Successful Business Strategy
A successful business strategy is something that we all strive for. We cannot rely on good fortune. Yet conceiving strategies for success and sustaining successful strategic performance is THE challenge for managers in today's turbulent and uncertain world. This website is devoted to helping you build a winning business strategy and to sustain business success and excellence. You will find that the website is divided into the following main sections. About Dr Robert Davies The support that I provide builds upon my experience as an employee, manager, researcher and consultant. Learn more about my background in this section. My current research examines two areas. The first is the generation of future scenarios to help managers see both the challenges of working through a recession and, importantly, what the world could look like when we emerge from the current crisis. The second research area focuses upon leading innovation in the 21st century and I am co-leader of a joint Cass Business School / Chartered Insurance Institute Study examining this issue - to learn more just choose the "About" option from the menu at the top of your screen. Helping You Just select this option from the navigation menu to learn how I can help you. Unlike some consultants, I don't have a range of pre-designed tools to sell you. Rather, my approach is to understand your issues and then to identify how my experience and research can help you. Examples of the work that I do can be found here. Learning and Development Read here about my newly designed designed competency development workshops including Strategic Thinking, Scenario Planning the Balanced Scorecard, Competitor Analysis and Change Management. eBriefings A library of briefing papers to help you keep on top of the world of business strategy and change management. Click on eBriefings in the navigation menu to see a full list or just make a selection from the right hand side bar. Some of the latest additions include the key trends and issues to watch in 2010, how to gain competitive success in the economic upturn and predicting resistance to organizational change. The briefing Recession: Key Questions for business survival and growth defines the key questions that any business must consider during a recession and 2009: Signposts to Where? - provides four scenarios of what the world might look like when we have pulled through the current recession. But why not start by reading Have you got a strategy? Strategy Blog A new addition to this website to encourage debate and discussion on key topics in the areas of strategy and business success. The Strategy Blog includes a major new section focusing upon business survival and growth in a recession. Here you will also find my views on the long-term impact that the economic downturn can have on your business and the steps that you can take to win. Register for e-briefings Register to receive the latest news in the world of business strategy by e-mail. If you find this website helpful, then I am content. If not, please tell me. Best regards, Dr Robert Davies	Executive Briefings "Have you got a strategy?" The essential components of a successful strategy are clearly defined here. 2010 - the real trends and issues. Eight key trends emerging in a post-recession world that could reshape your business. Managing change in a recession A recession demands a special type of change management. Mapping Resistance to Change Using maps of power to understand resistance to organizational change. 2009: Signposts to Where? Four scenarios of what the post recession world could like. Recession: Key questions for business survival and growth. Guiding pointers for business leaders during a recession. Strategy and Uncertainty: How scenarios can help. How to build scenarios to manage an uncertain future. "Circles of Success". Can you represent your strategy - visually? Communicating Strategy - Getting your message across. Eleven key guiding pointers to help ensure effective comminication of your strategy. "Lessons from the Blu-Ray HD-DVD Wars ". Seven key lessons from the latest clash of the giants. "The Acid Test" Can your strategy deliver a winning value proposition? Take the test here. "Reinvention: Asking the right questions". What can we learn from Amazon, eBay and easyJet? "Outsourcing Problems & disadvantages Revisited". One of the most popular pages. A full analysis of outsourcing issues. "BPO: Advantage or stalemate?". A shorter version dealing with outsourcing issues. "Balanced Scorecard: Success without the pitfalls". Another briefing attracting many 'hits'. "It's Strategy Time". Looks at the essential elements of the business planning process. "Change & Innovation". One of the original briefings based on my own research. "The Future of Business Strategy". Competitive advantage is changing ... "IFF: Friend or Foe". How good are you at scanning the environment for unexpected change? "Success: Your biggest problem?" Uncork the champagne or time to question what your organisation is all about? "Motivation Revisited" Getting back to people management. Balanced Scorecard: Panacea or Poisoned Chalice? A look at what the latest research can tell us.

