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Is Your Culture Right for Happy Accident Innovation? – by Graham Kenny
When I was in my teens, Kevin, my brother-in-law, explained how stainless steel was invented. Like many of the world’s most useful products, it wasn’t so much invented as stumbled upon in a happy accident … Read More
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Training Managers in Strategic Thinking May Simply Be a Waste of Time – by Graham Kenny
The sentiment comes through as a consistent complaint from CEOs. It sounds like this: “What we lack in this organization is strategic thinkers” or “It’s hard to get the executive team to think strategically” or … Read More
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What’s Your Strategic Plan for a Low Birthrate World? – by Graham Kenny
In May, Italy hit the panic button when the Pope joined the country’s Prime Minister in calling for Italians to have more babies. The country’s low birthrate is now threatening Italy’s economic future. It’s not … Read More
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Be Aware of Strategy Drift and Gaps Post Covid – by Graham Kenny
Over the last three years, management practices have shifted from proactive to reactive. For example, fine-dining restaurants are now producing takeaway meals, and medical practices are providing “telehealth” to treat patients online. These innovations began … Read More
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Overusing “Strategy” and “Strategic” Harms Your Business Performance – by Graham Kenny
Managers use the terms, “strategy” and “strategic” a surprisingly large number of times and in a wide variety of contexts. We hear terms like “HR strategy” or “strategic marketing.” It pops up everywhere, with “IT … Read More
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Executing Strategy in a Work-from-Anywhere World – by Graham Kenny
In this work from anywhere age, CEOs and senior managers are facing a fresh and urgent challenge to prevent their organizations from splintering. If they fail to get this right executing strategy will become an … Read More
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Business Model Extension: Key to Executing the Circular Economy – by Graham Kenny
The circular economy employs recycling, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishment, and sharing to offer remedies for our global waste crisis. There have been many calls for a shift from linear to circular – appeals to consumers … Read More
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Why Marketing Isn’t Strategy – and Why That Matters – by Graham Kenny
A senior executive recently suggested to me that the disciplines of “strategy” and “marketing” should be merged. There’s no need any longer for them to be separate, he proposed. I took note. This was, after … Read More
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Adopt a Multi-Business Mindset to Diversify Successfully – by Graham Kenny
We’ve seen whole industries devastated in the wake of Covid-19. Many businesses, looking for ways to stay alive, have considered diversification. But all too often they flinch because a message has been drilled into them: … Read More
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4 Key Qualities of Successful Division Managers – by Graham Kenny
There’s been mountains written on what it takes to be a successful manager. But what if that manager is working in the context of a diversified organization? What special skills does it take to run … Read More
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Beware of Catch-22 in Your Organisation Design – by Graham Kenny
Not so long ago, organisation design was a primary concern of CEOs seen as a fundamental driver of effectiveness and efficiency. It seems to have dropped off the agenda of late being replaced by many … Read More
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Use Rivalry to Sharpen Your Business Strategy – by Graham Kenny
Analysing “the competition” is a tried and tested method for developing strategy. But what do you do when the discussion turns bland and unfocused? Here’s a trick to sharpen your strategic team’s competitive instincts. Use … Read More
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4 Steps to Reach Your Business Competitive Potential – by Graham Kenny
Louise, a senior partner at a large national law firm, I’ll call it Robinson & Rose, pulled me to one side at a break in my seminar on business strategy. “I get what you’re saying” … Read More
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4 Secrets to Simple Performance Measurement – by Graham Kenny
Can you nail the distinction between “simple” and “simplistic”? If you can, you’re well on the way to successful performance measurement. If a model is simple it contains only those elements essential to explain a … Read More
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Measuring Activity Is Not Measuring Performance – by Graham Kenny
“I could,” I explain, “measure the number of PowerPoint slides I employ. I could measure the number of times I use the whiteboard. Or the number of sheets of flipchart paper I use. Or the … Read More
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- Is Your Culture Right for Happy Accident Innovation? – by Graham Kenny
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