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
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
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 ›
How not to manage recruitment
You all have conducted interviews for junior, mid-career, senior, and executive positions. What do you look for in your new hires? If the online/print-media advertisement is something to go by, in your new hires, you are looking for all or… Read More ›
2017 – Business Un-usual? Series 3 of 4
Last week we shared how individuals can make their 2017 resolutions more feasible. This week’s blog switches attention to the organization. Should organizations, like human beings, make new year resolutions? After all, an organization, if run well, will either have… Read More ›
2017 – Business Un-usual? Series 2 of 4
This week the Effectiveness lab discusses the framework for delivering effective individual new year resolutions Very aware of the fact that resolutions are abandoned only a few days into the new year, we have to assume that it continues to… Read More ›
The false dichotomy – employees running personal micro-enterprises – Series 2 of 2
Merry Christmas to you all from Nakabugu in Uganda! So, we concluded blog series 1, the ‘false dichotomy – employees running personal micro-enterprises’ with a question: What fails private micro-enterprises in Uganda? On this 25th Day of December 2016, and… Read More ›
The false dichotomy – employees running personal micro-enterprises – Series 1 of 2
There are four factors of production – land, capital, labour, and entrepreneurship. In the past one needed all four to run a viable enterprise; however, in an increasingly digital and networked world, you may only need a combination of two… Read More ›
Trumpism & the entrepreneurial thread
We all have been bombarded with news items, video clips, RSS feeds on President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory. Academics are at work trying to understand the emerging phenomena of Trump – let us baptise the new phenomenon ‘Trumpism’. Lecture theatres… Read More ›
Problem solving – like finding a needle in a haystack
At certain points on your leadership journey, you will have confronted matters related to organisational complexity, persistent problems, as well as multiple and ineffective solutions to problems. At times, solutions to problems evade us – problem solving can become a… Read More ›
