Library

Below is our library of articles from valued sources on business strategy, innovation, and more. The articles are available to read and download in PDF format (articles open in a new browser window/tab).

  • Adopt an Investor-mindset…

    Mckinsey & Co. explore how the investor-mind set can support top-line growth for organisations by re-allocating funds.

  • Building and Implementing Corporate Strategy

    Transform your organization before a crisis hits in this 10 lesson guide, by learning from practices of well-known brands.

  • Building innovation inside an established organization

    Insead explores the important aspects of building innovation internally and the potential problems that organizations should be aware of.

  • Bundling and Unbundling…

    An excellent conversation between Andreesen and Barksdale about succeeding in business by bundling strategies.

  • Competing on Imagination

    BCG explores the importance of imagination within an organization to create inspiration and enhance employees mental models.

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  • Corporate Business Building

    Not all corporations that participate in corporate business building experience success. But Mckinsey explores the increasing importance of prioritizing growth to meet threats and opportunities of a digitizing world.

  • Corporate Governance…

    Excellent guide to improving corporate governance and board effectiveness.

  • Designing success in the digital economy

    Identify the appropriate platform type for your company’s specific needs and its key success factors.
  • Devising strategy for the corporate center

    Explore the basic parenting strategies recommended by BCG to help corporations add value to their large portfolio of businesses whilst also understanding how to design a corporate center tailored to each strategy.

  • Digital Age Strategy…

    Booz Allen explores the importance of strategy in the digital age and how it’s changed throughout time

  • Enterprise Value Map…

    The granddaddy of value frameworks from our friends at Deloitte (nee Arthur Andersen).

  • First Do No Harm…

    BCG guide to different styles of corporate parenting – which are you?

  • Five Questions…

    Boiling strategy down to five questions that form the core of the now very popular “Where to play, how to win” approach.

  • Growth Strategies…

    An overview of business growth options from Australia’s leading strategy practitioner.

  • Guide To M&A…

    A detailed guide to M&A process with a focus on integration.

  • Has strategy become a lost art?

    ‘The lost art of strategy’ article by Roger Martin, explores the problems with strategy practice as taught today in academia, is not learning how to practice strategy but how to use strategy tools.

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  • How new business building creates value for the medtech industry

    By focusing on the Medtech industry, the following report by Mckinsey & Co. highlights; the value new business building can provide for companies, the problems and difficulties that arise, and how to get it right.

  • How strategic are your conversations?

    Deloitte explores the importance of having more strategic conversations within different situations.

  • Hybrid models

    The fastest growing and highest value corporations have business models portfolios combining physical assets and digital scale.

  • Lean Strategy…

    This article shows why strategy and entrepreneurship are not opposites.

  • Managing Collaborations

    Learn the five lessons on how to successfully navigate challenges that arise and the importance of bringing together stakeholders to pursue common interests.

  • Prepare for future crisis…

    World-leading business thinkers provide valuable insights to help organizations create the right conditions for their transformational efforts and prepare for any future crisis.

  • Reigniting Telecoms Growth

    A CEO Playbook from which CSPs can strategically reignite growth.

  • Scale or fail

    How to create an internal business building function.

  • Scaling Innovation

    Achieving scale is the number one barrier to commercial goals. This report explores why most innovations fail and what to do about it.

  • Strategic Agility…

    Strategic Agility – a powerful approach to corporate strategy development.

  • Strategic Plans: Less Important…

    An argument for the strategic plan as a guide rather than a blueprint.

  • Strategy In Six Questions…

    Read this no-nonsense guide to strategy process and questions.

  • Strategy Mistakes…

    Strategy Mistakes – common mistakes to avoid in strategy development.

  • Strategy Questions…

    Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For. Try out these five questions about strategy.

  • Strategy Refresher…

    An excellent summary of an options-based approach to strategy development for businesses.

  • Success in Strategy Function…

    Hult Research explores the relationship between the head of strategy capabilities and company priorities.

  • Taking Command Of Growth…

    How to manage growth like you manage costs, including ‘Sources of Revenue Statement’ tool.

  • The Corporate Board’s role within strategy

    A structured assessment of the board’s strategic responsibilities and the way their role evolves from competitive context shifts can help change a board’s lack of clarity.

  • The Perils of Bad Strategy…

    Condemning template-driven strategy in favour of diagnosis, guiding policy and coherent action in business planning.

  • The Platform Canvas…

    Insead has developed a convenient strategic framework tool to realize a specific value proposition or a solution to a business problem.

  • The role of a chief strategy officer

    Deloitte explores the different roles of a CSO.

  • Transformational Growth…

    How to drive meaningful and sustainable revenue growth through persistence and nimble execution.

  • What matters in creating new ventures

    Mckinsey & co. explores the importance of the scale-up phase and what areas have the biggest impact on success.

  • What role can strategy as a corporate function play to help the business recover and thrive?

    Deloitte has collected insights from over 50 Chief Strategy Officers, and a number of their own leaders to uncover how organizations can recover from recent events and thrive in the long term.