Why KPIs are Critical for Business Strategy Quantitative measurement is critical to a strong business strategy. Surprisingly, however, it is often overlooked. While there are any number of reasons why, many companies make the mistake of believing Key Performance Indicators (business metrics) are obvious and therefore don’t need to be clearly articulated as part of [...]
Six Ways to Build Strong Leaders Leadership sets the tone of an organization. Strong leaders are responsible for cultivating company culture, motivating employees and helping to drive meaningful results. Negative or weak leadership leaves its mark too, however. It can lead to poor productivity, decreased innovation and a toxic working environment. The traits of a [...]
Three Trends in Business Strategy in 2024 As we begin the new year, it’s a good time to reflect on the progress made over the last 12 months and look ahead to those areas that will shape progress this year. 2023 continued to be a year marked by outside forces for many companies, with a [...]
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 [...]
