Does your company have an "Annual Strategic Plan" with dozens of initiatives, metrics and milestones? It feels structured. It feels disciplined. It’s also not strategy.

This swaggering right of intervention is called a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. That is a deliberate tribute to the “Roosevelt Corollary”, President Theodore Roosevelt’s assertion of gendarme-like enforcement rights over the western hemisphere in 1904.

Obviously great strategy can certainly help. You need only look at, say, APG Award winners to see that. But we’ve all been witness to weeks and months of ‘strategising’ without a corresponding award winner in sight. So simply more strategy is no ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of resources, time and assets. It is the practice that truly ...

When you invest thousands of dollars (if not more) into a website design, you’re probably not thinking about when you’ll redesign it next. Well, you should be. A website is most effective when it is first launched. After the launch period, it begins ...

A series of recent attacks on Russian forces in southern Ukraine and its forcibly-annexed Crimean Peninsula reveal what Ukrainian officials say is a new strategy designed to take out supply lines in its occupied territories. Mykhaylo Podolyak, a key ...

S&P’s ‘B–’ rating for Strategy Inc. marks the first time a Bitcoin-focused corporate model has been fully evaluated under traditional credit frameworks. The rating confirms that Bitcoin can now underpin structured debt and preferred equity, much ...

I am often struck by just how frequently we encounter new law firms, particularly smaller to mid-sized firms, where when asked if the firm has a formal “strategy” (or to use the common parlance, “strategic plan”) we will be told yes, but upon ...

Strategy does its business by issuing debt or equity to buy Bitcoin. Bitcoin's price is way down, and so is Strategy's stock. But things aren't as bad as they seem. But with Bitcoin down sharply from its early October highs,