What lessons can we learn from the Eastern approach to strategy when dealing with, for example, the kind of competitive threat Honda became 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…

In 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. …

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. …

A 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…

In 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…

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. …

When you use Wardley Maps for strategy, execution or organisational improvement — as we do with a select group of clients — one of the most surprising things is how far they are ahead of the rest of the game. …

The long arc of Western economic supremacy made the Western model the model for those nations striving to modernise to emulate. Yet a series of crises in this young 21st century, coupled with the re-emergence of China, have led many to question the pre-eminence of all things Western. The poor…

At the time of writing Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is number 4 on Amazon’s ‘Strategy & Competition[⁠1]’ bestseller list. Why do modern strategists seek insights from a military text that’s 2,500 years old? The answer may be that both war and business share two essential characteristics: Competition with…