“Since January (2011), the Financial Times has reported that more than 30 organizations — from Albertis, the Spanish airports operator, to Zenergy Power, the superconductor developer — are carrying out, will carry out or have carried out some sort of “strategy review” Andrew Hill, Financial Times , 14 June 2011               It’s official! Strategy is fashionable again! For the last ten-plus years, “strategy” was a...

India will become a major factor in your value chain over the next two years either as a large market, important supplier, source of competition, valuable partner, or role model. Regardless of the size of your firm or the industry in which you compete, you will be impacted by India. Are you prepared with an India strategy or will you be taken by surprise? Additional Info at info@strategicleverage.com  Seminar Overview India has one of the largest and fastest...

Strategic Leverage™: Getting Traction in Today’s Marketplace simplify planning. These tools enable you to quickly identify the two or three issues critical to your business’s success. Net result: you and your team focus on the things that really matter. You identify and eliminate activities and projects that divert precious people, time, and money. You go from planning to executing faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence. Additional Info at...

Executives today are keenly aware that information technology (IT) is critical to business success. However, they lack tools and processes to help them link their business strategies to key IT decisions such as, “How much should we spend on IT? Why? Where should we focus our IT investments? How much centralization should we have and in which areas?” Over the past three years I have been researching this issue, through my teaching at Chicago Booth and my own...