Tag Archives: Current Reality

The ‘Gap’ – Excuses or Creative Tension?

Written by Chris. Posted on May 31, 2011. Filed under Change, Ideal World, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Behaviour, Bridge, Created Future, Culture, Current Reality, Gap, Ideal World, Joined-up Decision-making, Real World, Strategic Framework, Strategic Thinking. 4 Comments.

‘Mind the gap’ is a phrase that will be familiar to passengers of subway systems the world over. While clearly a warning in the context of passengers crossing the gap between the station platform and the train door, the same notion potentially holds the key … Read More →

The Transformation Roller Coaster – Grandma’s Advice

Written by Chris. Posted on May 21, 2011. Filed under Change, Ideal World, Innovation, Laws & Principles, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Behaviour, Breakthrough, Capability, Change, Created Future, Culture, Current Reality, Entropy, Fast-moving, Ideal World, Managing Change, People, Performance, Perspective, Real World, Transformation. 1 Comment.

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Grandma is on to something. Despite the rhetoric – annual reports, internal pronouncements and management fads awash with the platitudes of ‘transformational change’, ‘breakthrough performance’, ‘step-change results’, et al – most organisations still choose, consciously or unconsciously, the merry-go-round. In many ways this is understandable … Read More →

Both a noun and a verb.

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Featured, Ideal World, StrataBridge, Strategy. Tagged Both/And, Bridge, Created Future, Current Reality, Gap, Ideal World, Real World, Strategic Thinking. No comments.

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While other consultancies talk “strategy”, but soon revert to short-sighted, tactical, tinkering with the status quo, StrataBridge help you create the bridge from your real world to your ideal world.

We’ll probably never work with each other.

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Featured, Ideal World, StrataBridge. Tagged Best Practice, Created Future, Current Reality, Ideal World, Managing Change, Performance, Questions, Real World. No comments.

We don’t have all the answers… no one does; but we can help you ask the right questions. We don’t offer any shortcuts… there are none to any place worth going to.

S&OP… IBP… WTF?

Written by Chris. Posted on May 6, 2011. Filed under Decision-making, Featured, IBP, S&OP, StrataBridge. Tagged Behaviour, Best Practice, Collaboration, Created Future, Cross-functional, Current Reality, IBP, Ideal World, Integrated Business Planning, Joined-up Decision-making, ownership, People, Process, Processes, Real World, S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning. 9 Comments.

While we have been intimately involved in the creation, development and use of these types of processes over the last 20 or more years, we think the name game is getting out of hand.