Robust Strategic Planning  to Disciplined Strategy Implementation 

Practices, Processes & Systems

 Three Best Practices for Project Success: A pdf by Booz, Allen & Hamilton

How to Build & Use Scenarios

Executive Simulations is attempting to Redefine Strategy Making : Offers a platform for strategic thinking that amplifies brainpower by defining, organizing, simulating, and producing multiple options

How Companies make Good Strategic Decisions: A Mckinsey Survey

Interesting Resource on Strategic Planning

Blue Ocean Strategy  : Is your company stuck in a red ocean?

Rethinking  Strategic Planning : A Future's Perspective

Business Model Design &  Innovation for Competitive Advantage

Mintzberg's 5 Ps for Strategy

Roland Berger Business Audit Approach

Interesting Viewpoints on Strategy & Execution

What CSO's think about their role : McKinsey Roundatable

How to Win by changing the Game : Capabilities-driven strategy  for growth in uncertain times

Capturing Hidden Value - Eight Principles for Optimizing Business Processes

Difference between Strategy & Tactics :"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu

When facing uncertainty, Wharton management professor Sarah Kaplan says that the best move might be to encourage employees to engage in "framing contests," in which they champion alternative strategy scenarios

Enhancing Business Value through Mergers & Acquisitions

Issues in Implementing a Management Models in organizations : An IIMA Working Paper

Changing Customers

Getting Out of Silos :Marketing expert David Aaker argues that to succeed in today's global arena, marketers must learn to appeal to consumers whose interests transcend individual products and regions.

Why Big Companies , Good Companies Fail

Three Factors for Success into Failure : Lars Kolind is the former CEO of Oticon, argues that size, age and success can make mature companies deaf to signals that portend future decline

How Companies Succeed

Must-Win Battles for Success: Companies must focus on three to five key challenges -- must-win battles (MWBs) that are crucial to achieving their business goals

Big Winners & Big Losers : Book on how the Big Winner companies  found opportunities in markets that others didn't see, and how they managed the tension between agility and discipline

Scaling Up Challenges

How to Recruit & Build Top Managers - Top Six Things For a Company Wanting to Scale-up Their Business: Attracting quality senior management invest their future in an early growth company is certainly a daunting task.

Battle of the Barbarians : Differentiation looks great in theory. Very difficult to execute. For a business to differentiate and build a sustainable civilization there are three imperatives.

Diseconomies of Scale

 As Big Mutual Funds grow in size, a study found that their performance quickly weakens

Do Diseconomies of Scale Affect Firm Size & Performance : A PDF Download

Growth Strategy Execution

Company that build their momentum , ride on it : A Wharton article

Why SMEs do not innovate more and how it affects their growth : An IIM A Working Paper