The four questions to ask before you get ready to scale-up!
Answering these questions can prepare you to scale-up fast.
Read more at Book Summary – Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t.
Where and how does one begin the innovation process? Autodesk’s Innovation Strategist, Bill O’Connor, offers 7 questions:
How to create an integrated view of strategy? According to Kevin J. Boudreau, the most essential questions to address are:
Read more at
(1) https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-short-guide-to-strategy-for-entrepreneurs
Is your strategy aligned with your organizational culture? Who are you becoming in the pursuit of your goals? Who do you need to BE in order to achieve your biggest goals? Here is a fun exercise by http://fasterthan20.com:
Image Source: http://fasterthan20.com/toolkit/strategy-culture-bicycle/
What do you do better than others?
Is your entire organization aligned to do everything with this thinking?
If yes, then you are a “coherent” company. Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi suggest taking a “Coherence Test” as illustrated in the image below.
Based on this, Paul Leinwand and Matthias Bäumler have listed the following 8 tough strategy questions.
References: (1) https://hbr.org/2017/11/8-tough-questions-to-ask-about-your-companys-strategy (2) https://hbr.org/2010/06/the-coherence-premium
It was all about rich, in-depth and frank sharing of business challenges, opportunities, solutions and collaboration! A unique engaging rigorous Business Strategy Workout with cross-fertilization of ideas…
…and rich sharing of business referrals & leads!
Next meetup is on June 21, 2014 (3rd Saturday of each month)!
Interesting new groups keep popping up in Delhi – the freshest is Peerstrat initiated by Omnizient Labs. This group is designed for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Participants review each other’s businesses and explore ways to grow faster and be the best in your industry. Lively insightful interaction!
To know more about the structure of PEERSTRAT see this presentation here.
We are getting a huge response on our Facebook post here. Bookmark http://facebook.com/peerstrat to stay tuned for more news and events.
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