Pity to see that long-rising star, Starbucks, in trouble over the last year or so. Specially intriguing to see the similarities with the MacDonalds’ trouble around 2005 - over-expansion.

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We have just launched a NEW forum for this area and encourage you to join the community conversation. I have added links on the StrategyDynamics website and the book website - forum.strategydynamics.info.
There are two streams of students taking a Strategy Dynamics course with Kim Warren starting week of Jan 14th, one based in London at London [...]

Kim Warren was awarded the Jay W Forrester Prize in 2005 for his previous book “Competitive Strategy Dynamics”, for his synthesis of business strategy and system dynamics.
Strategic Management Dynamics [SMD] is a new textbook - this starts with understanding how an organization’s resources behave, and are developed and connected into a ‘strategic architecture’ that drives [...]

Our friends and partners from Egypt’s leading management development agency, RITI, they even managed to launch the book with us in Cairo before we did in London! As I was there with Suresh Mistry from our strategy training business SDS running a 2-day strategy dynamics class for senior executives, they had Wiley ship some of [...]

Pleased to announce the site has been successfully updated. If you have comments or questions please let us know via the contact page.

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We are in the process of updating the site and will be adding more materials as they are developed. The Book launch date is now set as 7th December and a launch party is taking place on 12th December at London Business School: places are limited but if you would like an invite please contact [...]