Strategy
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What is strategy: Strategy as a persistent pattern of behaviour
A powerful and useful view of strategy is strategy as a persistent pattern of behaviour. When a client tells me “We don’t have a strategy”, I don’t believe them. I use this approach to tease out what their really strategy is, or has been. ...
ISO9000:2015 Strategic Direction – A strategy management perspective
Are you planning to upgrade to ISO9000:2015? If so, this article provides practical advice for organisations wanting to establish and demonstrate the links between their Quality Management System to the ISO9000:2015 Strategic Direction requirements. In this post I...What stops long term thinking and planning in organisations?
One of the things I find as a consultant is the need to discuss with the client “The presenting problem”, and then to explore, to diagnose to find out what actually is the deeper, underlying problem. Only when you find and address that, do you have a...
Why fly an untested strategy: Testing your organisation’s strategy against the external environment
You would not fly a plane or drive a car that was untested – so why do we sometimes try to execute untested strategies? There are lots of ways to test a business strategy and check its validity. Recently, I was running a strategy workshop for an Executive team...
