by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Socialising strategy, instead of merely communicating it, is an idea my clients seem to love. But how to do that? Socialising strategy starts by creating a shared mental model of your strategy and its underlying thinking. That shared mental model goes on to underpin...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Something has been bothering me for a while and I wanted to explore the question with you… 1.1. The problem – the challenge…. When we think about strategy, the traditional pattern is: External world – what is happening? And where are we in...
by Phil Jones | Updated 10 Jan, 2018 | Communicating & Socialising Strategy
Socialising strategy, instead of merely communicating it, is an idea my clients love. But how to do that? Here are six tips to help you socialise your strategy, by creating a shared mental model of your strategy and its underlying thinking. That shared mental model...
by Phil Jones | Updated 6 Oct, 2020 | Thought Provoker Newsletters
Given the various conversations I have with clients about strategy and culture and performance, I thought you would find this interesting… In an interview with Jim Collins (Author of Good to Great and Built to Last), about his years of research into organisational...
by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Language of strategy, Strategic planning, Thought provokers
A strategy document serves a different purpose to a strategic plan. Confusion between these different documents causes good strategies to be described badly. The difference between strategy document and strategic plan At Excitant, we make a very clear...
by Phil Jones | Updated 3 Jan, 2018 | 4G Balanced Scorecard, Paradigm shifts
Clients are asking us, “How do we move away from an annual strategy process, to treating strategy as a process of continuous learning?” Traditional Strategy: deliberate, top down and annual First, let us look at how strategy is commonly described. Strategy...
by Phil Jones | Updated 15 Mar, 2018 | What is strategy
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. ...
by Phil Jones | Updated 11 Jan, 2018 | Strategy
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...
by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Mar, 2024 | Quality of conversation, Thought provokers
I am sure you have heard the advice. It usually begins, “It is easy….” and continues…. You just run a bit faster to improve your marathon time You just go out and get some more clients, and sales will increase You just pull all your blogs...