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3 Ways to Clearly Communicate Your Company’s Strategy

Harvard Business

For all the communication around strategy, we know that leaders at many companies don’t provide the necessary context for employees to understand what the words and sentences in a strategy statement actually mean. What can leaders do to help employees understand enough context to understand a strategy?

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Book Review of “The New How” (Business Strategy Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “ The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy ” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy development in general. through customized, experiential learning sessions.

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How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don’t Fail You

Steve Shu Consulting

For many strategy engagements, a lot of attention is paid to the detailed analysis framework. Regardless of strategy technique, one key output of these efforts is often a scorecard summary. The figure below shows an illustrative scorecard for a company. For example, should a benchmarking framework be used?

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Best 13 Software for Managing Your Strategic Portfolio in 2025: Trending Tools for Smarter Business Decisions

Epicflow

These tools are essential for translating the strategy into action, while their features should guarantee optimal resource allocation and utilization, risk management , and prioritization of projects and tasks. Read further to learn what tools will help you execute your organizations strategy and drive business performance in 2025.

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. In these cases, strategies become what I call ‘strategically useless’ brilliant in theory but ineffective in practice. Three Reasons Why Strategies Become Useless 1. For example, J.C.

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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

strategy development, market research, transformation initiatives). ECA Partners : Serves private equity and PE portfolio companies with consulting and interim leadership. vChief : Focuses on placing fractional executives within companies. Based on their input, heres a list of agencies and platforms for you to consider.

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What I’ve Learned From Buyers of Management Consulting Services

Steve Shu Consulting

Some argue that using consultants for strategy development intimate incompetence by management (example here ). Companies should definitely examine the needs and tradeoffs for using management consultants. Many blog posts and articles address when to use management consultants versus not.