Amazon.com: The Shape of Strategy to come
Over the course of 20 short years, Amazon.com has successfully pioneered and invested in many new ways of operating and introduced several new business models. …
Is Strategy Breaking Up With its BFFs?
Watching my teenage daughters doing their homework the other day, I suddenly realised that they had replaced their BFFs for something much more powerful: various …
Are We Really Looking for Flexible Corporate Strategies?
A recent article in the Financial Times by Andrew Hill—“Wanted: Flexible Corporate Strategies for Fast Times”—painted a not-so-rosy picture of the effectiveness of strategic frameworks …
It is Scenario Planning, but not as We Know It
The interest in scenario planning has been on the rise over the last decade and, in the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, …
Don’t Let Data Analyses Hold Your Strategy Back
When it comes to strategy, we simply love data analyses. Nothing is so reassuring as to anchor a strategy in robust, fact-based analyses. We have …
New Year’s Resolutions for Strategy
Many of us have started the New Year with intentions to do a number of things differently that will in some way make us better …
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 …
Customer Centricity is Overrated (as a substitute for Strategy)
Customers are undeniably hot today in business. It would appear that, in order to drive an innovative and agile organization in today’s fast-changing and competitive …
Business Strategy and Lessons from the Military
Most books on business strategy acknowledge the military origins of strategy (including myself in a recent perspective on the History of Strategy). Yet there are …
Why Today’s Strategy is Not Like Chess Anymore
“Why don’t you play chess?” a colleague asked during a dinner a few years ago, “I thought all strategists play chess, so why don’t you?” …
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 …
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 …