De stofwolken van het Brexit referendum zijn nog niet neergedaald of Groot Brittannië lijkt stuurloos geraakt te zijn met behoorlijke gevolgen: leiders zijn afgetreden of moesten zich noodgedwongen terug trekken, Schotland die zich gemeld heeft in Brussel gemeld het EU lidmaatschap, grote pro-Europa demonstraties in Londen, beurzen die zakken, het waardeverlies van het pond, bedrijven
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Red against blue, meaning you. Everything we do in business carries a risk. Sometimes the risks are small, sometimes large and everything in between we do too. To prepare for this we make plans. The question is when do we put a plan into action? Do we do it right after we made it,
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Why not write another book, but develop a management game? I think that nearly everybody will have an idea about business strategy. I also think that many will be doing it, by themselves or with the help of a consultant. It seems that things are pretty well hammered out and easy to do. However, there
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KNOWLEDGE is POWER. That is a truism that not spans decades, but millennia. Every business needs to know its customers, the competition, its suppliers, its surroundings, itself, etc., etc. We need to know everything. We need lots of data. BIG DATA is the answer. BIG DATA is hot. BUT… Business is not only about what
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The term business wargame or business war game (so with a space between war and game) may have crossed your view. Perhaps you gave it some thoughts. Perhaps it just crossed and passed. Business wargames (note the absence of the space between war and game) are useful, although not magic. They will help you get
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In the Netherlands more and more shops are disappearing from our cities. Names that were once strong and established are now gone. Some have their doors still open, but only just and they struggle. Internet-shopping is pointed out as being the cause of all this misery. People in the streets are interviewed and nearly all
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In the final minutes of the Oscar nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers” former Shin Bet [i]commander Ami Ayalon, a decorated war hero who was appointed chief of Shin Bet in aftermath of the humiliating murder of Yitzak Rabin, quotes Carl von Clausewitz, definining victory as “constituting an improvement of one’s political situation”. It is Ayalon, one
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In strategy it is important to focus. In practice this often means that we take a direct aim at the objective. This is, however, not always a winning strategy. There are situations in which you need to take a step to the side first, before charging straight towards your objective. Sometimes you may even have
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As I was rethinking what recent business strategy authors are proposing I found it difficult to come up with an example. Who or what is a good representation of it? An example that isn’t obvious and still illustrative. Not a guy who is already dead for 200 years and nobody knows of, but somebody that
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Today we mostly still live in the 20th century. That is the business strategies that are being presented are very much as business executives were taught back in the old days. It’s obvious we are in this state of affairs as Sir Ken Robinson has clearly explained to us in his landmark TED talk. 20th
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