Why the CEO Needs to Make Fewer Decisions The buck-stops-here mentality of the CEO role is often conflated with the idea that CEOs must have the final say in all decisions across the company. While most leaders know this is an improbable, if not impractical assumption, there still exists a culture within most organizations that [...]
Do You Need a Chief Strategy Officer? The role of the Chief Strategy Officer can mean different things to different organizations, leading a company to question whether they really need one. Defining strategic business direction has long been the purview of the CEO, alongside the Board, and for this reason, the CSO role can feel [...]
StrategyBlocks 6 Wins 2023 Stratus Award for Cloud Collaboration We’re happy to announce that The Business Intelligence Group has awarded StrategyBlocks 6 a 2023 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing in their annual business award program. The organization sought to identify the companies, products and people that are offering unique solutions that take advantage of cloud [...]
Tired of Hearing How Strategic Plans Fail? Here’s How to Succeed You’ve likely heard the well-known statistic that 90% of strategic plans fail. It’s easy to believe the fault lies with a poorly designed plan or strategy, but even 67% of well-formulated strategies fail, due to poor execution. Our managing director Craig Catley recently wrote [...]
Three Tips for Bringing AI Into Your Strategy Planning The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 unleashed a new era for artificial intelligence. Within just a few short months, investment in AI has exploded, alongside a crop of new startups, new use cases, new job positions and a host of other exciting, challenging and even [...]
Value Stream Management: An Introduction Businesses across industries are facing a new fundamental problem: connecting the work they have committed to deliver with the right goal in the form of a resultant key performance indicator. It goes both ways, too, as there are a near infinite combination of data points to measure and many possible [...]
StrategyBlocks 6 Takes Home Gold from the 2023 Globee® Awards We are incredibly excited that our new platform, StrategyBlocks 6, was honored by the prestigious Globee® Awards for Information Technology. StrategyBlocks 6 received Gold distinction in the Strategic Corporate Performance Management Solutions category, recognized for driving innovation in the field of strategic management. StrategyBlocks 6 [...]
Introducing StrategyBlocks 6, Strategic Planning for the Modern Organization Strategy planning and execution have never been easy for organizations. The statistics can be disheartening—anywhere from 60-90% of strategic plans fail. There is a myriad of reasons—everything from a poorly designed plan, lack of ownership in the process, failure to properly communicate, not having enough resources [...]
Are You Making the Most of Your Talent Pool? Three Strategies that Can Help The first quarter of 2023 has been defined by companies seeking to tighten their belt, reign in spending and evaluate personnel numbers. Mark Zuckerberg is an example of a business leader making these changes boldly, touting the ‘year of efficiency’ amid [...]
Incorporating Gartner's 2023 Workplace Trends into Your Strategy The workplace has been upended in the last few years. With immediate impacts from COVID-19 finally beginning to recede into the background, experts are watching closely to see which trends take center stage over the coming year. All work environments - whether virtual or in-person, large or [...]
