There’s enough doom and gloom about in the economy at the moment without getting pessimistic about your strategy’s chances of failure. Square Peg director and the UK Institute of Consulting’s Consultant of the Year Phoebe Dunn shares her thoughts on Courting Disaster – how planning for failure can boost your project’s chances of success in [...]

With fragile economic growth threatened by the impact of European debt, reduced public spending, recent political upheaval and the natural disaster in Japan, will businesses see a need to renew their organisation’s strategy or is there a sense that we will soon be back to business as usual?
There are many definitions of strategy. One approach [...]

An SPS survey has revealed the factors that stifle innovation within members’ organisations.
The poll attracted a record number of responses, and highlighted that the most significant issue for most organisations was a shortage of time and resources, cited by 22% of respondents, followed by a focus on the short term, cited by 19%.
However, the role [...]

There is a big difference between the conditions that can accompany strong organisational performance in benign economic times and those that yield sustained performance, through good times and bad. This was the conclusion reached by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development after a two-year research programme, Shaping the Future, tracking six organisations undertaking change [...]

A new global report by The Boston Consulting Group and the World Federation of People Management Associations has revealed that strategic workforce planning is falling far short in multinational organisations.
The report, Creating People Advantage 2010: How Companies Can Adapt Their HR Practices for Volatile Times, found that while the time horizon for strategic workforce planning [...]

Every leader should have a strategic plan. Whether it’s a large corporation, a non-profit, a government agency, a department, a project or a team, the leader is responsible for ensuring that the organisation has a clear strategic direction and a plan for making that direction a reality. Sometimes, however, a leader is ready for strategic [...]

A recent survey from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, based on interviews with a mix of board level decision makers and Financial Controllers at 52 of the UK’s largest firms, demonstrates that the economic crisis is far from over. The critical liquidity issues in UK business, which characterised the downturn, have not eased and, combined with [...]

“More awareness needed of how to explain the business model” according to Cass Business School this week.
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