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I have worked in International development, with respected International development agencies, for the last 15 years.

I continue to be fascinated by what brings and takes away EFFECTIVENESS in both People and Organisations.

I'm especially interested in helping organisations and people become effective at what they do.

• Strategy management – the death of ‘process’ and the rise of ‘outcome’

  By AB Gabazira on September 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Well, it’s only right that we start this blog with definitions of process and outcome. It would be ingenuous of us to assume that you all understand the two strategy management imperatives. Process: a series of actions or steps taken to… Read More ›

• Strategy monitoring – two critical drivers

  By AB Gabazira on September 10, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Yes, managers need to understand the A-Z of strategy: its design, execution, and monitoring. This blog discusses the last piece of the strategy-management jigsaw – monitoring.  Apparently, ‘what gets measured gets managed’; so if strategy is meant to help businesses attain… Read More ›

• Strategy as miniature images and maps of a business (2)

  By AB Gabazira on September 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  As a natural progression from last week, this week’s blog delves into the ‘making’ of miniature strategy. We have explored in past blogs the conventional and hybrid (the in-between) strategy making approaches. We now shift our conversation to discussing discontinuous… Read More ›

• Strategy as miniature images and maps of a business

  By AB Gabazira on August 27, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Picture yourself at this grande so called corporate strategy workshop, working in the opulence of a five-star hotel with all the honchos at your organization in attendance. At this sacred event, you will be surrounded by classic consultants elaborating every… Read More ›

• Effective strategy and resilience

  By AB Gabazira on August 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  We have discussed at the Effectiveness lab the new normal for organisational strategists The organisational development (OD.) power-play and dynamics have shifted in favour of intertwined and horizontal than vertical drivers. Siloed approaches to OD. have no place in the… Read More ›

• Strategy execution – from theory to practice (2)

  By AB Gabazira on August 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  According to McKinsey, 70% of change efforts fall short of the expected results. Put another way, for all the change work you leadership gurus do and boast about, only 30% gets you a good measure of efficacy. Even giants, as… Read More ›

• Strategy execution – from theory to practice (1)

  By AB Gabazira on August 6, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  This blog intends to take you beyond understanding strategy execution, the focus of last week’s blog, to mastering how to attain the normally elusive execution-excellence. And as we will find out later, it boils down to certain specific leadership traits…. Read More ›

• Strategy execution

  By AB Gabazira on July 30, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Having discussed what strategy is as well as its design, it’s about time that we considered how to get the best out of company strategy – execution. Execution is different from implementation as will be shown later on this blog…. Read More ›

• Strategy making – from theory to practice

  By AB Gabazira on July 16, 2017 • ( 5 )

  It’s time to discuss the nuts and bolts of strategy making. Early in this Strategy OV series, the Effectiveness lab defined strategy as: a plan, a unique and valuable position that others cannot match, or a journey that takes a… Read More ›

• Strategy making (1)

  By AB Gabazira on July 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  This week, the Effective lab focuses on the making of strategy. Just like the word strategy is not understood well yet used by many people in their daily lexicon, strategy design is an equally mixed experience. It’s difficult to design what… Read More ›