Emergent strategy is not lazy strategy

An interesting discussion about emergent strategy came out of a presentation I did last night, for a group of Directors, about thinking strategically in the current economic climate.

Early on I made a clear distinction between deliberate strategy and emergent strategy.  Deliberate strategy is where you have a goal and your plans are focused around [...]

Rapidly evolving and changing strategy

How do you handle rapidly evolving and changing strategy with a balanced scorecard?

Today I opened my email and found out that my “BT yahoo search is now powered by the nations favourite search engine – Google!”. Yes Yahoo uses Google. It is hard to believe that these rivals from only a few years ago [...]

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecard Part 7

Principles of Effective Balanced Scorecard Part 7

“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” Arie de Geus

Whilst chatting with a manager of a largish organisation I suggested it was useful to think about organisations and how they learn, in the same way we think about people [...]