Seeing is Believing: The Key to Strategic Success The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind. The old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” is never truer than when trying to understand your organizational strategy. You may have the right plan all [...]
StrategyBlocks 4.0: Strategic Execution For Your Entire Organization Announcing StrategyBlocks 4.0: The Most Visual, Holistic Approach To Strategic Execution For Your Organization A sound business strategy must be carefully planned, visually engaging, and should help drive results. But more than that, it should be a cohesive plan that every person within the organization can see [...]
What Your Business Can Learn From Politics From a strategic perspective, political campaigns are no different than any other goal-based initiative. As with any business strategy, it’s a group of people coming together to achieve a common purpose and, ideally, objectively measuring performance. While similarities abound at every step of the planning, management and [...]
Planning for strategic success Companies are always trying to strike a balance between the planning and implementation of their business strategies. When the planning stage takes up too much time and too many resources, there can be reduced efficiency and effectiveness. A strategy for strategy Because of this risk, many businesses look for ways to reduce [...]
Why is strategic planning important? The line from a poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry," was famously put into common vernacular as the title for author John Steinbeck's 1937 novella 'Of Mice and Men'. It is a phrase that has come to mean [...]
Brexit Messes with Banking Strategy When the seemingly impossible Brexit decision happened, all throughout Europe the many tributaries that run from legislation through to banking began to shift. Despite the fears of panicked leaders across the European Union, most it seems, hope to keep financial regulations in place and running as smoothly as possible. [...]
3 Business Strategy Lessons from Game of Thrones The popular television show Game of Thrones is now in its sixth season and draws millions of viewers globally each episode. While a lot of what happens on screen is firmly within the realms of the fantasy world, the decisions of the characters can be seen to [...]
Customer engagement drives new business strategy Businesses that adapt their strategic plans frequently are often far better placed to take a larger section of the market when the opportunity presents. In the digital age, now more than ever, conditions are changing before our eyes in rapid and sometimes unpredictable ways. It is important to have [...]
Between stimulus and response: How mindfulness can boost your strategy power Occasionally in business, leaders are struck with a shortsighted approach; unable to uncouple their personal vision from the task at hand, their business strategy becomes narrow-minded. Because of the dynamic and rapid pace of contemporary business, leaders need to be adaptive and broad [...]
Improving the skills of your digital workforce We hear so often about the importance of introducing new technology and innovation into our businesses, and there are few who would argue with the productivity and efficiency benefits the digital age has yielded. From streamlining communications across a number of channels to freeing organizations from the [...]
