by Mike Baxter | May 12, 2020 | Strategy
These are tough times and are going to require some tough decisions before we get out the other side. Last September, I started writing this piece with no great sense of urgency. This morning, I stumbled across it again and thought … if not now, then when? The...
by Mike Baxter | Apr 28, 2020 | Strategy
In 2008, as the dust was settling on the Financial Crisis, strategy expert Professor Richard Rumelt wrote “in suddenly volatile and different times, you must have a strategy.” Given the challenging times we are currently in, my latest LinkedIn article is a summary of...
by Mike Baxter | Mar 17, 2020 | Strategy
My latest LinkedIn article describes five of the biggest and most critical risks your strategy can face: Your strategy isn’t measurable* – making its impact unknown and its progress invisible; Your strategy is mis-aligned – your front-line teams are pulling in...
by Mike Baxter | Dec 17, 2019 | Strategy
Getting the measurement of strategy right can make a huge difference to the power of your strategy. My latest LinkedIn article introduces three different types of KPI (strategy success indicators, aggregate performance indicators, litmus performance indicators) which...
by Mike Baxter | Sep 24, 2019 | Strategy
Frameworks such as the Business Model Canvas, devised by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, have a lot of knowledge or wisdom ‘baked in’. It is often not at all clear why elements of the framework have been designed the way they have. It is also not clear which...
