by Daniel Emery | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog, Strategic Thinking
Thinking a company has a competitive advantage and knowing it has one, can sometimes be different. ‘A rising tide floats all boats’ and thus a company with rising sales, loyal customers and healthy profit doesn’t always mean it’s leveraging competitive advantages....
by Daniel Emery | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog, Strategic Thinking
As a strategist, you get asked this a lot. When I left business school over two-decades ago the answer seemed clear – a response I’m sure that was peppered with the latest buzz words and overly complicated thinking. And now? The same question is answered with the...
by Daniel Emery | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog, Creating Strategy
Head-to-head competition is rarely advisable. Sooner or later competitive focus moves to price and both parties suffer materially: we should never assume our counterparts will only act rationally and never unthinkingly. Avoiding head-to-head competition relies on...
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...
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