StrategyBlocks Feature Focus: Ownership Without Access, and More This month’s updates give you more control over who can access your StrategyBlocks model and how much detail your tables show, plus more room to work in the Options Pane. 01 Assign ownership without granting access You can now remove a user’s access to StrategyBlocks while keeping [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unlocking Strategic Excellence: The Interwoven AI Advantage for Your Organization Strategic planning and execution are at the heart of every successful organization. While the journey from vision to impact can be complex, requiring careful thought and continuous attention, AI is now transforming how we approach strategic management. At StrategyBlocks, we believe AI's true power isn't [...]
