Strategies to Strengthen Your Business During an Economic Downturn

By |2022-11-07T11:01:40+13:00October 28th, 2022|Leadership, Strategy planning|

Strategies to Strengthen Your Business During an Economic Downturn It’s hard to avoid the headlines predicting hard economic times ahead. A recent survey from The Conference Board, touting the C-suite’s focus on a potential downturn, was widely covered, with one ominous headline telling us It's almost impossible to find a CEO who isn't bracing for [...]

Decentralization: A New Era of Business Leadership

By |2022-11-02T11:40:51+13:00September 29th, 2022|Leadership|

Decentralization: A New Era of Business Leadership If your organization has thrived - or even just survived - over the last two years, it is likely because you have learned to embrace two fundamental headwinds: disruption and reinvention. No matter your industry, the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have changed the way companies operate. Those changes [...]

Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change

By |2022-11-04T09:42:15+13:00September 29th, 2022|Leadership, Strategy planning, Transformational Strategic Execution|

Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change First - The letting go One might consider people to be the hardest thing to change, and corporate culture is often overlooked. It often seems the fundamental DNA of the business will always resist change to process and policy. Culture has a way of pulling the entire enterprise [...]

Is Your Business Overwhelmed? A Back to Basics Approach to Strategy Can Help

By |2022-11-02T16:13:08+13:00August 30th, 2022|Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks|

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

By |2022-11-02T11:58:58+13:00August 23rd, 2022|New Features, StrategyBlocks|

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 [...]

Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos

By |2022-11-04T09:42:51+13:00July 27th, 2022|Culture, Leadership|

Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos   Digital transformation remains alive and well across most companies, as adaption and agility have become the norm in order to stay competitive. To successfully function at the pace required today, a company has to do more than rely on technology or processes. Creating the right [...]

Strategic Plan Profile Assessment

By |2024-06-26T13:11:38+12:00July 27th, 2022|Government, Higher Education, Strategy planning|

Strategic Plan Profile Assessment At StrategyBlocks, we read, review and model many strategic plans. It is important that we can interpret and understand the plan’s intent quickly. This is the case for other stakeholders with an interest in a business’s strategic direction too. If you are a local government organization, the community has an interest [...]

Feature Focus – StrategyBlocks Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint

By |2022-11-02T12:05:36+13:00June 29th, 2022|New Features, StrategyBlocks|

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

By |2022-11-01T16:37:03+13:00June 29th, 2022|Strategy planning, StrategyBlocks, Transformational Strategic Execution|

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 [...]

The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand

By |2022-11-07T12:11:39+13:00May 30th, 2022|Leadership, Strategy planning|

The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand Blame it on the rise of social media, more socially conscious consumers, or perhaps even the 24-hour news cycle, but never has there been more pressure on companies to weigh in on controversial topics trending in the mainstream consciousness. These topics are often centered around real-time crises—everything [...]

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