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This
article is the place to start. It describes exactly what a strategy is
- a source of long-term competitive superiority - and define exactly
what a strategy should contain. It finishes with a useful questionnaire
to help you measure the completeness of your own strategy.
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This
articles identifieds the eight emerging issues and trends that could
make or break your business as we emerge into the post-recessionary
world.
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How to build scenarios of the post recession world and the key implications for business. Four potential examples and a tracking mechanism are presented.
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Published
in October 2004 when most organisations were going through their
annual planning cycle, this ebriefing provides a very quick resume of
the major steps in the traditional planning process.
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Business
strategy is changing - both in how we think about competitive advantage
and how strategy is created and implemented. Read this briefing to
discover the latest trends.
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We
all need to be different, but how do you manage the process of
delivering innovation in a staid, mature company? This article, based
on a detailed research study, explains how.
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Outsourcing
is a popular "strategic" solution. But the downsides are severe and
have not been well publicised. Learn more about the outsourcing dangers
here.
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Outsourcing: Strategic Advantage Or Strategic Stalemate
has been the most popular briefing on this website - so I have included
a more detailed discussion here on this key issue not has not had
sufficient attention in the management press.
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Learn
about the characteristics of virtual business strategy and how to
define the "anchor point" - the part of your business that you must
retain to gain dominance in a virtual environment.
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The
Balanced Scorecard is used by over 50% of Fortune 1000 companies and
its success is well publicised. It is an effective performance
management approach but the pitfalls to look out for are not so well
publicised. This article looks in detail at pitfalls for those about to
implement the Balanced Scorecard and also for established scorecard
users.
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In
this update I deal with one of the most difficult tasks for the manager
- but one that has received surprisingly little publicity - managing
success. If not properly managed success can lead to failure. Read this
brief to identify the warning signals.
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"IFF"
is a process fighter pilots use to determine if an unexpected blip on
their radar screens is friendly or hostile. In the business world the
competitive environment is becoming more uncertain and it is essential
to monitor the edge of the environment to get early warning signals of
potentially hostile disruption. Research, however, tells us that many
companies are ill-prepared to undertake
this task.
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Can your strategy really deliver value? Or when it comes to the sales process is it forgotten?
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Getting back to managing people as individuals - how can a sixty year old tool help us?
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This is an ever popular tool but with reported failure rates as high as 70% - where could it all go wrong?
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The
rules of the game are being altered in every business sector.
tradition "stragey recipes" are open to attack. Learn the
key questions to ask to see if your market is riipe for reinvention.
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Graphical
tools can help you build an effective strategy and communicate it.
Here I look at a new tool and suggest some additions. It
can also be used to audit the effectiveness of your strategy process -
and I can included a few relevant questions to consider.
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There
is a lot to be learnt from how Sony and Toshiba managed this latest war
of the formats. This briefing develops seven key lessons for
strategiests and innovators.
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Five key areas for business leaders to consider when facing an economic downturn.
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We
tend to spend so much time researching, analysing and thinking during
the strategy making process that we give too little attention to
arguably the most important task, which is communicating the need for a
new strategy and the change it will involve. This briefing
provides 11 key pointers.
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We
live now in a fragile inter-connected world that produces sudden
unforeseen shocks. Learn how business scenarios can help you to
manage and understand uncertainty.
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Understanding
individual's sources of power is a useful to to help proedict and
manage resistance to change. This briefing provides an easy to
use application approach.
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The
silver lining to a recession is the wave of creative destruction
that it brings with it. This wave creates many new opportunities.
But it also brings threats for many businesses and demands a
special type of change management.
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