Successful Business Strategy

A successful business strategy is something that we all strive for. We cannot rely on good fortune. Yet conceiving strategies for success and sustaining successful strategic performance is THE challenge for managers in today's turbulent and uncertain world. This website is devoted to helping you build a winning business strategy and to sustain business success and excellence. You will find that the website is divided into the following main sections.

About Dr Robert Davies

The support that I provide builds upon my experience as an employee, manager, researcher and consultant. Learn more about my background in this section. My current research examines two areas. The first is the generation of future scenarios to help managers see both the challenges of working through a recession and, importantly, what the world could look like when we emerge from the current crisis. The second research area focuses upon leading innovation in the 21st century and I am co-leader of a joint Cass Business School / Chartered Insurance Institute Study examining this issue - to learn more just choose the "About" option from the menu at the top of your screen.

Helping You

Just select this option from the navigation menu to learn how I can help you. Unlike some consultants, I don't have a range of pre-designed tools to sell you. Rather, my approach is to understand your issues and then to identify how my experience and research can help you. Examples of the work that I do can be found here.

Learning and Development

Read here about my newly designed designed competency development workshops including Strategic Thinking, Scenario Planning the Balanced Scorecard, Competitor Analysis and Change Management.

eBriefings

A library of briefing papers to help you keep on top of the world of business strategy and change management. Click on eBriefings in the navigation menu to see a full list or just make a selection from the right hand side bar. Some of the latest additions include the key trends and issues to watch in 2010, how to gain competitive success in the economic upturn and predicting resistance to organizational change. The briefing Recession: Key Questions for business survival and growth defines the key questions that any business must consider during a recession and 2009: Signposts to Where? - provides four scenarios of what the world might look like when we have pulled through the current recession. But why not start by reading Have you got a strategy?

Strategy Blog

A new addition to this website to encourage debate and discussion on key topics in the areas of strategy and business success. The Strategy Blog includes a major new section focusing upon business survival and growth in a recession. Here you will also find my views on the long-term impact that the economic downturn can have on your business and the steps that you can take to win.

Register for e-briefings

If you find this website helpful, then I am content. If not, please tell me.

Best regards,

Dr Robert Davies

Executive Briefings

"Have you got a strategy?" The essential components of a successful strategy are clearly defined here.

2010 - the real trends and issues. Eight key trends emerging in a post-recession world that could reshape your business.

Managing change in a recession A recession demands a special type of change management.

Mapping Resistance to Change Using maps of power to understand resistance to organizational change.

2009: Signposts to Where? Four scenarios of what the post recession world could like.

Recession: Key questions for business survival and growth. Guiding pointers for business leaders during a recession.

Strategy and Uncertainty: How scenarios can help. How to build scenarios to manage an uncertain future.

"Circles of Success". Can you represent your strategy - visually?

Communicating Strategy - Getting your message across. Eleven key guiding pointers to help ensure effective comminication of your strategy.

"Lessons from the Blu-Ray HD-DVD Wars ". Seven key lessons from the latest clash of the giants.

"The Acid Test" Can your strategy deliver a winning value proposition? Take the test here.

"Reinvention: Asking the right questions". What can we learn from Amazon, eBay and easyJet?

"Outsourcing Problems & disadvantages Revisited". One of the most popular pages. A full analysis of outsourcing issues.

"BPO: Advantage or stalemate?". A shorter version dealing with outsourcing issues.

"Balanced Scorecard: Success without the pitfalls". Another briefing attracting many 'hits'.

"It's Strategy Time". Looks at the essential elements of the business planning process.

"Change & Innovation". One of the original briefings based on my own research.

"The Future of Business Strategy". Competitive advantage is changing ...

"IFF: Friend or Foe". How good are you at scanning the environment for unexpected change?

"Success: Your biggest problem?" Uncork the champagne or time to question what your organisation is all about?

"Motivation Revisited" Getting back to people management.

Balanced Scorecard: Panacea or Poisoned Chalice? A look at what the latest research can tell us.