The New Digital Demand: Is Your Company Ready? Digital transformation has moved far beyond streamlining business operations. Digital has played a critical role in enhancing the consumer experience and its value has only increased over the last year when the pandemic changed the way so many businesses connect to their customers. Mary Meeker’s most recent [...]
Should Do or Need to Do? How to Spot the Difference in Your Business Strategy When trying to make decisions for your business it’s easy to get caught up on what you should do to succeed, versus what you need to do to succeed. If you’re having trouble spotting the difference, let’s be clear: the [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – February New Fully Customizable Metrics Object Last year we added a new View Type for the Custom Dashboard Block Object. It provides the ability to use HTML to create your own highly customized dashboard objects, when you need to create something that is not available from the existing view types. [...]
Three Key Business Initiatives to Implement Now The start of a new year always feels fresh with opportunity, especially following a particularly tumultuous year, as we experienced in 2020. While we may not yet be finished enduring the impact of the global pandemic, there is no better time than now to be planning and preparing [...]
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 [...]
Overcoming 2020: Three ways to get your business strategy back on track December is typically the time where we look ahead and create a plan for the coming year. As the holidays close in, it’s the perfect opportunity to assess what has worked over the course of the last 12 months and what created the [...]
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 [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – November Block Type Selector Buttons Our goal is to continuously innovate and create new ways to make StrategyBlocks more efficient and easy to navigate. Recently, it became apparent that some users didn't realise they could change the look of the block. So we replaced the old block type (face) selector [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – October In the world of StrategyBlocks for a number of years BLUE = GOOD. There was a good reason for this, red and green is the most common form of color blindness and this presents as a big problem when you are assessing the success or failure of a piece [...]
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 [...]
