Is disruptive technology just a myth?
Technology is not disruptive: it is customers that are doing the disruption, technology is just the tool. Just like matches disrupted the flint and steel manufacturing industry, Josiah Wedgewood disrupted the pottery industry, and the motor car disrupted the...
Australia Day 2021
Well, tomorrow we will have made it to January 26, 2021. Phew! As I have for the decade of this blog, I have tried to distil the murky water around us into a few points that I think are worth the consideration of Australians. 2020 was a year in which...
Is planning just an exercise in Probability & Risk?
Our world is as volatile now as it has ever been. Planning assumes some level of predictability, sufficient to make resource allocation decisions that will drive activity in the future, even if that future is next week. Planning in this environment, much beyond...
The 2 essential strategies for a successful remote workforce.
As we come to grips with remote working, we will also have to come to grips with the central challenge, of how do you create the sense of community and teamwork that requires face to face but is not as present in remote work. More particularly, remote working...
Wikipedia’s birthday.
Today, January 15, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of the launching of Wikipedia. It would be easy to pass it over, but few innovations amongst the millions over the past 20 years, would have had such an impact on so many people as Wikipedia. The evolution of...
How not to waste a New Year’s resolution
It is new year, all those resolutions going to waste! It seemed a timely spot to suggest how we can change outcomes, as it is those we want to change, we just call them habits reflecting the action. Let's pick one of the most common: 'I will stop smoking'. The...
The essential strategic planning process for a disrupted future
It is January, and looming in many organisations is the annual, calendar driven budgeting exercise. In more normal times, the strategic planning update would have been done in September or October last year, but that went out the window, along with the...
The 2020 StrategyAudit blog scorecard.
Which StrategyAudit posts gathered attention during 2020? The StrategyAudit blog, and supporting research is both a personal archive of ideas, that vary from complete to really half-baked, a recitation of the things I see and learn from those I work and...
New Year’s Day 2021
Well, we made it through the most disruptive year in the last 50. As I reflect, it was the last gasps of the war in Vietnam and Australia's involvement that even comes close to the disruption of 2020. However, sitting in the epicentre of the Corona 'Croydon...
10 strategies business can learn from Bellamy & Bennett.
Rugby league is a ferocious sport, now gone well beyond a sport to be a profession, at least at the top levels. You can still play in the park, and enjoy the competition and physicality of it, but that is not what the top level is about. It is a business, and the...