by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Facilitating Strategy workshops, Strategy Facilitation
When facilitating a strategy workshop with a team, you need a view of where the organisation is going. Clients often say they want to work on their “Vision” or vision statement. We do that. However, they quickly realise that a “Tangible...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Emergent strategy, Strategy as a learning process, Thought Provoker Newsletters, Thought provokers
.Three simple thoughts about how teh pandemic should be shaping how we think about our strategy, and how we manage our strategy (after a long break from my emails) The past two years have taught us how to manage a far more flexible workforce in dramatically changing...
by Phil Jones | Updated 23 Feb, 2022 | Facilitating Strategy workshops, Strategy Facilitation
Having facilitated 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 23 Feb, 2022 | Strategy, Thought Provoker Newsletters, Thought provokers, What is strategy
My irregular newsletter covers a wide range of ways of looking at your Strategy. This one covers: Some common, yet inadequate, views of strategy: often necessary: never sufficient…Typical characteristics or “A strategy”So, what is “Strategy”?Strategy as a...
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 23 Feb, 2022 | Thought Provoker Newsletters, 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...
