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 [...]
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 [...]
Corporate Strategy at Every Level - What Role do You Play? We talk often about how the C-suite and business leaders can help steer corporate strategy, and with good reason. The vision and goals for a company start at the top, and creating strategy to meet those goals is an important part of leadership. Strategy [...]
Roadmap to Achieving Strategic Adaptation The strategic planning trend Toward the end of 2020 we analyzed some StrategyBlocks usage trends which gave us a glimpse into the frequency of strategic planning cycles. There was a strong indicator that the cycle of strategic renewal was gathering pace. That means the way we map out the course [...]
Five Reasons to Improve Strategy Execution Now A couple of years ago we shared a brief article on the benefits of strategic planning. We highlighted only a few examples, particularly as it helps internally with company organization and communication. Still today, one of the first questions we are asked is “why should our company have [...]
Transforming City Government, One Data-Driven Decision at a Time City governments across the US have been under a spotlight in recent years, credited with groundbreaking initiatives and managing through unforeseen upheaval in everything from natural disasters to a global pandemic. Sometimes at odds with, or even forgotten by, federal government officials, cities have forged ahead, [...]
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 [...]
The Evolution of Strategy ~ A 2020 Reboot Four years ago, Caroline from the StrategyBlocks team published a short blog discussing the Evolution of Strategy. Over the past 1541 days that blog has been read on average every 6 hours, everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and that frequency just keeps accelerating. While we can perhaps [...]
Transformational Strategic Execution: Experimentation and Learning Transformational Strategic Execution (TSE) This month I want to cover the last of the four facets of Transformational Strategic Execution. So, let’s quickly review how we got to this point. It can be useful to apply a best-practice, high-level framework to the way we think about business strategy. How, [...]
Strategic Vision Holds the Key to Not Just Survive, But Thrive, in a Post-COVID World John F. Kennedy once said, “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." The current global pandemic has brought this concept to life in new ways, as every company is scrambling to recalibrate and learn how to effectively run their [...]
