http://www.strategyworld.org Strategy, Leadership & Execution Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:11:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Says Erich Joachimsthaler: "The goal of customer advantage is to identify and develop innovations — products and services, new business models, go-to-market models, marketing programs, and service configurations — that fit into and change customers’ lives, are relevant to the everyday challenges customers face, and create transformational customer experiences." In his Strategy ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/05/13/seeing-your-customers/ How Do You Link Innovation Strategy with Execution? Can You Create an Innovative Culture or Simply the Conditions for It to Emerge? Can Customers Lead Breakthrough Innovation? How Do You Leverage Global Talent Pools for Innovation? Can "Average" Companies be Innovation Leaders? Answers in October >> http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/05/13/5-burning-questions/ At the beginning of April StrategyWorld pointed out Circuit City's foolish strategy to fire experienced employees to cut costs. Now it's time to fire the decisionmakers who came up with this bright idea. According to the Washington Post: "...the Richmond electronics retailer says it expects to post a first-quarter loss next month, and ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/05/02/circuit-city-paying-for-stupidity/ When I work with senior executives, they express a real conflict: they know strategy is important (strategy, like IT, does matter) but they have a ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/04/28/john-hagel-fast-strategy/ "What if everything you learned about business strategy is WRONG?" Why, then it's time to sign-up for John Hagel's webinar on FAST Strategy presented by StrategyWorld.org. In this webinar John reveals why the basic principles of traditional strategy - the principles ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/04/22/john-hagel-fast-strategy-webinar/ Corporate America is obsessed with numbers. Analyst meetings focus on earnings expectations, revenue growth and margins rather than business fundamentals.  PowerPoint presentations look naked if they lack charts and graphs to buttress their message.  Lofty corporate mission statements are often trumped by pressure to “hit the targets.” Job applicants are advised ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/04/21/susan-webber-managements-great-obsession/ Lee Iacocca, former Republican? That's the verdict if you read the excerpt from his new book on leadership: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Iacocca's book describes the "Nine Cs of Leadership": - Curiosity - Creativity - Communication - Character - Courage - Conviction - Charisma - Competence - Common Sense Wait, there's more: the ability to deal with a Crisis Maybe ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/04/14/lee-iacocca-on-leadership/ Here's an interesting article from Knowledge@Wharton: Short-Circuited: Cutting Jobs as Corporate Strategy Apparently, Circuit City announced on March 28 that it cut 3,400 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, effective that day, because the salespeople were paid "well above the market-based salary range for their role." The folks at Wharton are not impressed: ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/04/05/dumbing-down-a-strategy-for-circuit-city/ In 4 Sources of Advantage, authors Peter S. Cohan and Barry Unger tell us that technology leaders create success cycles by the way they perform four critical business processes – which they call "the four sources of advantage." The four processes are: - Entrepreneurial leadership - Open technology - Boundaryless product development - Disciplined resource ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/03/05/the-competitive-advantage-assessment-can-your-company-compete/ The US Postal Service has taken customer service to the next level of incompetence. Instead of fixing the problem - the long wait in line - it has decided to work on perception instead: 37,000 post offices across the country have removed their wall clocks from retail areas. This as part of ... http://www.strategyworld.org/2007/03/05/the-quick-fix-postal-solution-fix-long-waits-by-removing-clocks/