StrategyBlocks Tips & Tricks: Rapid Block Updates With The Kanban Board Picture a familiar scene. The infrastructure team is in the meeting room, coffee in hand, working through a portfolio of 14 projects. Someone asks, "Where are we really at with Bike & Trail?" In most organizations, that question triggers a hunt through spreadsheets and [...]
Strategic Prioritization: Why Your “No” Doesn’t Stick Every planning cycle produces a list of things you decided not to do: a market you chose not to enter, a program you chose not to build, an initiative that got a fair hearing and still didn't make the cut. Deciding what not to do is the visible, [...]
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 [...]
