Our Ideas in Articles

March 2020

The coronavirus awakens a new management mentality

What we thought as not relating to us, as happening in someone else’s backyard, all of a sudden, the coronavirus monster appeared front and centre before our eyes and scared us away from our [...]

Urgency: an ally or a foe?

Oftentimes, we hear that managers are advised to create urgency around the situation they face for the purpose of tackling it more effectively.

Is this conception of urgency a fallacy or is there some truth [...]

November 2019

A one-page Market Analysis Framework

 

The framework below originated from my consulting work but the ideas in the four components come to a large extent from the CIIM MBA lectures of professor Gordon Mandry to whom I owe many [...]

July 2019

Τι είναι στρατηγική και πως ο στρατηγικός σχεδιασμός μπορεί να τη στηρίξει

Στρατηγική είναι  το πώς κερδίζουμε στις αγορές, στη μάχη ή σε οποιοδήποτε ανταγωνιστικό παιγνίδι.

Ένας τέτοιος ορισμός είναι σύμφωνος με την διαίσθηση που οι πλείστοι έχουμε για τη στρατηγική. Όμως δεν μας δίνει οποιαδήποτε καθοδήγηση [...]

Strategy and Strategic Planning

Strategy is how we win in the market place, the battle or any other sort of competitive game.

Defining it like this very much agrees with the intuitive sense we have for strategy but does [...]

June 2019

The benefits of having a business strategy

It provides direction as to

What your company aims to ultimately achieve (Vision),
What guides your daily works (Mission) and
What differentiating strengths you must develop to outperform the competition at what you do (Competitive [...]