September 9, 2015
by Dagmar
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The business world is trimmed on maximum efficiency. Why would you waste your time when there are plenty of support tools, designed to help you become more efficient? Time is a limited resource. Businesses aim to utilize their scarce resources … Continue reading
December 19, 2012
by Dagmar
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Recently, I wrote an article about High-Spirit Teams for our Management Portal: How to build True Team Spirit. This article briefly discusses the benefits of team spirit and describes processes and success factors for building team spirit. In this post, … Continue reading
December 3, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on An Interesting Approach to Innovation
This week, I stumbled upon a blog post from Matthew E. May at the HBR Blog Network: The Less-Is-Best Approach to Innovation. The idea behind this approach is absolutely simple and straightforward, yet it is overlooked all too often. In … Continue reading
October 24, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on The Porters Five Forces Model Revisited – What else to do with it
The Porters Five Forces Model has lasted a number of years now. Nevertheless, it is still well known and still part of the curriculum of many courses on management and strategy. Much has been written on it. Still, it has … Continue reading
October 14, 2012
by Dagmar
Comments Off on “De-Stranding” the Strategic Planning Process – Follow-up
I promised to follow up my latest post about the AT Kearney article on Strategic Planning with some more thoughts. Here are some issues on which I want to elaborate a bit further. The authors write ‘As most people are … Continue reading
November 4, 2006
by Dagmar
Comments Off on How often do you touch your strategy?
Recently I talked to a freelance consultant who had been working for a company in a turnaround situation for the last couple of months. This company had been through a long and severe crisis and had now – under new … Continue reading
October 30, 2006
by Dagmar
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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 … Continue reading