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 [...]
Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help Two years into the pandemic and we’re only beginning to wrap our minds around the impact it has had on the workforce. Global lockdowns and a new, more virtual world spurred ‘The Great Resignation,’ with individuals from all walks of life evaluating their priorities and preferences [...]
We can all be Strategic Leaders - Characteristics of Successful Ones Visionary or Operator? Following a recent 2021 study by PwC on Harvard Business Review, they recognized some “key characteristics” that were desirable to be a future successful leader. In the past (and perhaps still today), it was common that in the significant majority of [...]
When Less is More: The Art of the Subtraction Strategy There’s a reason that Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, is so famous. Her Konmari method of organization focuses on finding what brings you joy and then organizing your space around it. When it was published in 2011, it was the [...]
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 [...]
Making The Case for New Technology Investment In the age of disruption, technology is nearly impossible to keep up with. While it can be enticing to bring new technology solutions into every facet of your business, budgets and resources rarely allow for it. So how can you be sure that investing in new technology is [...]
Three Tips for Successful, Agile Strategy This Year Thomas Edison famously said, “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” Chances are, as the new year gets underway, you’ve got a solid vision for what you want to accomplish within your organization. Whether or not you meet those goals will be determined largely by the actions taken [...]
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 [...]
The Four Perspectives of Improved Decision-Making How we make decisions We often talk about agile work practices and dynamic strategic execution as a critical part of the ‘fabric’ of business innovation, but for some reason, we are not able to push this way of thinking and working back into the strategic decision-making process--what we call [...]
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 [...]
