The Four Controls to Harness Organizational Innovation The emergence of ideation Earlier this month StrategyBlocks 6 was released, it is a significant advancement in strategic execution management. I am excited about this release as it takes one of the components of execution a major step forward, that being innovation management. In the most recent edition [...]
The What, Why and How of Work Management We all have things we need to do, jobs fill almost every minute of every day, and those moments when we are doing nothing at all, we are generally still thinking about something. As the late Leslie Nielsen said, "Doing nothing is very hard to do… you [...]
ISO 27001 Certification - From Doubter to Believer My first ISO experience Early in my technology career I encountered ISO. My employer was compelled to map and document every aspect and process of the business to gain the necessary certification. It was an arduous and lengthy task, and by the end vast numbers of ring [...]
How to Create a Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map The “Urgent Requirement” I am sure we can all relate to an urgent request for a report of some description. Given that the primary theme of this month’s newsletter is strategic agility, it was coincidental that a colleague asked me to create a balanced scorecard strategy map [...]
Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change First - The letting go One might consider people to be the hardest thing to change, and corporate culture is often overlooked. It often seems the fundamental DNA of the business will always resist change to process and policy. Culture has a way of pulling the entire enterprise [...]
Feature Focus - August Updates to StrategyBlocks There are a number of new features available in the latest release of StrategyBlocks, let's take a quick look at each one. Deeper Integration to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AAD) We have enhanced our integration with AAD which now extends past the current Single Sign-on (SSO) capability. This [...]
Strategic Plan Profile Assessment At StrategyBlocks, we read, review and model many strategic plans. It is important that we can interpret and understand the plan’s intent quickly. This is the case for other stakeholders with an interest in a business’s strategic direction too. If you are a local government organization, the community has an interest [...]
Feature Focus - StrategyBlocks Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint It seems almost all organizations today are constantly striving for greater strategic transparency and want to share elements of their strategic plan with a wide variety of stakeholders. It could be shared internally or externally (e.g., to the community, customers, students, partners etc.) - and of course [...]
Strategic Dashboarding and the Use of Imagery A picture is worth a thousand words I am a great fan of including imagery as part of my dashboard design and layouts. When used properly, images can add so much to a visualization; however, many would rather fill any spare white space with another number or a [...]
We can all be Strategic Leaders - Characteristics of Successful Ones Visionary or Operator? Following a recent 2021 study by PwC on Harvard Business Review, they recognized some “key characteristics” that were desirable to be a future successful leader. In the past (and perhaps still today), it was common that in the significant majority of [...]
