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 [...]
Beyond Project Status: Gain Better Insight into Enterprise Delivery In the ever-evolving landscape of enterprise portfolio and project management, this month's release by StrategyBlocks offers a powerful new metric function: BLOCK COUNT IN LEVEL. This offers a significant enhancement in how we can measure and enhance our strategic execution. This new calculated metric function complements [...]
Strategic Investment in Logistics: Confident Decisions in Uncertain Times I've been working with several logistics organizations recently, all grappling with the same fundamental challenge: in today's economic climate, they cannot afford to invest in the wrong projects. Every strategic initiative must deliver measurable returns, and the stakes for getting it wrong are financially unacceptable. One [...]
The Ultimate Case Study the Sequel: "From Blueprint to Reality” You've crafted the perfect strategic plan, now what? The journey from blueprint to reality is where most strategies stumble. This is our story of navigating that critical transition and the valuable lessons we learned along the way. Following my previous blog, "The Ultimate Case Study: [...]
