by Mike Baxter | Feb 3, 2021 | Strategy
Strategy is necessarily creative. It’s not just choosing from a number of future alternatives, but rather creatively imagining the future we can collectively craft. Research, however, reveals three creativity blockers that strategists need to understand and avoid: 1. ...
by Mike Baxter | Dec 30, 2020 | Strategy
Strategy is about change. As we approach the post-covid era, whether or not to commit to change will be uppermost in many leaders’ minds. When is the right time to commit to a strategy? Will there ever be a right time? Or is it best to be in perpetual readiness...
by Mike Baxter | Dec 22, 2020 | Strategy
I set out with lofty aims for The Strategy Manual. I wanted to explain strategy from first principles, I wanted to cover strategy across its entire lifecycle, from strategy development to strategy adoption and strategy adaptation, and I wanted it to be well-founded....
by Mike Baxter | May 26, 2020 | Strategy
This is the second in what may turn out to be our ‘tough times’ series (the last one was on envisioning the future for strategic planning), because there are a lot of people trying really hard to work out how best to produce a strategy fit for such an...
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...
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...
