Better control of utilities' strategies in an energy crisis

When Tom Peters, at the end of the 1970s, announced that we should move beyond the matrix organization to match accelerating business environments, he was a real visionary. It was not until much more recently that we hear about the death of...

Two experts in the strategic management field, Bjarni Jonsson and Flemming Videriksen, grew weary of seeing one leadership team after another throw millions out the window by not implementing the great plans they had made. This seemed to be more or...

For decades the emphasis has been on creating the right strategy! However, when it is time to execute the right strategy, all the energy has been drained and daily operations demand all available resources.

Over the past years we have seen unprecedented changes in the world, which have transformed the business landscape in which organizations operate.

As a leader, most likely you have come across the term Key Performance Indicator, or KPI. However, it might not be clear what a KPI really is, why it is important and how it could be crafted to provide the right insight. As with other well-known...

In our previous blog about strategy getting lost in implementation, we stressed that the strategy process must be a conscious and cohesive one, with measurable results.  The challenge is to align the strategy—the what and why—with the...

The rapid pace of change in technology demands that organizations be prepared to steer new markets, unexpected market changes, competitor moves, and new customer demands. We all heard of the advent of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI),...

Speaking to more than fifty companies both in Europe and in the USA, the conclusions of our most recent research have made for sobering reading. Over the last decade, the large majority of S&P500 and FTSE100 companies have averaged less than 5%...

For 19 years now, I have been presenting (and promoting) strategy execution from the stage and have been able to share with leaders our research that we have been steadily improving from nine out of ten strategy executions failing in 2000 to 67%...