How to Create a Happier Workplace Through Effective Work Management Setting the Scene Let me preface this blog post with the statement that I don’t know anything about large-scale construction projects and am not in any way trying to be contentious. However, it is an example of an industry that we can all identify with. [...]
Measuring Success: Evaluating Company Strategy With Performance Metrics We talk a lot on this blog about how to create a successful strategic plan—after all, companies with clearly defined and documented plans grow 30% faster. But how do you know if your plan is successful? This can often be where strategy falls apart. As a recent [...]
Three Strategic Challenges That May Be Holding Your Business Back Strategic Communication When we first engage with a business who needs help with their strategy, their top concern is that they don’t have a clear and concise strategy that everyone in the organization understands. Communication is essential for any business, but it is especially important [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – New Dashboard Object Padding & Progress Bar Colors Dashboard Object Padding Having a snap-to-grid option for laying out the objects on your dashboards is very helpful, you can arrange everything to line up quickly, easily, and perfectly. However, there are those occasions when you just need to nudge an object ever [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – User Abilities StrategyBlocks User Roles Our approach to user management has always been to keep it simple! From an administration point of view, this meant not having to manage multiple tiers of users, each with a different purpose and a different cost. So, in StrategyBlocks, there are only three different User [...]
Strategic Ideation Top Trumps: The Comparison Concept for Better Strategy The Comparison Concept I still remember clearly, all those (many) years ago, sitting in a circle with my friends in the school playground playing a card game called Super Trumps (more widely known in other parts as Top Trumps). It was a simple concept: the [...]
The Four Controls to Harness Organizational Innovation The emergence of ideation Earlier this month StrategyBlocks 6 was released, it is a significant advancement in strategic execution management. I am excited about this release as it takes one of the components of execution a major step forward, that being innovation management. In the most recent edition [...]
The What, Why and How of Work Management We all have things we need to do, jobs fill almost every minute of every day, and those moments when we are doing nothing at all, we are generally still thinking about something. As the late Leslie Nielsen said, "Doing nothing is very hard to do… you [...]
ISO 27001 Certification - From Doubter to Believer My first ISO experience Early in my technology career I encountered ISO. My employer was compelled to map and document every aspect and process of the business to gain the necessary certification. It was an arduous and lengthy task, and by the end vast numbers of ring [...]
How to Create a Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map The “Urgent Requirement” I am sure we can all relate to an urgent request for a report of some description. Given that the primary theme of this month’s newsletter is strategic agility, it was coincidental that a colleague asked me to create a balanced scorecard strategy map [...]
