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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Introducing AI in StrategyBlocks - (A)Ideation and Beyond At StrategyBlocks, we’ve been hard at work getting ready to deliver the best that AI has to offer for our users. We wanted to bring the quality-of-life benefits that you may have already experienced on other platforms, but we also saw a unique opportunity to push the [...]
Why Strategic Ideation is an Excellent AI Use Case Gen AI applications in corporate environments seem, for now, to be focused on automating low-level tasks such as customer service interactions, meeting minutes, and boilerplate code. But what place, if any, does AI have in higher-level decision-making? I argue that AI’s first meaningful introduction to the [...]
Strategic Ideation Top Trumps: The Comparison Concept for Better Strategy The Comparison Concept I still remember clearly, all those (many) years ago, sitting in a circle with my friends in the school playground playing a card game called Super Trumps (more widely known in other parts as Top Trumps). It was a simple concept: the [...]
Introducing StrategyBlocks 6, Strategic Planning for the Modern Organization Strategy planning and execution have never been easy for organizations. The statistics can be disheartening—anywhere from 60-90% of strategic plans fail. There is a myriad of reasons—everything from a poorly designed plan, lack of ownership in the process, failure to properly communicate, not having enough resources [...]
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 [...]
