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...
by Mike Baxter | Sep 9, 2019 | Strategy
You may have heard that strategy mapping is a systematic, robust and trusted process for managing strategy throughout its entire lifecycle, but in my latest LinkedIn article, Six Secrets of Strategy Mapping, you can find out six things about strategy mapping that you...
by Mike Baxter | Aug 20, 2019 | Strategy
Strategy mapping is a powerful tool. In order to discuss the business benefits of strategy mapping, my latest LinkedIn article, Four Benefits of Strategy Mapping, starts by describing a strategy map that has business relevance. This map is then used to explore how...