Tag Archives: Perspective

Failed strategies, like nuclear incidents and plane crashes, only rarely occur due to one catastrophic exogenous shock.  These disasters, along with industrial accidents, oil spills, sinking ships and other man-made calamities, usually being the result of the cumulative effect of many smaller – individually insignificant … Read More →

Do you have a strategy?  And what are your chances of executing it? Is it based on penetrating insights and clear choices about direction, or is it endless analysis or superficial PowerPoint template-style presentations? Is there a rich dialogue taking advantage of the full spectrum … Read More →

Assuming you have made some big choices and so are clear on your organisation’s strategic direction – how are you going to bring your strategy to life

The London Underground Map has long been an example of fantastic graphic design and cartographic innovation; simplifying the complex labyrinth of the tube network and providing a straightforward representation of the many routes, connections and entry and exit points.  This is a particularly powerful depiction … Read More →

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 →

Making trade-offs is an integral part of developing meaningful strategies, a critical element of owning a particular space in your customers’ mind, and a powerful means of focusing your organisation on what to do to win – and just as importantly, what not to do. … Read More →

The StrataBridge approach has been forged by forces working on us all. While these forces often go unnoticed, ignored or misunderstood, they are so pervasive they shape our environment and condition our behaviours