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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
Calculate Your OUTthinker Score – The Assessment Re-Visited
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 9, 2018
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.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Strategy Decision, OUTTHINKER SCORE - ASSESSMENT, Outthinker Process
You Can Achieve Similar Success – David Meerman Scott - New Orleans ScaleUp Summit
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 11, 2018
Topics: Marketing, David Meerman Scott, Social Media, Strategy Decision, ScaleUp Summit Learning, ScaleUp Summit New Orleans 2018
Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, People, consistently execute, Alignment, Execution, Strategy Decision
How to Develop A Disruptive Business Model The Outthinker Process - 36 Stratagems
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 23, 2018
Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, OUTthnkers 5 most common Strategies, Outthinker Process, Kaihan Krippendorff, 8 P's