Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Briefing

Strategy Dynamics Briefing 30: When resources bring access to others

One specially useful case where resource “attributes” arise is when one resource brings access to other potential resources, most often customers…

Kim Warren

access, Beefeater Microworld, generic structure, IKEA, LoFare Airlines, potential customers, resource attributes, resources, starbucks

· Strategy

Limits to growth

I see that icon of ‘not even the sky is the limit’, Ryanair, is finding gravity still exists. In a curious ‘threat’ to curtail growth, lively CEO O’Leary…

Kim Warren

airlines, over-expansion, Ryanair, starbucks

· Strategy

Aims - growth, survival ...

I made a strong case in a previous post that strategy research should have been asking how strong firms grow cash flows, not deliver profit ratios. I had…

Kim Warren

acquisition, business development, cash flow, Cisco, downturn, growth, profitability, ROIC, starbucks, strategic management, survival

· Strategy

More on growth vs. ROIC

One challenge I got from the academics on the issue of strategy tools’ usefulness was whether growth is still a relevant question in these recessionary times.

Kim Warren

Amazon, growth, profitability, recession, ROIC, starbucks, strategic management

· Strategy

Open up to investors

McKinsey quarterly urges executives to embrace transparency if they want to help investors make investment decisions – presumably to invest in their firms. There’s a problem though …

Kim Warren

business performance, Business Strategy Review, investment decisions, investor relations, Management Discussion and Analysis, Mckinsey Quarterly, MD&A, starbucks

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