I know my company needs a strategic plan, but where do we start? One of our most read blog posts is nearly a decade old, but it continues to be a popular topic. Entitled Strategic Planning: Why Do We Need To Do It?, it outlines the value of having a strategic plan and why your [...]
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 [...]
Strategies to Strengthen Your Business During an Economic Downturn It’s hard to avoid the headlines predicting hard economic times ahead. A recent survey from The Conference Board, touting the C-suite’s focus on a potential downturn, was widely covered, with one ominous headline telling us It's almost impossible to find a CEO who isn't bracing for [...]
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 [...]
Is Your Business Overwhelmed? A Back to Basics Approach to Strategy Can Help The last few years have been topsy turvy for everyone. A pandemic, worldwide lockdowns, a struggling global economy, civil and social unrest, climate change - any number of significant disruptions have required organizations to make big changes, adjust priorities or course correct [...]
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 [...]
Building a Strategy to Meet Your ESG Goals Building a sustainable company is no longer on the list of nice-to-haves. Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics are insights that rank just as important as Return on Investment (ROI) for company executives, shareholders and even consumers. More than just financial benefit, having clearly defined ESG metrics [...]
The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand Blame it on the rise of social media, more socially conscious consumers, or perhaps even the 24-hour news cycle, but never has there been more pressure on companies to weigh in on controversial topics trending in the mainstream consciousness. These topics are often centered around real-time crises—everything [...]
Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help Two years into the pandemic and we’re only beginning to wrap our minds around the impact it has had on the workforce. Global lockdowns and a new, more virtual world spurred ‘The Great Resignation,’ with individuals from all walks of life evaluating their priorities and preferences [...]
When Less is More: The Art of the Subtraction Strategy There’s a reason that Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, is so famous. Her Konmari method of organization focuses on finding what brings you joy and then organizing your space around it. When it was published in 2011, it was the [...]
