Monday, April 20, 2015

A Labour / Conservative Coalition

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For over 20 of the last 100 years, we've had a coalition Government formed by the two major parties. Given the current economic climate...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

What's in a Wardley (Value Chain) Map?

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It doesn't matter whether it's a map of an organisation or line of business or policy or system or industry. The same elements exist...
Sunday, April 05, 2015

The only structure you'll ever need ... until the next one.

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Back in 2004, I was the CEO of Canon subsidiary and I faced multiple problems. We had issues of business & IT alignment, poor communica...
Saturday, April 04, 2015

Near field, far field and the crazy ideas

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In any year, there are over 70,000 publications covering the future. From books to magazines to short stories to scripts to papers to blog ...
Friday, April 03, 2015

Put the yellow hat on and start hoping ...

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I often talk about different strategic plays and games (I've added an example set in table 1) and how you can manipulate your environme...
Wednesday, April 01, 2015

So Amazon fired a warning shot at supermarkets and everyone went April Fool?

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By now you'll have heard of Amazon's "Dash" button . Is it an April Fool? Let's hope so if you're a supermarket b...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

The necessity of incompetence in Strategy

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Some time back, I collected a list of common terms used when describing a strategy. I called these B usiness L evel A bstractions of a H ea...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

The curious case of #RPSFail

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The Register screamed  'Another GDS cockup: Rural Payments Agency cans £154m IT system ' which it then cried 'escalated to £177...