Finding the key bottleneck to achieving your aspiration brings focus to both strategy design and execution. Root cause analysis techniques can be powerful tools to expose the hidden bottleneck.
In a schematic and very simple way, the primary processes of a company can be represented as in the figure below The key processes represent the daily activity of the company, from customer acquisition, sales,…
For productive innovation, experience shows that most successful companies tend to be those that start from strategy, rather than just ideation.
94% of survey respondents stated that remote selling can make their businesses more competitive – but current readiness is likely to be less mature than imagined.
Everything you believe is needed for changing a business from current state to future state
Arkaro recently posted a LinkedIn poll with the question “What is most frustrating about your strategy process?” Poll results highlight agility but other issues are raised...and solutions offered
Mark Blackwell, Arkaro, becomes an affiliated partner for The Emergent Approach to Strategy
Staircase models are popular for breaking an overall high-level aspiration into sequential milestones, sometimes yearly. Staircases are a type of roadmap, and can be very useful visualisation of a plan, but they cannot be described as a strategy.