Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

New book-opening

Just updated the revised opening for chapter 1 of Strategic Management Dynamics, which you can download from www.strategydynamics.com/smd-new-start. This includes an important correction to the explanation of free cash-flow on p.27 that was unfortunately introduced when the document was laid out – apologies. Reminder – This document reviews through some…

Kim Warren

free cash flow, strategic management dynamics, strategy dynamics, textbook

· Strategy

Corporate Portolio Management

Just been made aware of CPM – may be useful to strategic management. It seems to have come from the challenge of deciding and managing multiple, large-scale projects in sectors such as defence, IT and construction.

Kim Warren

construction, Corporate Portolio Management, CPM Association, defence, IT, LinkedIn, project management, strategic management dynamics

· Strategy

The balanced scorecard

A large Management Development community I track has been discussing how we could have prepared people better for the current troubles, and some have advocated the Balanced Scorecard [BSC]. I have used BSC in strategy teaching for some years, and come across BSCs in many companies. My impression is that,…

Kim Warren

analyzing competition, balanced scorecard, crisis, downturn, forecasting, performance indicators, performance targets, scenarios, strategic management, strategic management dynamics, strategy maps

· Strategy

Booz & Co on strategy today

Some sound principles in a brief Memo to the CEO. Particularly good is the focus on opportunity today’s conditions offer for sound firms.

Kim Warren

acquisitions, Booz & Co, CEO, conserving cash, crisis, destroying competitors, M&A, strategic management dynamics, Strategy, strategy+business

· Strategy

Strategy in health-care

I see Booz Allen organised a Diabetes Thought Leader Roundtable Discussion, bringing together diverse groups to discuss this major healthcare challenge. Strategy for such societal issues is especially challenging vs. corporate cases precisely because of the multiple actors and agencies involved. An integrated model of how these all interact is…

Kim Warren

Booz Allen, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Diabetes, Drew Jones, Jack Homer, public health, public sector, strategic management, strategic management dynamics, Sustainability Institute, system dynamics

· Strategy

Strategy in asset-heavy firms + model

the Economist says Mr Obama plans big spend to fix US infrastructure. Origins of problems that led to bridges collapsing, water mains bursting, and massive sewage leaks are easy to see – politicians can always put off long-term investment in favour of short-term give-aways. But CEOs face similar temptations. Read…

Kim Warren

asset-based industries, capital investment, economist, gas, Government investment, mystrategy, oil, power, simulation, steel, strategic management, strategic management dynamics, strategy dynamics, water

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