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...
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...
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