Strategic Discipline Blog

What if your customer told you, “You are the leader, in fact, you don’t have any competitors for what you do and how you do it!”

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, Playing To Win, Where to Play

Great strategy is making choices.

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Topics: Core Purpose, strategy, strategy decisions, Playing To Win, Your Winning Aspiration

Last blog, What Strategy Is And Isn’t: Playing to Win we shared: Strategy is about making specific choices to win in the marketplace.

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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Top Line Revenue Growth

Several weeks ago one of my customers met with Kaihan Krippendorff, author of Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, to complete our work on the Outthinker Process.  I’ve shared their progress in our previous blogs. 

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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win

Three ideas. 

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Topics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff

How do you take 192 strategic narratives and determine which have the greatest potential to grow your business.

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Topics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff

“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” ~ Napoleon Hill

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff

Our last two blogs, The OUTTHINKER PROCESS – FIRST STEP (Example) and Calculate Your OUTthinker Score – The Assessment Re-Visited shared an example of my customers 1^st step in the Outthinker Process plus we revisited how the assessment to calculate your Outthinker Score with the 8 P’s.

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff

This week I’m on vacation.  Last Thursday’s Blog, The OUTTHINKER PROCESS – STEP (Example) shared my customer’s first step in the Outthinker Process. The framework for this first step requires your leadership team to take a closer look at your business in terms of your competitiveness.  The 8 P’s assessment, the Outthinker Score, provide great clarity on how your business is positioned against your competition.

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Topics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, OUTTHINKER SCORE - ASSESSMENT, Outthinker Process

Last Tuesday one of my customers finished their last step in Kaihan Krippendorff’s, Outthinker Process. See the 5 steps of the Process in this picture/chart.

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Topics: strategy, strategy decisions, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Outthinker Process