How to Create a Happier Workplace Through Effective Work Management Setting the Scene Let me preface this blog post with the statement that I don’t know anything about large-scale construction projects and am not in any way trying to be contentious. However, it is an example of an industry that we can all identify with. [...]
Measuring Success: Evaluating Company Strategy With Performance Metrics We talk a lot on this blog about how to create a successful strategic plan—after all, companies with clearly defined and documented plans grow 30% faster. But how do you know if your plan is successful? This can often be where strategy falls apart. As a recent [...]
StrategyBlocks 6 Wins 2023 Stratus Award for Cloud Collaboration We’re happy to announce that The Business Intelligence Group has awarded StrategyBlocks 6 a 2023 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing in their annual business award program. The organization sought to identify the companies, products and people that are offering unique solutions that take advantage of cloud [...]
Tired of Hearing How Strategic Plans Fail? Here’s How to Succeed You’ve likely heard the well-known statistic that 90% of strategic plans fail. It’s easy to believe the fault lies with a poorly designed plan or strategy, but even 67% of well-formulated strategies fail, due to poor execution. Our managing director Craig Catley recently wrote [...]
Three Strategic Challenges That May Be Holding Your Business Back Strategic Communication When we first engage with a business who needs help with their strategy, their top concern is that they don’t have a clear and concise strategy that everyone in the organization understands. Communication is essential for any business, but it is especially important [...]
Three Tips for Bringing AI Into Your Strategy Planning The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 unleashed a new era for artificial intelligence. Within just a few short months, investment in AI has exploded, alongside a crop of new startups, new use cases, new job positions and a host of other exciting, challenging and even [...]
Get the Most Out of StrategyBlocks with Free Training StrategyBlocks is a powerful strategic planning tool that can help businesses of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and execute effective strategies. Like any new tool, it can take time to learn how to use it effectively and set up your optimal strategic plan. StrategyBlocks [...]
Value Stream Management: An Introduction Businesses across industries are facing a new fundamental problem: connecting the work they have committed to deliver with the right goal in the form of a resultant key performance indicator. It goes both ways, too, as there are a near infinite combination of data points to measure and many possible [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – New Dashboard Object Padding & Progress Bar Colors Dashboard Object Padding Having a snap-to-grid option for laying out the objects on your dashboards is very helpful, you can arrange everything to line up quickly, easily, and perfectly. However, there are those occasions when you just need to nudge an object ever [...]
StrategyBlocks Feature Focus – User Abilities StrategyBlocks User Roles Our approach to user management has always been to keep it simple! From an administration point of view, this meant not having to manage multiple tiers of users, each with a different purpose and a different cost. So, in StrategyBlocks, there are only three different User [...]
