June 2021
Critical mass in business
Who wouldn’t want a tool that identifies problems early avoiding the inaction or complacency that comes from not knowing and not pinning down where the trouble is?
To respond to this, we introduce here the [...]
January 2021
The supply chain as a tool for developing strategy
We have been doing some work for a restaurant chain that, under the severe COVID restrictions, has been forced to consider alternatives among them the possibility of adding delivery services.
The question we have been [...]
December 2020
What’s wrong with our ethics?
Wrong is wrong, even if everyone does it, even if nobody dares speak against it.
Right is right, even if no one is doing it, even if nobody dares support it, even if naysayers say [...]
Managing by Appreciative Inquiry
When we focus to correct an organization for deficiencies, what we are trying to do is to make that organization better. But better in relation to what? In relation to what it was in [...]
September 2020
A two-stage framework for crafting strategy
When crafting a business strategy, don’t focus on competitors only.
Business Strategy aims to achieve and maintain a favourable posture for the company by influencing the equilibrium between the elements that shape the competing market [...]
July 2020
Strategy in verse
The 3rd of our recent articles on strategy:
Strategy
Is so many things
In so many different ways
That makes it hard
To tell what strategy is
But when we see it done
We can tell
A strategy was there!
What a creature
Strategy [...]