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How to Design a Robust Strategy for Growth

  Growth strategy is important for organizations, for it is exactly this strategy that answers the question of how the organization will adapt or even drive change in the environment so that it ensures its survival and prosperity in the future. Growth strategy simply specifies the actions that the organization needs to take so that it moves from where it currently stands to where it would like to be in the future. Growth strategy however cannot develop in a vacuum. The answer to the question of why the organization should exist both now and in the future should precede it and so does the answer to the question of what the organization wants to achieve in the framework that the answer to the “why” question specifies. Still , event this is not enough however. The organization still needs to answer the “how not” questions that are specified by its value system. It therefore seems that growth strategy alone is not enough. A good growth strategy should be devised based on the answers ...
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Which Markets Companies Needs to Address?

 T here is a widespread belief that a company can succeed when it can secure clients for its products and / or services. And this is quite true. When the products and / or services of a company are perceived from its customers as capable of covering their needs better than those of its competitors and at an affordable cost, those customers would most probably be willing to pay for them and the company would have the chance to sell them at the quantities required to make profits. One would therefore argue that good marketing of products and / or services well is the key to the success of any company. And yes. In a sense it is. But is this enough for companies to grow sustainably and therefore to succeed in the long-term? The answer is no!   Companies are not machines. They are essentially groups of people that share the same purpose. Companies do not however consist of randomly selected people. They consist of people that are selected, among others, for their talents, their...
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Which Is the Difference between Income and Wealth Production and what to Do about it?

  Every company is initiated by its founder with a dream, a dream that is substantiated by an idea. This idea is in turn based on the answers to questions like “what am I here to do?”, “why will I be better than others?”, “how will I do things better?”. In order for a company to be born, the answers to those questions need to be able to point out to production of value that would overcome the costs. And if this perceived value overcomes the perceived costs then commitment stats to be build. It only when this commitment becomes so strong that it would overcome the perceived risks that the company is born. But is this enough for a company to produce wealth? The answer is no!   Value can be produced out of an idea. But what kind of value this idea is going to produce depends. The production of value is not equivalent to the production of wealth. The production of wealth is simply a function of the production of sustainable value. The production of non-sustainable value is equ...
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Why Sustainable Organizations are Better Organizations?

Everything in the universe exists to serve something else. Nothing exists to serve only itself. And it is precisely this purpose, of serving someone or something else that gives meaning to existence! On the other hand, everything interacts with everything else, influences and is influenced by them.   As with all things in the universe, the same is true of organizations. Organizations exist to serve a purpose. And this purpose is nothing more than to serve someone else. Right? Wrong! The purpose must be to serve someone else without harming anyone. And because there are so many interactions, this task is inherently difficult. But everything starts and ends in society and therefore, sooner or later and somehow, good or evil will return…   During the process of building their mission and therefore their purpose, organizations no longer have to answer the question for whom and why they should exist. In parallel, they must answer how even if no other party is benefited from...
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Why CEOs Do not Know Most of the Problems of their Organizations and what to Do about it?

  CEOs should know… They should be fully aware of the problems that their organizations are facing at any particular point in time. After all, this is what they are being paid for! And they should not only be aware of all those problems. They should also be able to figure out which of them are causes, which are symptoms and which are only manifestations. They should be able to sort and to prioritize them. And they should be able to figure out solutions for them. They should ultimately need to be able to mobilize the resources they have at their disposal and to guide their organization towards their resolution. Right? Wrong!   Despite the fact that CEOs are expected to know all the problems that their organizations are facing, they actually do not. Quite interestingly, they are only aware of a tiny fraction of them! And there are good reasons for this!   CEOs are standing at the highest hierarchical level. No doubt, they enjoy a really good view from there. But tha...
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Managing the Strategy Process for Transforming Organizations

  One of the most important processes that the management of an organization is responsible for performing is that of strategy. This process is of great importance, as it is the only structured way to transform organizations. Quite often, however, organizations fail to run it properly and as a result transform themselves effectively.   It is hard to imagine how a strategy that has been devised by experienced managers or consultants might not be of the highest quality. After all, millions of pages have been written o ν strategy and this particular subject is quite intensively taught in all business schools around the world. However, even the most qualitative strategies fail. And why this is happening deserves some attention.   The proper design and the relevant formulation of the strategic narrative are extremely important. Strategic planning should start from the future to the present and take into account both the opportunities and the threats in the environment...
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Organizational Transformation or Organizational Redefinition?

There is a change and it is accelerating! And organizations cannot do otherwise but adapt to or even better lead it. For, if they do not do it themselves, their competitors will. And then things will definitely become tougher. At least that's how almost all business management textbooks teach. But that no longer seems to be enough…   The speed with which change occurs as well as its magnitude, has made the need to develop the ability of organizations to manage and at the same time to integrate it into their own DNA, more necessary than ever. Quite simply, organizations need to constantly transform and adapt if they want to survive and thrive. But if the speed and magnitude of change has made the constant transformation of organizations more than necessary, the change that a crisis like that of a pandemic can bring about requires much more than that. And this is because, quite simply, change, in addition to being fast and big, has now become traumatic.   Organizations a...
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