The past two years were as disruptive as they get for both society and business. So how do you plan for the next year when the past two were so uncertain? Success today requires hedging bets, keeping ...

Senior executives are responsible for developing the overall goals and strategies for an organization. Some organizations use strategy maps to translate intangible goals -- such as operational ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At all levels of an enterprise, the most defining change of the past decade may be the pace ...

Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process. No more. Today’s discontinuous technologies and disruptive change have reinvented the rules of strategic planning. If you’re going after a ...

When setting off on an expedition, a map is essential because it provides directions for reaching the destination. Similarly, leaders cannot complete the growth journey without an outline of their ...

Vol. 39, No. 3, Special Issue: Strategy Processes and Practices: Dialogues and Intersections (MARCH 2018), pp. 894-921 (28 pages) Research summary: Relying on ethnographic data from two consulting ...

You’re standing on stage at an award ceremony and the event host hands you a microphone and says: “Five years ago, your company wasn’t making money and nobody knew who you were. Last month, you sold ...

Maps have played an important role in scientific progress. Claudius Ptolemaeus transformed our understanding of the world with his map of Earth and Tycho Brahe our understanding of the Universe with ...

Avoiding friction points is often discussed as specific to user experience. And that is indeed useful in marketing optimization. But, 'tis the season for thinking about next year before this year is ...