by Daniel Emery | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Implementing Strategy
Intuitively, we think getting our company to be the best at everything it does is right. Why wouldn’t it be? But business reality, especially during the past ten-years, tells us no company has reached, let alone sustained this achievement. Paradoxically, and perhaps...
by Daniel Emery | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Strategic Thinking
The internet has helped reduce traditional barriers to entry, enabling new entrants to burst onto the scene, forge a bridgehead into the incumbent’s customer-base, target business model weakness and erode product margins. Undeniably, this is true in many instances but...
by Daniel Emery | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Implementing Strategy
Strategic business objectives are not the same as functional or individual performance objectives. Distinguishing characteristics set them apart, most notably their direct relationship with the current and future health and performance of the company. Creating...
by Daniel Emery | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Creating Strategy
Business Leaders are tempted to diversify the company by moving into apparently similar adjacency markets, with varying degrees of success. What seemed familiar or easy to do turned out to be very different in hindsight and so what characteristics of adjacency moves...
by Daniel Emery | May 16, 2017 | Blog, Strategic Thinking
Commoditisation in many markets is symbolised by a gradual erosion in the buyer’s perception of the differences between products/ services from multiple suppliers in a defined procurement category – encouraging buyers to focus on price. In formulating the right...
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