Synesthesia

Allan Kelly commented on my post from last year about the possibilities of using pattern languages to describe business strategies, to point out that he has done quite a bit of this already. So far the only paper I’ve had a chance to read is Business Strategy Patterns for The Innovative Company, which is a set of [...]

Rule 1 - don't use the phrase "Enterprise Architecture"if you can show someone a picture instead!

Over the summer I’ve been spending more time reading than writing, but even then the reading has been going more slowly than I expected! Just finished [bliki]Thinking Strategically[/bliki] and started to wrap my thoughts around [bliki]Strategy Maps[/bliki]. Unlike the previous books in my strategy reading which have focused on the [bliki]Game Theory[/bliki] approach to strategy, this [...]

A podcast and related blog post from Dave Winer [via Doc Searls] makes some important points about the true impact of DRM on the media industry, and led me to start thinking about the strategic forces at play in the current "Internet will eat the Media" debate. In this post I summarise his key points, and then build on them to produce a value net analysis of the media industry from the perspective of the current incumbents. In later posts I will look at the analysis from the perspective of the people who create the content and devlop some thinking on the strategies open to both parties.

I’ve been working through the books I added to my collection after the strategy course, especially Co-opetition and (just started) Thinking Strategically. When I was on the course, especially as we started to touch on the idea that certain strategies arise inherently from the structure of any situation (especially the [bliki]Value Net[/bliki]) it occurred to me that [...]

In the strategy course we touched on (in varying levels of detail) the three main views of company strategy - since the course finished I’ve been adding reading on all three to my “incoming” bookshelf: The market-focused, competitive advantage approach of Michael Porter: The resource-based view of the firm, typified by Hamel and Prahalad: The game theory approach [...]

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-5-9 Management and Virtual Decentralised Networks: This paper from George Dafermos examines the virtual networked organisation, with particular reference to the Linux development model. It concludes that this approach can be superior to the traditional corporation provided it is properly implemented. Keywords: Networks Technorati Tags Strategy

Part 3 of the pre-work for the strategy course, based on the tram company fictional case study. Continuing the [bliki]PARTS analysis[/bliki] started in part 2, I now look at Added Values. In [bliki]The Right Game[/bliki] Brandenburger and Nalebuff define Added Value as “the difference between the value created with the player included and the value created [...]

More prework for the Developing Deliverable Strategies course.

I’ve started looking at one of the pieces of pre-work for the strategy course. Summary notes of the problem are here. The challenge is to make the system profitable, with a strong steer to focus on increasing revenue. This post contains my first thoughts about a solution. My first thought was to look at the constraints in [...]

I’ve just received the joining instructions and pre-work for Developing Deliverable Strategies There are two pieces of pre-work: The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy [notes] Will Biddiford’s Trams Make a Return? [notes] Some interesting stuff to get my teeth into! As I’ve noted here my learning goals are to: Enhance my ability to think strategically Gain further insight [...]