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Update on Strategy Reading

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 [...]

Pattern Languages and Business Strategy

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 [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Post Course Reading

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 [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 3

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 [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 2

More prework for the Developing Deliverable Strategies course.

Developing Deliverable Strategies - Trams Study 1

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 [...]

Developing Deliverable Strategies

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 [...]

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