3 days agoSecond Opinion on Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0Mission — In October 2022, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made headlines when he acquired Twitter for $44 billion. Since then, speculation has been rampant about his intentions for the social media platform. In a recent tweet, Musk provided some insight, stating his aim to provide “Trust as a Service” (TaaS):1 We’re going…Twitter10 min readTwitter10 min read
Oct 3, 2022Hierarchy of Strategic ThinkingBusiness people bandy about words like strategy, innovation and culture all the time, but if you ask people to define what these words mean you’ll get very different answers. So when people repeat well-known phrases such as “culture eats strategy for breakfast” what they’re saying is that something (they can’t…Strategy4 min readStrategy4 min read
Sep 5, 2022Chapter 10. Strategy for an Uncertain WorldUncertainty is central to both the Eastern and Western approaches to strategy. The Chinese philosophical tradition – from which Sun Tzu emerged – recognised that, as minor fluctuations in conditions can amplify into dramatic changes, no two situations are ever identical and therefore no universal recipes can exist. While Clausewitz…18 min read18 min read
Jun 29, 2022Introduction: Why “Best Practices” Hold You BackOne day a clever hedgehog came to a wide river and was determined to cross it. Being a clever hedgehog he knew how to build bridges, so he set about building one over this river. Half-way done he stopped to admire his work. Looking back at the riverbank he saw…12 min read12 min read
Mar 20, 2022Chapter 7. Honda-Yamaha War of Natural SelectionWhat lessons can we learn from the Eastern approach to strategy when dealing with, for example, the kind of competitive threat Honda posed to Britain’s champions in the US motorcycle industry? Perhaps fortunately we have a case showing exactly what Honda did, a decade later, when their leading position was…Strategy6 min readStrategy6 min read
Feb 7, 2022Removing your organisation’s biggest source of wasteIn any large organisation people are often building things that already exist somewhere else in the same organisation. They’re not doing this because they’re stupid. They’re re-building what you already have because they simply have no systematic way of knowing what other silos in the organisation are doing. …Wardley Maps3 min readWardley Maps3 min read
Jan 31, 2022How do you make your projects more successful?It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value may require reducing budgets, team size and deadline. …Wardley Maps3 min readWardley Maps3 min read
Dec 2, 2021Why AGILE is not THE answerA few weeks ago I wrote about how companies using Wardley Maps (well) for strategy, execution and organisational improvement often seem to be operating a decade or more ahead of others in the game. I discussed how the ‘Pioneer-Settler-Town Planner’ model in the Wardley Maps method (organising around different attitudes…7 min read7 min read
Nov 29, 2021Remove duplication & biasIn any large organisation there are people building things that already exist somewhere else in the organisation. They’re not doing this because they’re evil or stupid. They’re doing this because they simply have no systematic way of knowing what other silos in the organisation are doing. Left unchecked this situation…Wardley Maps2 min readWardley Maps2 min read
Nov 10, 2021How do you make your projects more successful?It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value, may require reducing budgets, team size and deadlines. …Wardley Maps3 min readWardley Maps3 min read
