article thumbnail

How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

In the context of our increasingly disrupted, globalizing, and multicultural world, leaders greatly appreciate the security and comfort of clear-cut strategic plans for the future. Take the most popular of them, the SWOT analysis, where you try to figure out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats facing your business.

SWOT 174
article thumbnail

Flow of NOISEanalysis

Mike Cardus

I made NOISEanalysis to be solution-focused as opposed to SWOT, which feels problem-focused. Exceptions are perhaps the weirdest, and what separates NOISEanalysis from SWOT. Since covid19 shifted the environment significantly and pushed us into a global pandemic, I’ve been mixing the NOISEanalysis with premortems and red teaming.

SWOT 167
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. By Mark Hefner. ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. That is the good news.

Process 150
article thumbnail

Industry Analysis Is Dead. What's Next?

Harvard Business Review

A lot of our most cherished tools — five-forces analysis, the BCG portfolio matrix, and even SWOT analysis — rest on this assumption. To take one example that crossed my desk recently, consultancy Accenture has developed a point of view on what they call the "Age of Aggregation."

article thumbnail

The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. The Cartesian Coordinate system was developed by the philosopher and mathematician Descartes it was further developed in business to be thought of as the 2×2 model. It forces you to make better decisions.

article thumbnail

Criteria for a Critical Decision

CO2

They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. The Cartesian Coordinate system was developed by the philosopher and mathematician Descartes it was further developed in business to be thought of as the 2×2 model. It forces you to make better decisions.

article thumbnail

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. To develop better risk management behaviors, CEOs need to: List a minimum of eight ideas for new initiatives.