by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Mar, 2018 | Strategy
One of the difficulties with strategic away days and strategic planning days is in their name: they are only a day. Last week I had a day and a half with a team: A team that hardly new each other as they were coming from four different countries and different...
by Phil Jones | Updated 18 Oct, 2017 | Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations - The Book
There was a short delay before Strategy Mapping for learning Organizations was available in the US, but checking in with Amazon.com it is now available. You can link through to Amazon.com easily via this link. Strategy maps are fundamental to effective balanced...
by Phil Jones | Updated 27 May, 2020 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations - The Book
My publishers tell me that Strategy Mapping for Learning organizations is now available as an ebook. If you are looking for an electronic version of my Book about strategy maps, balanced scorecards for agile organisations and how to design, implement and use...
by Phil Jones | Updated 18 Oct, 2017 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations - The Book
It’s official folks. You can now order and get copies of my guide to developing, implementing and using Strategy Maps to create effective, agile, strategic balanced scorecards. I give away a lot in this book. I recently met a colleague over dinner and...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Feb, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri, Examples & case studies
Recently a client, a very large Government body, was having a few problems with their planning process. How to engage with their managers, getting the tools of strategy and performance to make coherent sense as a whole, making the story of their strategy clear,...
by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Nov, 2011 | Examples & case studies, Strategy
This post is about using the approach in “Good Strategy Bad Strategy” to question, review and develop an organisation’s strategy. I think “Good Strategy – Bad Strategy” by Richard Rumelt is one of the best books on strategy I...
by Phil Jones | Updated 18 Oct, 2017 | Communicating bad news
So it is now day three of the great blackberry outage, and what do we know? I know emails come to my desktop but not to my blackberry. Then suddenly, 4-8 hours later I get a burst onto my blackberry. Not good when I am out and about. Well if you go to the RIM...
by Phil Jones | Updated 26 Oct, 2017 | Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations - The Book
I cannot tell you how chuffed I am. I will admit I even did a little dance the other day. Why you might ask? Well, my new book, “Strategy Mapping for Learning organizations” is due out in December 2011, and I am delighted, honoured and humbled that David...
by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Jul, 2017 | Avoiding communication mistakes, Communicating & Socialising Strategy
How do we make sure that our mission, vision and strategy are memorable and understood? How do we make them sticky, so they stay in peoples’ minds? Making strategy memorable In the book, Made to stick, by Chip and Dan Heath, there is a lovely example of how to...