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 [...]
Is Your Business Overwhelmed? A Back to Basics Approach to Strategy Can Help The last few years have been topsy turvy for everyone. A pandemic, worldwide lockdowns, a struggling global economy, civil and social unrest, climate change - any number of significant disruptions have required organizations to make big changes, adjust priorities or course correct [...]
Feature Focus - August Updates to StrategyBlocks There are a number of new features available in the latest release of StrategyBlocks, let's take a quick look at each one. Deeper Integration to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) We have enhanced our integration with AAD which now extends past the current Single Sign-on (SSO) capability. This [...]
Feature Focus - StrategyBlocks Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint It seems almost all organizations today are constantly striving for greater strategic transparency and want to share elements of their strategic plan with a wide variety of stakeholders. It could be shared internally or externally (e.g., to the community, customers, students, partners etc.) - and of course [...]
Building a Strategy to Meet Your ESG Goals Building a sustainable company is no longer on the list of nice-to-haves. Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics are insights that rank just as important as Return on Investment (ROI) for company executives, shareholders and even consumers. More than just financial benefit, having clearly defined ESG metrics [...]
Strategic Dashboarding and the Use of Imagery A picture is worth a thousand words I am a great fan of including imagery as part of my dashboard design and layouts. When used properly, images can add so much to a visualization; however, many would rather fill any spare white space with another number or a [...]
Feature Focus - Nested Custom Fields Available this month is a feature extension to Custom Fields. First, let's start with a recap of the purpose of Custom Fields within StrategyBlocks. There will often be times when ‘out-of-the-box’ fields don’t quite meet the specific reporting requirement you are looking for. As an example, some form of [...]
What’s ahead for 2022? We share our top predictions After the last two years, we can all agree that ‘predicting the future’ is an impossible feat. Still, we can benefit from looking at the business landscape around us and highlighting what trends are going to have the biggest impact in the months to come. Two [...]
Three Steps to Start Your ESG Journey Today On the heels of this year’s Cop26, it is clear that businesses around the world are committed to reducing their environmental impact and improving sustainability practices. Analysts from McKinsey & Company rightly noted that while nearly everyone is aligned on achieving NetZero, the path to getting there [...]
