Strategy Bridge Builder

Once you have the right strategy in place, your success is only as good as your ability to execute the strategy. Strategy Bridge Builder helps you to eliminate the "strategy chasm" by managing your goals, strategies, portfolios, projects and people in one system. Request a free trial.

Business Strategy Tools

While there are many business strategy tools, the "positioning school of strategy formulation" tools help businesses to think through how best position themselves. A review of key tools developed by Michael E. Porter. Continue Reading

Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education

Higher education may be ripe for "disruptive innovation." We all look up to and model after Harvard. Its reputation is stellar. However, the total cost to produce one graduate is staggering. In 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored a study carried out by McKinsey & Company. The objective was simple: to determine how to produce more highly qualified graduates at lower costs.

Strategic Management Models

The right strategic management model can play a critical role in helping you to optimize your efforts. Review the different strategic management models to help you determine the pros and cons of each, and to help you determine what model works best for you in your given situation.

Summary of "The Future of Decision Making"

Most people make decisions based on logic, data and conventional wisdom. Data or logic can be half-baked, and lead us to make decisions where we ignore our experience and better judgment. The best decisions are generally based on accumulated experience.

Summary of "Innovator's DNA"

This may be the important business book of this decade on the topic of strategic innovation. The depth of the research, and the practical and memorable way the research is presented in this book is impressive. It seems clear that those that become the masters of the insights shared in this book will become the business leaders of the future[...}

How to Predict the Future

"Scott Anderson with CNN wrote, "Eric is one of the most impressive thinkers I've met in Washington." Eric states, "it is not that the study of the future is somehow incoherent as a managerial discipline. In fact, it has one of the best, most consistent methodologies of any intellectual field."[...]

The Predictioneer's Game

Bruce writes that "accurate predication relies on science, not artistry---and certainly not the sleight of hand. It is a reflection of the power of logic and evidence, and testimony to the progress being made in demystifying the world of human thought and decision." The author claims to have a 90% accuracy rate with his model[...]

Wisdom of Crowds

Gathering information and making decisions is at the crux of good business. Leaving to the few elite may be wrong wrong-headed. In the book The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki finds that non-experts are collectively smarter than individual experts or even small groups of experts[...]

The Starfish and the Spider

Throughout history, societies were organized around hierarchies. There were always those that wanted to rule and conquer. Hierarchies were used to control and carry out orders. Will this pattern continue? There is a trend toward decentralization, empowerment and contribution[...]

New Market Penetration Approach

"Aha!" insights from Adrian C. Ott author of The 24-Hour Customer who spoke at the Association for Strategic Planning annual conference this month[...]

How the Mighty Fall - Review

Jim Collins' research project uncovered five step-wise stages of the decline of formerly mighty companies. These stages are like a staged disease. It is generally hard to detect the disease while it is in its early stages, but that is when it is most curable. See Review[...]

Review of Business Plan Pro

The right business planning software can help you to focus less on tools and more on strategy and planning. Today, there are reasonably priced software applications that provide you expert guidance, formulas, research resources and samples to help develop sound business plans. See Review[...]

Strategic Speed - Review