Strategy as design
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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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The Strategy Conversations Framework — Better Strategy, Better Results
Strategy Conversations In Practice are very different to the ritual rain dance that is Strategic Planning. Strategy Conversations ARE continuous dialogue on the choices an organization makes or might make to create Customer Value and to share in that value. Strategy Conversations ARE a learning loop of four distinct but interconnected, iterative, and reflective stages…
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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 