Strategy and the UK General Election 2015
Tweet Image: Poor taste or poor strategy? A mug bearing one of Labour’s 2015 election pledges. I’m interested in the role strategy played a role in how th...
Tag: strategy
‘The three stages of digital transformation’
Tweet Newspapers were among the first businesses to feel the full disruptive force of digital. But they aren’t unique. Best to to watch their struggle, an...
The market with no name (yet)
Tweet There’s a gap in the market for agencies and management consultancies. Or rather, there’s a gap between their two markets which is growing. Last year I ta...
Zipcar – idealism and the realpolitik of scaling a business
Tweet Very interesting article about Zipcar’s turnaround strategy on Inc. Worth reading for the insights on growing a business by the numbers, but also the stor...
Is your digital strategy in the past, present or future tense?
Tweet In April this year, a Gartner survey asked exectuives “what is digital strategy?” – the analysis they developed from the answers is interesting. Ac...
Business model prisoners
Tweet While most companies become prisoners of their business models, one way to deal with this is to have a strong strategy that means you know when shift to n...
Artefact Cards and liminal states: creative thinking breakthrough tools
Tweet There’s a long, long list in my subconscious that I hardly dare look at: Things I Should Have Blogged. The items comprise three types: Important ide...
All episodes: Netflix and strategy
Tweet An imperious Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood stares down at the pedestrians in Times Square from this billboard for House of Cards. I like this poster i...
Lazy narratives and how to be wrong
Tweet Apple-bashing is a game a lot of people these days. John Gruber at Daring Fireball is challenging the emerging narrative of the company’s inevitable...
Team GB Cycling and the magic of marginal gains
Tweet Over the summer I developed a bit of an obsession with Team GB Cycling, like a lot of people. How did they become so successful? So successful that the ga...