The Institute Way Blog
How to Test If Your Strategy and Team Are in the Weeds With One Simple Exercise
This one simple exercise to test (or spot check) your current strategy while you build it ensures it is at the right strategic altitude and is balanced.
Four Lessons in Strategy from the Game of Chess
Four lessons on how chess can improve strategy execution.
Common Risks and Challenges Impacting Strategy Execution
This blog discusses common problems encountered with strategy execution, each with typical causes and potential solutions.
How to Align Process Improvement with Strategy
Many organizations have strategy and process improvement teams working in siloes, both trying to move the organization forward in different ways. By aligning them to work together, there will be a better chance of improving objective performance.
Barely Hanging On – Strategic Agility in a Post-COVID World
The pandemic has impacted almost every organization in the world for the last two years. And many organizations did not have a system enabling them to be responsive to changes in their strategic environment.
Themes, Perspectives and Maps, Oh My!
A quick dive into understanding Strategic Themes, Perspectives and Strategy Maps and the differences between each and the relationship to one another.