Articles → Business Strategy

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• Five things you need to eliminate from your strategy

  Just five?

• Seven Deadly Sins of Business Planning

  1? 2? 3? Or 7?

• Overuse of business models limits thinking

  Are you thinking about your business models?

• Making good strategic choices – Directional Policy Matrix

  Are you ready to make better strategic choices?

• Turning Strategy into Action – Ease of Doing/Impact Matrix

  What's the ease of doing? The impact?

• Strategy: Are you cannibalising your business?

  Will you eat, or be eaten?

• When Strategic Focus Goes Wrong

  Do you know what the consequences are?

Business Strategy

• Implementing Strategy through the Coalface

  Do you all use the same words to describe your strategy?

• Is formal incongruence destroying trust and productivity in your organisation?

  Do you do what you say you will?

• Implementing Transformational Change through a Line of Sight

  Where's your line of sight?

• Seven Deadly Sins of Goal Setting

  How many of these deadly sins are you committing?

• Mapping customer value creation

• Does business culture impact performance?

• Want a performance enhancer? Try strong, clear goals

• Common errors in organisational design

• Partnership begins at home

• Vision statements that confuse and bemuse

• Competition, without it we lose

• Business planning buzzword bingo

• A secret method for setting goals

• Implementing strategy; a balancing act

• What is a goal?

• Improve productivity by doing less

• Ask seven powerful questions to design your organisation for its purpose

• To market, to market

• Strategic planning - –start now

• Business planning LALs; you have to LOL

• To own, partner or procure?

• Seeking to improve productivity? Determine your constraints first

• Communicating strategy on a page

• Goal incongruence creates low productivity

• Set a goal and eliminate organisational inertia

• Strategy and tactics

• The components of a good vision statement

• Poor planning, lost opportunities

• Seven Christmas wishes for a productive workplace

• Some thoughts on organisational goals

• Bucking the country culture