Navigating Outcome Delivery Plans: The New UK Reporting System In an effort to improve planning and spending, the British government recently instituted regulations around strategy reporting. The goal, according to the Public Accounts Committee, is to better define how planning and performance information is central to not only ensuring funding, but to proving out the [...]
The Do’s and Don'ts of Strategic Planning for Local Governments Strategy planning is not just for corporations. At StrategyBlocks, we work with a wide number of municipal and county governments across the US to help organize, visualize and execute on their strategic plans for their communities. Often, these entities don’t have dedicated individuals with a [...]
Working with StrategyBlocks Milestones Milestones Purpose Milestones offer a different method of capturing delivery confidence at the lowest level of the value tree (a leaf block). Rather than using the familiar Progress Slider (0-100%), delivery is described as a fixed subset of deliverables (a strategic check-list). A milestone definition can be created centrally by an [...]
City Governments: Tips to Secure and Better Managing Grant Funding In March of this year, United States President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), a sweeping stimulus package that offered aid not just to individuals and corporations, but also $360 billion to state and local governments. While this money has [...]
4 Primary Factors that Drive Successful Strategic Execution Projects There are many factors that lead to the delivery of a successful transformational project, and it really does not matter what the technology is. The purpose of this article is to focus on what makes a successful implementation of a strategic performance management system. Based on [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – February New Fully Customizable Metrics Object Last year we added a new View Type for the Custom Dashboard Block Object. It provides the ability to use HTML to create your own highly customized dashboard objects, when you need to create something that is not available from the existing view types. [...]
Strategic Portfolio Management: The 4 Key Categories of Portfolios The StrategyBlocks team are giving a lot of thought to the process of categorizing strategic thinking and activity. Through discussions with customers, there seems to be a consistent challenge: “what work management programs (projects, portfolios, initiatives) should we really be focusing on and investing in … what [...]
Overcoming 2020: Three ways to get your business strategy back on track December is typically the time where we look ahead and create a plan for the coming year. As the holidays close in, it’s the perfect opportunity to assess what has worked over the course of the last 12 months and what created the [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – November Block Type Selector Buttons Our goal is to continuously innovate and create new ways to make StrategyBlocks more efficient and easy to navigate. Recently, it became apparent that some users didn't realise they could change the look of the block. So we replaced the old block type (face) selector [...]
StrategyBlocks new Features Release – October In the world of StrategyBlocks for a number of years BLUE = GOOD. There was a good reason for this, red and green is the most common form of color blindness and this presents as a big problem when you are assessing the success or failure of a piece [...]
