: however, the mapping work is designed to help people help themselves ...
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: ... with situational awareness, there is no need for what is poorly called the 'strategy' consultant industry.
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In the process, you're tarring all people who use certain words to describe what they do with the same brush. Including me.
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: to put it bluntly, I've seen enough companies endlessly meme copying with no context on the advice of strategy consultants ...
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: ... that despite the exceptions (i.e. collateral damage), it's worth calling time on what is ultimately a pretty useless field.
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You don't need strategy consultants to fail that way. Entire C-suite and board-member world fails that way. Off with their heads!
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: to be honest, as a shareholder I would be spitting blood over the way many companies are being disrupted by predictable changes.
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: IMHO the worst excesses of bureaucracy, duplication, bias, incompetence & lousy strategic play are in the private sector.
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: we have a delusion that boards are playing games of chess ... in most cases it's nonsense.
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The "digital transformation" is basically a mass extinction event with ~10% chance of an old-economy corp surviving the asteroid
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: it certainly is a punctuated equilibrium, a new breed of organisations are appearing (the new vs the traditional).
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: I'd refine by saying it's not that people are daft but the vast majority of C-level leadership lacks any form of context ...
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: ... which means decisions are made in the dark, often by gut feel, often on backward causality (general advice of consultants) ...
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