Seven Chapters of Strategic Wisdom
A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy.
Content: Article | Author: Walter Kiechel | Source: “strategy+business” | Subject: Strategy
Bring Strategy Back from the Dead
The vultures are circling. ‘Strategy, as we knew it, is dead,’ proclaims Walt Shill, head of Accenture’s North American consulting practice. A January 25 Wall Street Journal article quotes him explaining, ‘Corporate clients decided that increased flexibility and accelerated decision-making are much more important than simply predicting the future.’ A recent white paper from the Boston Consulting Group hung similar crepe. In its research on … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Walter Kiechel | Source: “ChangeThis” | Subject: Strategy
The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
In what amounts to a vigorous defense of management consultants, Kiechel explains how business became an intellectual endeavor over the last half century, maturing from commonsense practice to theory-driven discipline, and how ideas now underpin the way corporations function today. “What companies didn’t have before the strategy revolution,” he writes, “was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate.”
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Content: Book | Author: Walter Kiechel | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Industry Specific, Strategy | Industry: Consulting
Walter Kiechel
A good strategy starts with a comparable knowledge of how your company is situated along three critical dimensions—costs, customers, and competition.
Content: Quotation | Author: Walter Kiechel | Source: “ChangeThis” | Subject: Strategy