The Future of Strategy
A Transformative Approach to Strategy for a World that Won’t Stand Still Leaders today are inundated with strategic opportunities, besieged by business disruptions, and pressured …
StrategyFrom plans to guiding organizational energy
Strategy has been forced to take a back seat. Over 80% of people now believe "agility" is at par or more important than strategy for future business success. It is time to take strategy back and make it better than ever before
The History of Strategy
From The Art of War to The War for Talent, strategy has been evolving for centuries. What we have learned in the past 2,500 years …
Reinventing Consulting
Charles Schwab used the Internet to take the trading industry to the next level. Now Collaborative and Social Technologies are doing the same for parts …
ChangeEnergy for Change
We face more change than ever before - fortunately there is help
The Future of Change
The best way to fix change management is simply to prevent it Regular readers of the Harvard Business Review will have stumbled on the advert …
Energy for Change
Many large transformation efforts don’t live up to their expectations. Not because their design was flawed, but because there was insufficient capacity to make it …
Capacity for Change
There is a lot of good advice and practices out there on change and transformation. Change remains however one of the most challenging aspects of …
OrganizationThe Future of Human Capital
Our traditional organizational structures and ways of working don't really cut it anymore in today's dynamic business environments. Modular value chains, fickle talent, collaborative technologies, processes from the cloud, and much more have had their impact on organizations. Change is not necessary, survival is optional
Iconicity
Turn your Organisation into an Icon What do the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, restaurant elBulli, and the All Blacks rugby team have in common? All three are …
Unleashing your organization’s true brainpower
The most valuable knowledge in your organization resides inside your people’s heads. The only way to get access to it is to let your people …
The Future of Human Capital
When talent retention is not the answer When the best talent today create careers by pursuing a progressive sequence of professional challenges across multiple companies …
Strategy & OrganizationThe Leveraged Corporation
The vertically integrated business is past its sell by date and has become too compromised. It is time for a new model; the leveraged corporation
The Battle of the Value Chains
Modular Value Chains mean that more specialized value delivery systems can be crafted without running into scale disadvantages. It also means that one-size-fits-all value chains …
Resources for Growth
Modular Value Chains means plug ‘n play strategy deployment. This also means that having access to competitive resources becomes more important than owning them. New …
Designing the Leveraged Organization
With significantly more modular value chains and plug ‘n play business dynamics, the days of the integrated Strategic Business Unit are numbered. Instead, a more …
VariousAssorted articles, perspectives, and books
The Perfect Storm in Healthcare
Health care is challenged in many countries. Aging populations, unhealthy life styles, and growing health expectations are driving up costs. This puts health care in …
Talent to the Rescue
Job-hopping talent and an apparent erosion of talent loyalty appear to be the most pressing challenges for Strategic Resource Management. What if the opposite is …
Consumer Agony
The Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry appears to suffer least from the current recession. This does not mean everything stays the same however. Consumers are …
Transformation 2.0
Change is often hard work and success is not at all guaranteed. Fortunately help is coming our way. Social media have become much more accepted …
Collaboration – But not as we know it
The relationship between Suppliers and Retailers has evolved over time. Now we reached a point where the biggest (implied) supplier is actually a retailer. Needless …
Not so fast – Rethinking Merger Rationale
Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated …
The Board’s role in Strategy Development
Corporate governance has been the subject of many and intense discussion in recent years. Spurred by scandals involving companies such as Enron, Ahold, Worldcom and …
Learning a new Complexity Language
Complexity generally has a negative connotation. For some parts of the Value Chain however, complexity represents a true source of value. Better understanding of the …
Make or Buy: New Questions – New Answers
Fragmentation of Value Chains means hard work for vertically integrated companies as they have to routinely modularize individual parts of the Value Chain. This makes …
Modular Value Chains
Much has been written on the real impact of the Internet: its ability to break up value chains through the interaction efficiency it provides. Although …
The Digital Springboard
Digitization and connectivity have provided a solid source of business process innovation making companies more competitive. In some cases this can be taken even further …