Strategy execution

Modern information technology started four decades ago, yet in most major corporations, IT remains an expensive mess. This is partly because the relatively...

Are you winning, or boldly going nowhere?

Too many organizations descend into underperformance because they can't confront the painful gap between their strategy and the reality of their capabilities,...

What assumptions can you prove wrong today?

When William Bratton was appointed police commissioner of New York City in 1994, turf wars over jurisdiction and funding were rife, promotion bore little...

It assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop.

They're nominally and ultimately responsible for strategy, but today's CEOs have less and less time to devote to it. As a result, CEOs are appointing...

Choose a strategy-making method suited to your industry’s competitive conditions.

Just a few years ago, becoming an entrepreneur was pretty simple. All you needed was some idea--any idea--a little experience, and venture capital funds...

A well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it's heading.

MANUEL LAGOS CID/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES Boris Johnson was a magazine editor at age 35, a shadow cabinet minister for the UK’s Conservative Party at 39, and the mayor of London at 43. Known for his unruly hair, off-the-cuff charisma and an ambition that might include the prime minister’s office, he will run for Parliament […]

by Melissa Raffoni Strategic planning gets all the cachet and all the ink, but the most creative, visionary strategic planning is useless if it isn't...

I’ve spent some of my professional life in strategy research and consulting organizations, where developing diagnostic frameworks on competition is the name of the game. But as comprehensive and complex as they are, these models are often unhelpful (or impenetrable) to front-line practitioners who might use them to improve day-to-day decisions and actions. In contrast, […]

The companies that are most successful at creating long-term shareholder value tend to be those that systematically make acquisitions through good times...

2008 and several years preceding it will not go down in history as the best years for good decisions. While we did make a groundbreaking (and, so far it seems, pretty good) decision to elect a different kind of man as U.S. president, we have made a lot of bad ones, both individually and organizationally. […]

Leaders need to use more vivid imagery to communicate their vision for the future.

An inside look at the organization's radical approach.

Satisfied with doing good, too few foundations work strategically to do better.

When too much of a good thing is never enough.

A simple know-think-do framework can work wonders.