JANUARY NEWSLETTER

JANUARY NEWSLETTER

Happy New Year to you all! The year ahead is full of opportunity for strategic decision making.  Yes, there has been some disturbing news in recent weeks: the lowest ever business confidence rating, the highest inflation since last century, the government passing 400...
AUGUST NEWSLETTER

AUGUST NEWSLETTER

The big announcement this month is that I am standing for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. If you are in Tauranga I would appreciate your vote. It is a postal vote so you have to find a postbox but I will aim to make it worth your while. Please log on to my...
JUNE NEWSLETTER

JUNE NEWSLETTER

BACK TO BASICS -BORING OLD SWOT ANALYSIS This month we are looking at a basic strategic tool: The SWOT analysis. Last month I facilitated a strategic planning workshop for one of our clients. As  I introduced the session on SWOT someone said “I’ve done that so many...
APRIL NEWSLETTER

APRIL NEWSLETTER

WHERE ARE THE MISSING BULLET HOLES IN YOUR BUSINESS? -IT’S WHAT YOU DON’T SEE THAT MATTERS The Statistical Research Group was a unit of the US military in the second world war that employed statisticians to solve military challenges. One problem was how to better...
MARCH NEWSLETTER

MARCH NEWSLETTER

PATTERNS OF HISTORY TO FORESEE THE FUTURE Strategists use History as a tool for making judgements about the future. Hopefully the origins of the First World War is still taught in schools in these times when Russia and Ukraine are at war. History as a discipline...