It is amazing how “cool” some German companies generate spam. Today I discovered a spam
mail within my mail inbox that has this end: This is no mass advertising or even spam (really?) but some grave and specific information (….I did not ask for)! We assume, which interests you in forms of serious business information you might have (…your assumption is wrong….). If you should wish no more business information […]

The probably most common way to develop strategies is to ask (and hopefully answer) questions like: Which products do we want to offer? In which markets? How are we going to do that? Do we want to do that on our own or are we looking out for a partner? Such questions are necessary to […]

An important issue in order to develop a strategy or a strategic objective is raising the right question(s).
To proof this I would like to use an example: You are in Berlin, Germany (your current position) with your car (company) and want to go to a new place (your desired corporate future). There are a lot […]

I recently came across two very different writings about the problem with strategy and boxes or categories.
The first one is from Henry Minzbergs book ‘The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning’ (p 302):
“Note that the problem in such planning systems in not any specific category so much as the process of categorization itself. No amount […]

The German Railway used decision analysis in order to develop a new HR strategy. A lot impact factors were considered, e.g. demographic development (which is very dramatic in Germany), health care issues and law issues.
The firm is supported by two PhD students from the London School of Economics. They take care for a project called […]

Today I did read a very interesting article about a recent study about CEO pay. The authors are Xavier Gabaix (Pinceton) and Augustin Landier (New York University). They developed this hypothesis in order to research CEO pay: Managers are different in order to increase the value of a firm. In particular in large firms ”above […]

Who is Eddie? Eddie is the mascot of our company and their websites. He is interested in all issues on strategic management. His favourite topics are strategy and strategic planning. He has his own view on the world and wants to comment a lot of things that come to his small mind. But do not […]

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