by Phil Jones | Updated 13 Oct, 2021 | Strategy Facilitation
From facilitating strategy workshops for clients for over 25 years, a number of core principles and a common approach has emerged. It has become clear to me that there are three core components for a successful strategy workshop. They are Quality of conversation...
by Phil Jones | Updated 27 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Have you thought about the how the environment are you in is behaving, whether that be Simple, Complex, Complicated or Chaotic? …and what that means for how you make sense of situations and make decisions? Importantly, if you knew how your context was behaving, would...
by Phil Jones | Updated 27 Oct, 2020 | Thought provokers
I have worked from a perspective of organisations being complex social systems for a long while. A few years ago I came across a framework that was really good at explaining how different types of systems have quite different characteristics that determine how...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Given where we are with Covid-19, I thought I would share six short thoughts on the situation today, and some questions to ponder: What is it about Covid-19 that is fundamentally driving behaviours?The extent of adaptation and change we have seen has been...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Given all that is going on, I thought thge topic of Scenarios, Forecasting and Shaping the future seemed a good theme to get the thinking flowing…. (This was sent to my clients June 2020) Three big topic & questions In the world of strategy, I live in, there are...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Do you have an agile strategy and an agile organisation? Recently a client asked me how to be more agile in the implementation of their strategy. In response, here are eight short thoughts on the underlying thinking necessary to becoming a more agile, learning...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Continuing my theme of testing and explaining your strategy, a short article with a simple idea… Strategy needs an argument (in both senses) In the last article I explained that strategy needs an argument, a logical structure that explain it, using a strategy tablet...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
This time: Two, deceptively simple ways to look at your strategy, to ensure you are explaining it effectively…. and two tests you can easily apply to your strategy document. (for a very quick read, skip down to the “deceptively simple tests 1 and 2) Examining...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Agile & learning organisations, Strategy
In a learning organisation, there are three ways to look at your strategy: one is to consider your strategy as a habit. First let us explore : Strategy as a persistent pattern of behaviourStrategy as a habit (or even an addiction)Humble, yet persistent, strategy Three...
