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 [...]
How to Stay Relevant in Retail Amid Ongoing Change The world of retail is no stranger to adaptation. Consumer trends shift like the wind, and retailers of all stripes are hyperfocused on meeting the current needs of their customers, no matter how they might change. That can mean everything from shifting in-store product to adjusting [...]
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, [...]
Finding Strategic Vision in Turbulent Times A recent article in The Change Leader discussed how to navigate a strategic course during chaotic circumstances. Focused on the higher education market, it highlighted the significant toll recent market changes have taken on colleges and universities and offered thoughts on how institutions can survive during times of upheaval. [...]
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 [...]
