The Demise of Strategic Planning: How to Face The Future of Strategic Agility "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates If you listen to the experts, strategic planning is dead - at least in the traditional sense. For [...]
Why Your Company Needs Strategic Management Software When it comes to preparing your business strategy, you may question whether your company really needs additional software. After all, businesses have run for decades by managing their strategy with simple tools. Yet watching the success of our clients, it is clear that yesterday’s methods are no [...]
Three Statements to Bring Clarity to Your Business Strategy We’ve helped organizations of all shapes and sizes manage their strategic execution for some time. And as such, we feel confident in saying that - no matter the size of the company - in order for a business to be successful it must establish a [...]
The Definitive Guide to Strategic Holiday Shopping There’s no question that at StrategyBlocks, we live and breathe strategy. So we feel pretty confident in saying we’re experts when it comes to building a strategy for all kinds of events and activities, even outside of the work place. Tomorrow marks Black Friday, the biggest worldwide [...]
Planning Ahead: Business Strategy in 2017 There is a phrase which perfectly encompasses the month of November: ‘To be early is to be on time, and to be on time is to be late.’ When it comes to planning the impending year, November is the month which sets the dividing line between strategically on [...]
Growing Pains: Be Prepared You may not equate strategy and growth with climbing a mountain, but there are certainly parallels and lessons to be learned from both, as the same questions can apply to businesses facing growing pains or to climbers looking to ascend mountain peaks. Both climbers and businesses face what seem like [...]
Don’t Let Your Past Mistakes Haunt You Halloween is upon us, and with it the usual ghosts, goblins and hauntings. Most of us enjoy a good scare once in awhile, especially in the name of Halloween fun. However, when it comes to your business, a real scare doesn’t feel so much thrilling as it [...]
The Best Defense is a Good Offense Football season is in full swing in the United States, and one phrase you’ll hear over and over again is that the best defense is a good offense. This analogy isn’t only applicable to American football, however. Any competitive sport has a few takeaways for the corporate [...]
Spotlight on Strategy: What Your Business Can Learn from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Chances are, when you hear the words “ice bucket challenge” the first thing that comes to mind is ALS. ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gherig’s disease, affects the central nervous system and causes dysfunction in muscle movement. It’s chronic [...]
StrategyBlocks Wins Prestigious BIG Award www.bintelligence.com We are very excited to announce our flagship product, StrategyBlocks 4.0, has been named New Product of the Year in the 2016 Business Intelligence Group (BIG) Awards for Business. The Annual BIG Awards highlight the superior performance of large and small organizations, executives and products. StrategyBlocks 4.0 is [...]
