, Strategy, strategy+business, Surviving the Downturn, Taking Advantage of Tumultuous Times, talent, targeting competitors, Telecom, Three Opportunities to Seize, Timing Strategic Moves, winners and losers

· Strategy

Testing assumptions

An interview with Dan Ariely in Sloan Mgmt Review points up the need to test assumptions – critical, of course, and can’t fault Dan’s case. But doing as he asks on serious strategic decisions is not so easy.

Kim Warren

Dan Ariely, scenario planning, sloan management review, strategic decisions, strategic management, strategy dynamics, testing assumptions

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