Strategic Portfolio Management: The 4 Key Categories of Portfolios The StrategyBlocks team are giving a lot of thought to the process of categorizing strategic thinking and activity. Through discussions with customers, there seems to be a consistent challenge: “what work management programs (projects, portfolios, initiatives) should we really be focusing on and investing in … what [...]
Can Politics Make You a Better Business Leader? Politics is a messy business, filled with larger-than-life personalities who can be deeply flawed but still offer grandiose visions for how they can best lead. While the vision of political leadership is a lofty one, focused on serving the greater good, the day-to-day reality of the political [...]
The Evolution of Strategy ~ A 2020 Reboot Four years ago, Caroline from the StrategyBlocks team published a short blog discussing the Evolution of Strategy. Over the past 1541 days that blog has been read on average every 6 hours, everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and that frequency just keeps accelerating. While we can perhaps [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – September Two New Dashboard Objects The Multi Chart is a new custom dashboard object that can be found in the Custom Dashboard > Dashboard Objects toolbox. It can bring a new dimension to your dashboards. There are 3 chart types available: > Line > Area - with options for stack, [...]
An Integrated Framework for Strategic Execution I do enjoy a great diagram, especially a visual framework or a methodology. I have seen many well constructed diagrammatic frameworks covering various aspects of business strategy including planning, execution, delivery, values, outcomes etc…. But they can be a bit dull and, on occasion, overly academic! I am always [...]
How 2020 Changed the Way We Lead In a new world order dominated by a global pandemic and mounting demands for social change, business leadership looks vastly different. For most companies looking ahead into 2020, strategic plans were focused on how best to foster innovation, drive revenues and gain market share. Now, however, those same [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release - July We are always grateful to receive enhancement feedback from customers. It helps us to improve the overall product experience through the addition of great new features and functionality. We’d like to introduce 9 new features and describe their purpose and value. Feature News Popup When new features are added [...]
The Art of Strategy Recently I have been working with a new customer to model their business strategy, and I am delighted with how it has turned out. Why is this such an effective strategic model? It has two important things; balance and symmetry. Benefits of Balance Firstly, there is an excellent parent to child [...]
Transformational Strategic Execution: Experimentation and Learning Transformational Strategic Execution (TSE) This month I want to cover the last of the four facets of Transformational Strategic Execution. So, let’s quickly review how we got to this point. It can be useful to apply a best-practice, high-level framework to the way we think about business strategy. How, [...]
StrategyBlocks Releases the Kanban Blocks Board A brief history of Kanban “Kanban” is a Japanese word, it means “signboard” and we often see it implemented as columns of stacked Post-it notes on an office window. Its origins can be traced back to the ’40s where Toyota developed a system to manage the production process in [...]
