About Craig Catley

Managing Director, StrategyBlocks

Transformational Strategic Execution: Experimentation and Learning

By |2022-11-07T12:29:37+13:00May 29th, 2020|Transformational Strategic Execution|

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

By |2022-11-07T11:11:01+13:00April 28th, 2020|Kanban, StrategyBlocks|

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 [...]

Transformational Strategic Execution: Empowering People to Execute Strategy

By |2022-11-07T12:29:10+13:00March 30th, 2020|Transformational Strategic Execution|

Transformational Strategic Execution: Empowering People to Execute Strategy Transformational Strategic Execution (TSE) Let’s do a quick recap: TSE is a new way of thinking about, and resolving, the challenges organizations run into when operationalizing their strategic plan and vision. It is separated into four facets of transformational management. Presenting strategy as a picture for clear [...]

Transformational Strategic Execution: Building Team Commitment

By |2022-11-07T12:28:13+13:00February 27th, 2020|StrategyBlocks, Transformational Strategic Execution|

Transformational Strategic Execution: Building Team Commitment Transformational Strategic Execution Transformational Strategic Execution (TSE) is a modern approach to addressing the problems often associated with operationalizing strategic plans and visions. It is separated in 4 facets of transformational management thinking;  Presenting strategy as a picture for clear communication Building organizational commitment and readiness for change Embracing [...]

Navigating the Long Road through College Accreditation

By |2024-06-26T13:09:36+12:00January 21st, 2020|Higher Education, Strategic Management Solutions, Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

Navigating the Long Road through College Accreditation Becoming accredited as a university or college in the United States is not easy. Accreditation is a legal process of validation, requiring colleges, universities and other higher learning institutions to be evaluated by a set of standards rigorously set by peer review boards, accrediting organizations and higher education [...]

Achieving 20/20 Strategic Vision In 2020

By |2022-11-01T15:22:44+13:00December 10th, 2019|Leadership, Strategic Management Solutions, Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

Achieving 20/20 Strategic Vision In 2020 Change, by its very nature is disruptive. Having worked in the business of strategy for well over a decade, we see firsthand how tumultuous it can be to undergo change within an organization. The reality is that most change is positive, even if sometimes the process feels rough. Change [...]

Transformational Strategic Execution: Creating A Model Of Vision

By |2022-11-07T12:28:40+13:00November 28th, 2019|Transformational Strategic Execution|

Transformational Strategic Execution: Creating A Model Of Vision Transformational Strategic Execution Last month I introduced the 4 facets that together form the concept of Transformational Strategic Execution: a new way we are thinking about business strategy. It is ‘transformational’, because it is accepting the inevitability of change and embracing it in a positive, forward-looking manner. [...]

The 4 Facets Of Transformational Strategic Execution

By |2022-11-07T11:21:08+13:00October 25th, 2019|Transformational Strategic Execution|

The 4 Facets Of Transformational Strategic Execution For the last few months my blog series has been discussing strategy over the decades. Through the years numerous strategic practices and methodologies have come and gone, but there are also those that have stood the test of time and morphed into newer ideas still in practice today. [...]

The Decade Of Great Tech: Agile Strategy Management Software

By |2022-11-07T11:30:44+13:00September 27th, 2019|Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

The Decade Of Great Tech: Agile Strategy Management Software The Twenty Tens The start of the twenty tens was a pretty miserable time economically. We were on the other side of the Global Financial Crisis, but its effects were far from over. World trade volume and world GDP growth were consistently flat and comparatively low [...]

Learning Organizations And Its Role In Business Strategy

By |2022-11-02T16:21:32+13:00August 29th, 2019|Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

Learning Organizations And Its Role In Business Strategy The Ohs How do you refer to the decade from 2000 to 2010? My personal favorite is the ‘ohs’, so from here on that is what I am going to use. It was a turbulent time for the world, we all witnessed the tragedy of September 11, [...]

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