Papers &

Traditional strategic planning methods no longer serve their purpose in today’s complex, unpredictable world. This article in The European Business Review by Eva Tomas Casado and myself explores how organisations […]

Strategy – or more accurately how organisations approach strategy – is changing. The past three years have highlighted even more clearly how the ‘traditional’ approach to strategic planning is no […]

How can organisations survive in a changing and uncertain world? There is a need for agility and adaptability, and the willingness and ability to think about possible futures – undesired […]

The way that strategic planning is undertaken is changing: why divert the organisation’s efforts in a resource-intensive, mostly top-down project to produce a plan which might be quickly outdated? The […]

Developing three key strategic capabilities – strategic thinking, management, and leadership – is important to enable organisations to adopt a dynamic approach to strategy development and implementation. (Includes examples as […]

For fun, but also to stimulate ideas (it is also about an approach to strategic planning), this article became the Epilogue in my book, ‘Strategy Journeys – a guide to […]

This is an article that I wrote several years ago that captured some of the problems I’d encountered that hindered the effectiveness of strategic planning – they are still very […]

It’s time to leave behind the stereotype of ‘traditional’ strategic planning and look at a more dynamic approach that helps organisations to anticipate and adapt to changes.

Strategy-making is dynamic. Organisations need to be adaptable to changes in their situation and responsive to challenges and opportunities. Continually assessing where the organisation is on its strategy journey, what […]