Posted by Kim Warren on April 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Amongst the continuing stream of articles on this, some good ones [I've left out some bad or downright dangerous ones] include: Read more
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Posted by Kim Warren on December 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Some sound principles in a brief Memo to the CEO. Particularly good is the focus on opportunity today’s conditions offer for sound firms. Read more
Posted by Kim Warren on December 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
How to win by changing the game by head of Booz N America business Cesare Mainardi, and colleagues Paul Leinwand and Steffen Lauster makes a strong case for building capabilities to capture new opportunities, rather than looking inward at what you already have. Capabilities feature strongly in current strategy writing, but seem hard to make practical. The article implies, though, that they have a way of making capabilities concrete and measurable, to arrive at a ‘capability coherence’ indicator that seems to correlate with profitability – at least in the consumer products sector. This is a big step forward from the abstract and obscure concepts that feature in academic articles on the topic. Read more
Filed under Strategy · Tagged with Booz & Co, capabilities, Cesare Mainardi, consumer products, core competence, economist, HBR, Honda, Paul Leinwand, Steffen Lauster, strategic management, strategy+business