Purpose – This article provides opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership. Design/methodology/approach – This article is an opinion column. Findings – Organizational “stovepipes” must be managed very carefully. Research limitations/implications – Based...

Purpose – To provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership. Design/methodology/approach – This article is an opinion column. Findings – There are good analogies between the survival or failure of societies and the survival or failure of...

Purpose – Taken individually, powerful storms of change such as globalization, the democratization of governments and economies, and the mass digitization of information and commerce, each provide established companies with unique opportunities and emerging threats. However as these storms...

Purpose – Business leaders can apply key messages as early as today to begin aligning business operations with business strategy to strengthen sustainability. Principles can be applied at all levels in any organization, from the entire enterprise down to discreet product or service offerings....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe four levers that managers can use to effectively implement strategy. Design/methodology/approach – Draws on the performance management literature, in particular Simons' levers of control framework, to describe and illustrate practical...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the author's experience of planning engagements across a wide variety of private and public enterprises....

Purpose – Domestic and international underserved markets represent a multi‐trillion‐dollar opportunity that is largely untapped. They offer the chance both to build significant profits and to meet social needs as well. But recent experience shows there are significant risks as well. The...

Purpose – Vigorous competition among companies for customers, talent, and capital serves everyone well, for the most part. But competition can be harmful as well, when companies fight over things that hold little value to customers or that offer little potential for differentiation....

Purpose – The ability to see new possibilities is fundamental to creating innovative designs – but what do we know about state-of-the-art possibility thinking? The purpose of this paper is to look at this topic, which the strategy field has largely ignored in favor of analytics, by examining...

Purpose – This paper seeks to introduce the concept of abduction to strategists and show how abduction is an important influence on the effective design of strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper defines what is meant by abduction, and describes why abduction is a pre-condition...