Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

· Strategy

Make your strategy resilient

How to Prepare for a Black Swan in strategy+business offers good advice to assess exposure to disruptive events, but misses key elements a strategy can and should cover. In…

Kim Warren

Black Swan, business, business risk, business strategy disruption, ratio management, resilience, strategy+business, utilities

· Strategy

Sense-and-Adjust - and Create

It Makes Sense to Adjust in strategy+business describes a simple process that any decently-led organisation should be using: “sensing” to detect changes and assess their likely impact, then…

Kim Warren

adjusting, burning platform, resources and capabilities, sense-and-adjust, sensing, strategic planning, strategy+business

· Strategy

Where's the Board?

We’ve seen a few gung-ho CEOs mess up, especially but not exclusively in banking, but ‘Boards of Prevention‘ in strategy+business asks what the heck the supervisory Board is doing to…

Kim Warren

risk, Strategy, strategy+business, The Board, threats

· Strategy

IT & Enterprise Architecture

strategy+business explains how IT works best when tied closely to business goals, which using an Enterprise Architecture  helps ensure. Though the article explains little of what exactly an EA is, there’s…

Kim Warren

enterprise architecture, goals, IT strategy, policies, strategic architecture, strategy maps, strategy+business

· Strategy

Growth through focus

I’ve posted before on how often firms over-expand and over-extend themselves*. Growth through Focus in strategy+business warns of the same danger, and explains how “companies should follow a…

Kim Warren

focus, strategic management, strategy+business

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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