by sophie | Apr 11, 2018 | Articles
It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” Done and dusted, they all head home. But have they produced a plan with a strategy? At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask...
by sophie | Feb 8, 2018 | Articles
What if there was a way you could take your business outside the confines of competition and create your own market space? What if you were able to set the pace and create unique products, while also profiting from lucrative new markets? The blue ocean strategy...
by sophie | Nov 23, 2017 | business
By Roger L. Martin The common perception is that strategy is done at the top of the org chart, and execution is done below. It is exactly the opposite . First, I should explain that I have always hated the use of the term “execution.” Its common definition is...
by sophie | Oct 5, 2017 | business
Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. But why are these companies...
by sophie | Jun 8, 2017 | Articles
By Randy Bean Are companies seeing any value to their investments in “big data”? I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are...
by sophie | Apr 27, 2017 | Articles
The lesson here is that people trying to raise venture capital shouldn’t be worried about what Uber, specifically, might do to the economy if the company fails. The thing about a market bubble is that you don’t really know how big it is until it pops. So it...
by sophie | Mar 30, 2017 | Articles
By Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis and Ron Ashkenas For individual managers and employees, a merger or acquisition (M&A) is not just a corporate strategy; it’s a personally disruptive—often traumatic—event. What C-suite executives and consultants...
by sophie | Feb 9, 2017 | business
The world’s unicorns, VC-backed startups worth more than $1 billion, have been getting a lot of press lately. At the moment, Google News lists about 16 million results for Uber and 7 million results for Snapchat. By contrast, there are fewer than 3.5 million stories...
by sophie | Jan 19, 2017 | business
If you asked the world’s most successful business leaders what it means to “be strategic,” how many different answers do you think you’d get? Consider this number: 115,800,000. It’s the number of unique links returned when I searched online for “strategic leadership.”...
by sophie | Dec 29, 2016 | Articles
While the inauguration of Donald Trump will take place a little more than a month from now, French business owners will, at the same time, need a strong and fiscally unified eurozone and will need to work on their development strategy and their business models so that...
