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Dec 20, 2022

Strategy in Turbulent Environments

Strategy in turbulent environments is different from conventional strategic planning. Traditional approaches are too expensive to formulate, too challenging to

Dec 4, 2022

Narrowing Our Ingenuity Gap With Innovating Networks

Our ingenuity gap continues to grow. Our inability to design and guide “innovating networks” has led to the gap. But

Nov 24, 2022

S Curves

It’s time to ditch our static view of the enterprise. Organizations are complex systems that must adapt to survive. But

Oct 26, 2022

Strategic Doing and the Iceberg Model of Systems Thinking

Strategy in open networks — teams, collaborations, clusters, and ecosystems — is different. Successful network-based strategies require us to think

Oct 12, 2022

Adaptive Challenges

Yesterday, a colleague asked why we don’t use the term “goals” with Strategic Doing. Instead, we focus on outcomes that

Sep 30, 2022

Understanding the Difference Between Goals and Outcomes

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Sep 5, 2022

Understanding Agility

Like many popular business concepts, “agility” is overused to the point of meaninglessness. Here’s a way to think about agility

Aug 19, 2022

Guidelines for Middle Managers to Innovate

With our work in #strategicdoing, we often are connecting with the Middle, managers looking for new ways to innovate, new

Aug 15, 2022

Economics

The economics we carry around in our heads is based on some pretty flimsy assumptions. >> The notion that if

Aug 5, 2022

Evolution Toward Large-Scale Transformation

Here are some thoughts on how large scale transformations happen by linking and leveraging assets through networks. Yesterday, I was