business
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Better Business Strategy II: Lessons on Business Model Design from a Dog Sled
Design Thinking has become a something of a fad in business in recent years. But it makes an important contribution to Business Strategy by taking the ‘mish mash’ of initiatives that typically come out of Strategic Planning, reshaping them into focused, coherent and integrated Business Model prototypes, and iteratively testing and refining these prototypes for…
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Better Business Strategy I: Making Sense Strategy Conversations
The notion that Strategic Planning is the ‘one best’ pathway to Strategy is still widely held in many organizations. The problem is that Strategic Planning is typically long on analyses, on ‘laundry lists’ of things to do but short on insight and creativity in understanding and delivering what really matters for Customer and Organization Value…
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Disappointed with Strategic Planning? Try Strategy Conversations in Practice
My experience as a strategy practitioner, researcher, teacher and consultant has convinced me that, rather than providing focused direction, strategy has become overly complicated, fragmented, and confusing. Strategic Plans have become a laundry list of unrelated activities. Everything is strategic………..strategic thinking, strategic execution, strategic courage, even strategic strategies! Strategy has lost its way.
Strategy Conversations In Practice 