Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 11, 2011

Some argue that using consultants for strategy development intimate incompetence by management (example here ). Many blog posts and articles address when to use management consultants versus not. Others argue that consultants should be used in cases when expertise is higher than that of existing employees.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2018

STP is a powerful structure to construct insightful marketing strategies. In this post, I will give you a very quick example to explain how powerful this tool can be (if you are interested, you can read more details about STP here ). Silver Bullet #2 : Strategy Tool: Play to Win. Let’s use Kogan.com again here as an example.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 20, 2018

In the above example, the target was the “high-tech plastics industry.” Pillar Five: Focused Marketing Strategy. A Random marketing strategy is much like the collection of marketing activities I outlined at the top of the article. A Focused marketing strategy is more like a putting on a theatrical production.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

People & Strategy, 2010. We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. They grapple with the question of how to align the components of the organization to execute strategy and remove barriers so that members of the organization can make the right decisions and do their best work.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

McKinsey’s Bay Area offices serve major technology and financial firms, as well as leading healthcare and retail companies needing strategy and innovation help. Here’s why: the firm’s leadership is always looking for new strategy and new, creative ways to bring value to clients. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to setting strategy, which is more effective: one great thinker or a wise crowd? To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Craft a Behavior-Change Strategy. Document how employee actions or inactions might contribute to the risks described above, then develop a list of desired behaviors and guidelines for making it a simple as possible for staff to adopt them. Work those into your behavior change strategy. What behaviors are we hoping for?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But how did it hit on this winning strategy? IKEA’s success did not result from the kind of planful strategy development that is still taught in some business schools. For example, when the first IKEA catalogue came out in 1951, many retailers had similar, mail-order business models. Quite the contrary.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. As the 8 th person to join this now 178-person manufacturer of recycled plastic building materials, created—from scratch—brand strategy and fully-functioning commercial infrastructure. R ésumé example #2. Overall Strategy and Success.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

The CEO of a large Australian company called me to relay a particular strategy development problem his firm was facing, and ask for my advice. My Australian friend explained that each of his five business unit presidents was using the Strategy Choice Cascade, and that all of them had gotten stuck in the same place.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Report writing is another relevant example. Managers we surveyed have a sense of a shift in this direction and identify the judgment-oriented skills of creative thinking and experimentation, data analysis and interpretation, and strategy development as three of the four top new skills that will be required to succeed in the future.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. ” Create win-win incentives.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. To support a change in strategy from efficiency-driven to innovation-driven growth, the company acquired another company to be its innovation engine.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Nigro recommends challenging metrics at least annually, perhaps during a company’s annual budget cycle or strategy development process.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. I essentially work with the clients internally to set up marketing and brand strategies for success. What did that conversation look like with them?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PwC moved on to acquire Ant’s Eye View, in August 2012, a social media strategy development and consulting firm. member firm’s career path will be highlighted here (but in strong European markets, for example, expect a very similar parallel path). Coaching & Development. and in August 2011, purchased PRTM.

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