Great to see SMS ask if there should be Certification in strategic management. I’ve raise before the need for this to be a truly professional discipline, so we can nail what should be expected of robust leadership of this critical role. A conference session will ask some intriguing questions: Continue reading »
Sep 282009
I’ve been posting on strategy in the downturn for a while now, but what makes me really angry is the strategic incompetence that led to this mess [search 'incompetence' for previous posts on this]. But now I’m puzzled – Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Strategy+Business, Economist, etc, etc, are full of advice from strategy experts on how to survive the problem, so I wondered how much they warned folk before that this was likely to happen? .. and how much advice they offered on how to make sure your organization would avoid trouble in the first place? Continue reading »
Just heard a keynote talk from Prof David Teece – father of the ‘dynamic capabilities’ concept. He has an outstanding record not only as a top strategy prof but also as entrepreneur and consultant … problem is Continue reading »
