Category: Strategic thinking & Planning
Thinking further ahead than the current sprint. Strategy, planning, anticipating change, reading the environment and making decisions when the picture is incomplete.
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Evidence Based Management: Making Better Decisions at Work
Evidence based management means making important decisions using the best available evidence from four sources: your own professional expertise, organisational data, the scientific literature, and the concerns of the people affected. Introduction Most management decisions are made with evidence of some kind. Someone has a view, someone else has a dashboard, and […]
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What is Productive Behaviour – A Provocation
It’s easy to only consider activities that immediately result in an output as productive behaviour. However, to succeed, we need to widen our sense of what productive behaviour is, particularly in complex environments and in remote and hybrid teams. What is Productivity? In our work, we often ask people to explore what […]
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Remote Working Pyramid – Critical Success Factors for Remote organisations
In 2020 BCG published a helpful visual detailing the factors organisations need to consider and action to thrive under hybrid and remote conditions. These include: Vision, Remote Working Models, Enablers and Technological Solutions and Infrastructure. BCG’s Remote Working Pyramid In 2020, near the start of the global Covid outbreak, Boston Consulting Group […]
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The Choluteca Bridge Incident: Lessons on acceptance and change
The Choluteca Bridge is a nearly indestructible bridge commissioned by the Honduran government to cross the Choluteca river. In the year it was completed, Hurricane Mitch flooded the area and the river forged a new course, leaving a bridge over nothing, heading nowhere. The Choluteca Bridge Honduras experiences a lot of significant […]
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Maximizing Vs. Satisficing – What is good enough?
Is it better to spend the time and effort to maximize the outcome of a situation? Or is it better to spend less time and simply sufficently satisfy your objectives? Maximizing Vs Satisfycing To maximize or satisfice, that is the question. Or at least it is one that people face on a […]
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Boston Matrix – A strategic product assessment framework
The Boston Matrix is a classic strategic tool for assessing an organisation’s products. It groups them across two dimensions, representing them in a 2×2 matrix with quadrants labeled: Stars, Cash-cows, Question Marks and Dogs. Boston Matrix The Boston Matrix, which gets its name from the Boston Consulting Group and is sometimes known […]
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SWOT Analysis and Your Personal SWOT
SWOT is a simple, essential strategic analysis tool used to analyse an organisation. It stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. We sometimes use it as a “personal SWOT” in relation to ourselves / participants in our programmes as well. SWOT SWOT is one of the most famous and ubiquitous strategic planning […]
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PESTLE Analysis – A strategic tool for analysing external factors
PESTLE Analysis is a strategic framework setting out six external factors to consider when evaluating the strategic direction of an organisation. The six factors are: Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental. PESTLE Analysis Definition PESTLE Analysis is a fairly simple, classic and helpful strategic decision making tool used to guide consideration […]
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The Replication Crisis in Psychology – Holding Some Theories Lightly
The “Replication Crisis” in the world of psychology refers to the fact that many experiments that have lead to eye catching findings, and which have formed the basis of how we think about people and work, cannot be replicated. Their core findings simply do not hold up when tested again. This brings […]
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E182 – Redefining Entrepreneurial Success From An Organisational Psychology Perspective With Dr. Hayley Lewis Part 1
From the archive This episode is from The World of Work Podcast, made by James Carrier and Jane Stewart at the World of Work Project — a previous venture of ours. All 187 episodes, recorded between 2019 and 2024, are kept here because the conversations still hold up. You can find Jane on LinkedIn, and…
