What baseball Can Teach Us About Strategy
A few months ago I was watching the Giants play the Angles (June 22, 2021 - Giants 5, Angles 0). In the second inning the Angles had...
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kmcgourty2
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
What is strategy? I thought you might want to know.
If you google “strategy” the following definition will appear: “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.”...
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kmcgourty2
- Mar 16, 2021
- 1 min
Strategy Should Follow Objectives
Don't confuse motion with progress. That is essential what happens if your strategy isn't focused on achieving a specific result. So get...
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kmcgourty2
- Apr 8, 2020
- 3 min
The New Rules of Doing Business During and After Covid-19
I truly hope and trust you are well and are in good spirits during these extraordinary times during the Covid-19 crisis. Yes indeed, we...
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kmcgourty2
- Oct 15, 2019
- 3 min
Keep Your Plans Simple Stupid
It isn’t that we don’t plan. It’s actually pretty easy to plan. I can tell you first hand, I have written thousands of plans. Many of...
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kmcgourty2
- Dec 12, 2017
- 4 min
Rethinking the Christmas Tree – the Never-Green Holiday Tree is Born
So it’s Christmas time and once again I find myself wondering why do I need to put up a Christmas tree anyway? What’s the purpose or...
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kmcgourty2
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Want to Improve Your Innovation Results? Then Approach Innovation as a System
A colleague of mine pointed out to me: “Every business is perfectly designed to produce the results it is producing.” What a profound...
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kmcgourty2
- Oct 23, 2017
- 4 min
Creating the Next Big Thing for Middle Market Companies
I recently joined Mike Smart Founder and Principal Consultant at Egress Solutions on a webinar to discuss the need and challenges middle...
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kmcgourty2
- Feb 8, 2017
- 4 min
Strategy Needs to Evolve to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Environment
Imagine you are the quarterback in the big game, and you find your team down 17 to 0, with 8 minutes remaining in the game. Your game...
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kmcgourty2
- Nov 16, 2016
- 4 min
The Balancing Act Between Deliberate and Emergent Strategy
In my previous article, The Reports of Strategic Planning’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated, we discussed why top-down (deliberate/intended)...
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kmcgourty2
- Sep 19, 2016
- 4 min
The Reports of Strategic Planning’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated
When I read management articles about the death of strategic planning, I am reminded by the quote Mark Twain quipped after hearing a...
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kmcgourty2
- Jul 20, 2016
- 4 min
Why Breakthrough Ideas Often Never See the Light of Day
A common ailment of new product development is the inability of companies to kill off projects that no longer demonstrate economic...
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kmcgourty2
- Jun 17, 2016
- 3 min
Creating a Competitive Advantage Requires a Reformulation of Your Strategic Playbook
In a fast pace competitive environment where change is the only real constant, how does a business build and maintain a competitive...
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kmcgourty2
- May 17, 2016
- 3 min
Identify “Strategic Possibilities” Using the Jobs-To-Be-Done Opportunity Matrix
In my last article, “Finding The Next Big Opportunity Using Jobs-To-Be-Done Innovation Theory,” I presented the “jobs-to-be-done (J2BD)...
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kmcgourty2
- Apr 19, 2016
- 4 min
Finding The Next Big Opportunity Using Jobs-To-Be-Done Innovation Theory
All successful companies have a clear strategic direction of where to play (their target market) and how to win (their unique value...
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kmcgourty2
- Mar 14, 2016
- 3 min
Great Ideas Are the Fuel of Successful Innovation
Coming up with great ideas must be a priority for companies who want to launch a continuous stream of successful new products. The better...
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kmcgourty2
- Feb 9, 2016
- 3 min
The root cause of new product failures and a cure
Studies have shown that the failure rate for new products across most industries runs between 40% to 90% of the time. And most failures...
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kmcgourty2
- Jan 13, 2016
- 4 min
Your New Innovation Promises to Change the World – But Is The World Ready For Change?
You have a great new solution that you believe passionately will help people get an important job done way better than what they are...
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kmcgourty2
- Dec 21, 2015
- 4 min
2015 End of Year Quotes to Noodle
Hard to believe, but 2015 is almost over At the end of each year, I like to post my favorite quotes I come across that either inspired...
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kmcgourty2
- Nov 23, 2015
- 4 min
“i-watch” form the sidelines: a great idea or too little too soon?
Dick Tracy was wearing a “smartwatch” way back in 1946. So the idea of a smartwatch is nothing new, at least not in the imagination of...
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