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...
by Mike Baxter | Aug 7, 2019 | Strategy
My recently-published LinkedIn article on Turning Strategy into a Manageable Process with Strategy Mapping describes the features of an effective strategy, and how these can be delivered using strategy mapping, a business process enabling strategy to be managed in a...
by Mike Baxter | Jul 12, 2019 | Leadership, Strategy
Following on from our University Strategy 2020 report, our latest guest post on the HEPI (Higher Education Policy Institute) blog reveals that 60% of UK universities will have a new strategy by 2021 (Fig. 1), with next year alone seeing the re-launch of 50 out of 155...
by Mike Baxter | Jun 19, 2019 | Strategy
In my recent LinkedIn article on Five Cognitive Biases to Beware of in Strategy Development I describe how the way in which our thinking deviates from rationality in everyday life can affect the way we develop strategy. From ‘loss aversion’ to...
by Mike Baxter | Jun 6, 2019 | Strategy
Based on our University Strategy 2020 research report, our guest post on the HEPI (Higher Education Policy Institute) blog concludes that there are three drivers poised to impact future university strategy development: Strategy and strategic thinking will become much...
by Mike Baxter | Apr 15, 2019 | Strategy
Goal Atlas announces the publication of its new report “University Strategy 2020: Analysis and benchmarking of the strategies of UK Universities”. What is a university strategy? What does it contain? How should it be developed? How should it drive change?...
by Mike Baxter | Oct 17, 2017 | Agility
In this blog post we describe a framework for connecting agility to profitability in four steps: Profit comes from high performance; High performance can only come from being focused; Being focused can only happen if everyone is aligned behind a common purpose; High...
by Mike Baxter | Jul 6, 2017 | Alignment
It is well established, in research studies over many years, that well-aligned organisations perform better than poorly aligned ones. One of the pioneering studies, published in the Strategic Management Journal in 1992 (1), discovered that 30% of the variation in...
