Kim Warren on Strategy
Strategy insights and living business models
Planning and managing strategic change [C] - transition the staffing
A recent post explained how full strategic change may become essential when technology or other factors threaten to make our current business model obsolete. And the latest post…
Extend your strategy - don't re-invent it
I have made the case before that successful companies do not keep changing their mind about what they do (See ‘position’ is not strategy). What follows is intentionally…
Strategy: position - implementation - operations
You probably know by now that I put a very big importance on the language we use – if we are not clear exactly what it is of…
Intangible business factors are NOT 'qualitative'
A partner in a top strategy consulting firm once told me … “We don’t bother with intangibles in our client work – they are undetectable, unmeasurable, and unmanageable“…
Get real about the price-elasticity of demand
Most readers probably recognise this “economics-101” standard price-elasticity curve. Unfortunately, it only gets anywhere near realistic in the very special case of anonymous commodity markets, so is not…