How to Avoid Change Fatigue

Jul 3, 2017 | Strategic Planning, Strategy

How to avoid change fatigue – All businesses know that ‘change is a constant’ – but where it presents an endless series of seemingly-disparate projects, fatigue can set in. Any manager who has experienced a carousel of internal change...

Creating a High Performance Culture

Jun 19, 2017 | Strategy

Creating a High Performance Culture – Peter Drucker, the legendary management guru says that ‘business culture eats strategy’. By this, he means that the most successful companies are those which build positive, powerful high performance culture. But...

Realistic Business Objectives

Jun 15, 2017 | Strategy

Every company needs a clearly defined set of business objectives as part of its business strategy. These objectives should follow the SMART model – being specific in nature, measurable in output with key performance indicators, achievable with stretch and...

Strategy for Beginners

Jun 5, 2017 | Strategic Planning, Strategy

Strategy for Beginners – Strategy is a process just like any other process.  Unfortunately this simple fact is often forgotten. All too often organisations think about strategy once or twice a year and forget about it until prompted by a senior manager.  Unless...

Strategic Graffiti

Jun 25, 2015 | Strategy

In his book ‘The Execution Shortcut’ Jeroen De Flander introduces the notion of Strategic Graffiti. This is when a strategic message is passed from one level to another (or even sideways) and the message is either embellished or condensed or changed in some way that...

Strategy Execution Summit 2015 – Success!

May 28, 2015 | Strategic Planning, Strategy

The Strategy Execution Summit 2015 held this month in Washington DC has once again been a tremendous success. The summit, held jointly by The Balanced Scorecard Institute (holders of the industry de facto standard balanced scorecard methodology) and Spider Strategies...