A good friend of mine and I met for coffee early Thursday morning.
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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy
Low-Cost vs. Differentiation - Example of Playing to Win
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 23, 2019
Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Low-Cost Strategy, Differentiation Strategy
One of my customers is growing fast. They’ve added 25 employees this year, increased revenue 45%, and plan to acquire additional companies to fuel their growth to add new people over the next three years.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, Core Competencies, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Core Capabilities, Strategy - How
“…strategy is disciplined thinking that requires tough choices and is all about winning.” ~ A.G. Lafley, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.
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Red Team Tool: Four Ways of Seeing - New Coke & Arch Deluxe Failures
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 2, 2019
Topics: Decision-Making, Strategy Decision, Decisions Equal Success, Better Decision-Making, Strategy - How, Strategy vs. Planning, Red Team
The problem with traditional SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) is they don’t differentiate you from your competition.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, SWOT, Strengths, Strategy Decision, OUTTHINKER SCORE - ASSESSMENT, 8 P's
Last blog, What Strategy Is And Isn’t: Playing to Win we shared: Strategy is about making specific choices to win in the marketplace.
Read MoreTopics: 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.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win
Topics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff
STEP 4 - OUTTHINKER PROCESS - ANALYZE – Space For Impossible Ideas
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 30, 2018
How do you take 192 strategic narratives and determine which have the greatest potential to grow your business.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff