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 | 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, 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...
by Daniel Emery | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog, Strategic Thinking
Developing evidenced-based strategy requires a straightforward approach to discovering the signal in the noise. Life would be easier if everything we needed to know in solving a client problem was listed neatly and orderly in a single spreadsheet; Unfortunately,...
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