Business Model
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Strategic Reviews Are Like Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
Strategic Reviews hinge on the misguided notion that planning and strategy are the same thing. Instead continuously reconfigure strategy choices by routinely holding Revising Strategy Conversations
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Organizational Value — Economic, Social, Environmental – Balancing Choices on a Barbed Wire Fence
Businesses are under increasing pressure to better integrate Social and Environmental considerations into their mainstream Customer and Organization Value Creation activities, to do well and do goodsimultaneously. Neither Strategic Planning nor the ESG movement provide an adequate framework for integrating the complex choices involved or for balancing the trade-offs that these choices present to strategy practitioners.…
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Doing Everything Is Not Strategy
Strategy Conversations In Practice recognize that Customers buy products or services to address a Job that they want done or a Problem that they want solved. Firms need to clearly understand this Job or Problem in terms of its discrete Value Dimensions, and choose which Dimensions it will address, where it will excel, where it will…
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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 