Your strategy is a living document. A work of continuous progress. Leave it alone for too long and it will rot. Nurture it and you’ll be rewarded. How? By applying this simple process improvement methodology to your strategic processes. Here…
Traditionally businesses have operated on a need-to-know basis. People had access only to information that was deemed essential by their managers. Other “more sensitive” information was protected and hidden. Organizational transparency is the practice of sharing information regarding the organization’s…
All organizations recognize the importance of communicating their strategy to their people. However, few do a very good job on it. That’s evident in companies’ inability to execute their strategy. The common approach to strategy communication includes a day or…
One of the best parts of the 2021 Cascade Strategy Fest was hearing speakers and participants share mental models that they used to cultivate strong strategic thinking. Often these models encoded some timeless business wisdom but did so in a…
One of the most resonant themes that we saw coming out of the Strategy Fest was how important understanding your customer base actually is. As strategists, we can often get caught up with preconceived notions as to who our ideal…
Suppose you ever read about innovation or strategy in a textbook. In that case, you’ll find a myriad of wonderfully inventive frameworks, tactics, and theories that wax lyrical about how a business can craft and nurture the right strategic plan…