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 [...]
Is Your Strategy Execution Drifting? How to Tell Most strategies don't fail loudly. There's no single decision that derails them, no meeting where someone says "we're abandoning this." They just quietly lose their grip on how the organization operates, until one day the distance between the plan and reality is too large to ignore. That [...]
More Signal, Less Noise: New Reporting and Admin Features in StrategyBlocks If you spend time managing a live strategic plan, you know the problem. The data is there. The structure is there. But getting a clean, contextual view of what's happening, and keeping the underlying model tidy enough to trust, can take more effort than [...]
Is Your Business a Machine or an Animal? Be the Octopus! We have long been taught to view the organization as a machine. It’s a comfortable metaphor: blueprints, gears, systems, predictability, and control. But there is a problem with machines, they are rigid. When the environment changes with time, as will always happen, the machine [...]
Strategic Planning Software for Growing Cities: The City of Kelowna Story In the pursuit of strategic clarity, the City of Kelowna, a rapidly growing municipality in British Columbia, Canada, transformed its approach to planning and execution using strategic planning software from StrategyBlocks. Kelowna is a vibrant hub, home to 170,000 residents and managed by approximately [...]
Planner is Here! Unified Business Planning with StrategyBlocks Simplifying the Path from Ideation to Execution Ever feel like planning your big ideas involves juggling too many screens? You're trying to nail down what needs doing, when it needs to happen, and who's going to do it, but you're constantly jumping between different views just to [...]
Leading the Way in 2026: Sharpening Your Strategy and Execution The year 2026 is here, and with technology like AI reshaping how we work and global events constantly shifting the landscape, honing your leadership strategy for 2026 is no longer just an advantage – it's fundamental for success. Leaders are looking for clarity and control, [...]
Year-End Review: Shaping Tomorrow's Strategy, Together As the year winds down, it's a natural time for us all to pause. We look back at the journey, the strides made, the hurdles overcome, and the invaluable lessons learned along the way. For organizations, this isn't just a moment for individual reflection; it’s an opportunity for leaders [...]
The Most Read Strategy Blogs of 2025 This year, readers' interests clearly pointed towards innovation, clarity, and practical guidance for navigating complex strategy. From enhanced delivery insights to new frameworks and technology, you've shown a strong appetite for transforming ambitious visions into concrete results These are the articles that captured the most attention throughout 2025. [...]
