Posts by George Veth
Tired of strategic planning?
Many companies get little value from their annual strategic-planning process. It should be redesigned to support real-time strategy making and to encourage ’creative accidents.’
Read MoreWanted: Idea Fusers
My guess is that there may be a diversity policy on the books, and that there are people of different genders and races. But we need more diversity than that. We need much more intellectual diversity, and we need to find ways to put unlike ideas together in new ways.
Read MoreCharting Your Company’s Future
We suggest an alternative approach to strategic planning, based not on preparing a document but on drawing a picture we call a “strategy canvas.” This approach consistently produces strategies that are easy to understand and communicate, that engage more people within an organization, and that unlock the creativity of participants.
Read MoreThe Adaptable Corporation
Most companies are far better at executing their current activities than at adapting to long-term changes in the business environment. Very few can do both well. Three barriers to adaptability are deeply rooted in the nature of organizations…
Read MoreHow to Start Thinking Like a Data Scientist
One post won’t make you data savvy, but it will help you become data literate, open your eyes to the millions of small data opportunities, and enable you work a bit more effectively with data scientists, analytics, and all things quantitative.
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