The Best Defense is a Good Offense Football season is in full swing in the United States, and one phrase you’ll hear over and over again is that the best defense is a good offense. This analogy isn’t only applicable to American football, however. Any competitive sport has a few takeaways for the corporate [...]
The Strategy of Strategic Corporate Giving Is your business giving? Business strategy is more than ensuring your objectives of ROI and employee engagement are met. While business is all about profit, it may seem that giving a portion of that profit away goes against sound advice. However, corporate giving programs, also known as Corporate [...]
Spotlight on Strategy: What Your Business Can Learn from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Chances are, when you hear the words “ice bucket challenge” the first thing that comes to mind is ALS. ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gherig’s disease, affects the central nervous system and causes dysfunction in muscle movement. It’s chronic [...]
StrategyBlocks Wins Prestigious BIG Award www.bintelligence.com We are very excited to announce our flagship product, StrategyBlocks 4.0, has been named New Product of the Year in the 2016 Business Intelligence Group (BIG) Awards for Business. The Annual BIG Awards highlight the superior performance of large and small organizations, executives and products. StrategyBlocks 4.0 is [...]
Measuring Success through Execution How do we measure success? For some, success is that one perfect moment where everything comes together. For others, success is a measurement of carefully crafted ideas that make a difference in the world. More technical or analytical people might even measure success by data points and analytics that clearly [...]
The Core of Strategy When we think of the core of an item we think of something that acts as a support upon which everything else can build and evolve. An apple’s core, for example, holds an apple together and provides seeds for future growth. The core of the earth supports the rocks above [...]
How to Harmonize Your Strategy Strategic planning is essential when it comes to achieving success and efficiency within an organization. However, it is often difficult to ensure that implemented plans reach all areas within the company, resulting in poor understanding and no real idea of how to visualize the plan from those actually in [...]
The Skills Every Project Manager Needs for Successful Strategy The role of project manager is critical. This pivotal position can be the difference between successful projects that come in on time and within budget, or complete failure. Whether or not you are a dedicated project manager, there are still opportunities within most organizations to [...]
If Sun Tzu Had Been CEO If Sun Tzu had been a CEO, would he have applied the same tactics to his business that he did his armies? Many people have thought so – taking the timeless words of wisdom regarding warfare and applying them to modern business philosophy. As Rick Wartzman, executive director [...]
How to Balance Strategy’s Ying with Culture’s Yang We’ve talked about planning and the importance of setting strategy. We’ve talked about how collaborative diplomats make better strategic leaders today than authoritarian autocrats. But what we haven’t explored in depth yet is a third crucial block when building successful companies: culture. Strategy is futile if [...]
