Category Archives: Strategy

Northern Disclosure

When big, complex, bureaucratic systems know they have a problem, they try to fix themselves.  This results from a mix of motives.  There is a natural impulse to improve the system for the benefit of end users.  There is an equally natural impulse to avoid the intervention of outsiders in the repair of internal system…
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Business Planning, City Planning, Consulting, Disruption, Economic Development, Health, Strategy
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Business Strategy – It’s Not Tiddlywinks

We often produce strategic plans for clients, despite the clients being uncertain about what strategy is and how it differs from other kinds of planning.  Illustrations are often drawn from either sport or war.  From the perspective of a former rugby player, there is little difference. What sport and war have in common is a…
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Basketball, Business Planning, Consulting, Strategy
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Extinction of the Raptors that start with a “C”

Today I listened to a couple of respected NBA pundits who discussed a rather long short list of eight teams they considered to be prospective finalists next season.  They thought the length of the list was remarkable because the experts can normally isolate half that number as plausible contenders at the start of a season.  …
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Basketball, Business Planning, Consulting, Strategy
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Can a goose play chicken?

[caption id="attachment_3205" align="alignleft" width="400"] why can't it just stand on its own two feet?[/caption] Toronto as a City State… the idle speculations of big thinkers like Jennifer Keesmaat and Richard Florida seem like faint and distant memories now. As predicted here, the Premier’s hits on the City just keep coming, and no one will intervene…
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City Planning, Politics, Strategy
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