Strategy 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...

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...

You no longer need to ‘bet the farm’ on getting everything right at the start and committing to a large front-ended budget. It’s extremely rare to know all the answers at the start. Whilst it’s common to find business failure and budget overspend and even more common...