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 ›
Strategy
Effective organizations can be compared to a modern vehicle – it has many parts, some moving and others static. Yet, all parts have been put together in a system, to deliver a certain: amount of horse-power, comfort, specific niche like ‘4×4′ off road, town runner, or heavy goods carrier. Every part of a vehicles’ system has a role it plays in making the vehicle meet its niche-standard.
Effective strategy, and note the word EFFECTIVE, is the art of defining the vehicle, the value the vehicle brings to the buyer, and assembling all its moving and static parts, to meet the demand of the buyer.
Strategy is a fascinating art, whose success depends on how EFFECTIVENESS is delivered in organizations
Effective strategy and resilience
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)
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)
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
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
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 Management – the new normal (3)
And finally, the solution to the so-called new normal. What can organisations and individuals do to effectively address the new normal? The Effectiveness lab’s bionically-balanced entity theory is an obvious answer to the new normal. It’s a multi-faceted and inter-twined… Read More ›
Strategy Management – the new normal (2)
So, if we all agree that we are witnessing a new normal in strategy management, the question has to be: how do we deal with the new normal? However, before discussing solutions to the new-normal enigma, we explore below the… Read More ›
Strategy management – the new normal (1)
Our last blog defined strategy and ended on a wish that: you all should be able to define strategy. This blog focuses on the shifting strategy management paradigm – the Effectiveness lab calls it ‘the new normal‘. Strategy theorists like… Read More ›
Many can’t define strategy yet use the word all the time – can you?
This week’s blog is the first in a series that discusses the second of the Effectiveness lab’s four organizational vitals (OV) – strategy. Before delving deep into the strategy OV and its interconnectedness to the other OV’s, we have to… Read More ›
