StrategyBlocks Feature Focus: Track Delivery Activity by Owner Sharper filters for faster answers A status report can tell you what's true right now. It can't tell you what's gone quiet. A Block sitting at 60% complete looks the same whether it got there through three weeks of steady delivery or three weeks of nobody touching [...]
Nearly Half of AI Projects Won’t Survive 2027. If Yours Is Inside Your Strategic Plan, It Stands a Much Better Chance Gartner projects that over 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027. That's a projection, not a count of what's already failed, but the reasons behind it are [...]
Executive Decision Making: Why Visibility Beats Judgement Slow down. Gather more input. Decide with a clear head when every option feels risky. That's the advice on repeat across every leadership newsletter right now. None of it is wrong. It's also not what's actually shaping the quality of executive decision making at most companies. The problem [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus: A Faster, Cleaner Dashboard Workspace What's New on Your Dashboard A cleaner workspace and faster editing: reorganized controls, a redesigned toolbox, smarter search and undo, and more control over how dashboards get shared. Editing and workspace controls A redesigned drag-and-drop toolbox The dashboard object toolbox has a full visual makeover, built [...]
Idea Cloning is Here: Build on What Works in StrategyBlocks Great ideas can come from anywhere in your organization: a proposed new project, a suggestion, or an entirely new high-level strategy. The StrategyBlocks Ideas module has always provided a centralized intake hub where new initiatives and business cases can be proposed, evaluated, and approved. But [...]
Six months in: 5 questions your strategy dashboard should be able to answer If you're running a mid-year strategy review, you probably already have dashboards telling you how your strategy is tracking. You have visibility. You have data. You have a view of what's on track and what isn't that gets updated regularly and shared with [...]
Your Strategic Dashboard Belongs on Your Website Most organizations build dashboards for themselves. A live view of strategic performance, visible to the leadership team, the operations team, or whoever owns the work, updated as the work progresses. That is genuinely useful. But it is also only half the picture. When strategic dashboards can be shared [...]
What AI Cannot Do for Your Strategy Chances are your team has used AI in some part of your strategy process by now. Maybe you used it to generate ideas during a planning cycle, to synthesize research, or to draft a strategic narrative. A smaller number of teams have gone further, integrating AI into the [...]
Feature Focus: Milestone Commentary and Page Duplication A completion percentage tells you where something stands. It does not tell you whether that number reflects three weeks of steady progress or three weeks of a team quietly working around an issue nobody has flagged yet. This May, two new StrategyBlocks features address exactly that: Milestone Commentary [...]
The 90-day Strategy Review that Actually Drives Decisions For most organizations running a January planning cycle, April marks 90 days into the year. It is also, typically, when the first quarterly review lands on the calendar. If your planning year runs on a different schedule, the same logic applies: 90 days in, something important has [...]
