Looking at the failure of strategy is the broad basis of my DBA so I am always interested in articles or commentary on this area. In my personal view there is a serious bias to writing about the positive and ignoring how and why we fail. Here is an article from Forbes listing the 10 […]
Have you identified your strategic triggers before you start rolling out the strategy? A key aspect of the strategic planning process is that once you have decided and agreed your strategic plan – and while you still have the design team together – that you identify what the events, conditions or circumstances are that will […]
We are all using the same words but we mean so many different things. This comes up frequently in my research, my general discussions about my research and in my consulting work. Whilst I have already written that at the heart of this issue is not the particular jargon but the organisational understanding of the […]
In support of my “why does business strategy fail” work here is some research that asks some very direct questions of senior executives about their strategy with disappointing results. In 2011 Booz & Co conducted a survey of 2,800 executives from companies of various sizes, geographies, and industries. According to this survey, most executives don’t […]
These two words are often used interchangeably in many organisations and in business articles and books. However they have two very different connotations especially in terms of strategy. If a strategy is implemented then it implies that it was not in the business previously i.e. either the business didn’t have a strategy or this is […]
One of the more provoking articles in my study is Collis & Rukstad (2008) “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” which was published in the HBR. It is provoking because as a CEO it really challenges you to be able articulate your organisation’s strategy. It also drives home the reality that in many organisations […]
Had a great meeting with one of my supervisors this week. We discussed working my literature review into something suitable to be submitted for publication. He encouraged me to put three – four hypothesis’ together and to start to build out 3-4 pieces of work around what can go wrong. Described as a staking a […]
Leadership Transitions 