Podcasts by Developing Strategy: a Pragmatic Approach
This podcast teaches you how to design a strategy – whether for a business, charity or a function in an organization. With the help of his son Charlie, strategy academic and ex-BCG partner Jo Whitehead provides a simple, structured process, based on six questions. Visit our website to find out more www.developingstrategy.com.
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Tara Yamashita from 2020-08-26T19:16:28
An experienced strategist, who has been head of strategy at a major UK company, discusses the six questions and her advice on how to use them - plus many otherwise points about strategy!
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Picking which of the six questions to start with from 2020-08-26T15:35:52
Strategy involves answering six questions but, if you already have a good idea of the answer to some of the questions, you don't always have to start with question 1. In this short episode, we d...
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Which option is best? from 2020-08-13T11:40:17
At the end, what counts is picking the best option
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What are the options from 2020-08-06T08:32:37
All your analysis is in vain if you don't identify the most interesting options!
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Defining the issue from 2020-08-03T04:48:39
Question 4, defining the issue, is perhaps the most critical step in the strategy process, but it is often skipped over without sufficient reflection and debate.
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How to deal with highly uncertain situations when forecasting is bound to be wrong! from 2020-07-23T04:13
Sometimes the level of uncertainty means that forecasting is not possible. Perhaps the uncertainties are hard to quantify. Perhaps there is too much uncertainty for any one forecast to make sens...
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Bonus Episode: How VCs deal with Uncertainty from 2020-07-20T13:11
Sometimes forecasting is not possible. Perhaps the uncertainties are hard to quantify. Perhaps there is too much uncertainty for any one forecast to make sense
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Forecasting how things will Evolve from 2020-07-15T07:47
Different approaches to forecasting future trends. This is the first of two episodes on how to think about the way the future might Evolve (question three in our six-question framework). There a...
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Bonus Episode: Mission at the YHA from 2020-07-02T05:22:14
The ex-CEO of the YHA, Caroline White, describes how the YHA aligned their mission, organisation and strategy
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A sense of mission from 2020-07-02T05:05:26
Strategy isn't just about economics and finance. Strategy also involves understanding the mission of an organisation and designing strategies that are aligned to that mission. And, when the miss...
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Checking your actual performance from 2020-06-25T03:32:25
So far we have discussed strategic analysis, which tends to involve a lot of judgment and is thus prone to bias and misinterpretation. Therefore it is important to check whether your analysis is...
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Tools for evaluating competitive advantage from 2020-06-18T02:15:52
We present three frameworks for analysing competitive advantage. A systems diagram shows how the various capabilities and positions combine to drive cost and value advantage. A cost structure co...
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What drives competitive advantage? from 2020-06-11T02:00
We present a framework for understanding how capabilities and positions combine to create cost and value advantages. This framework integrates many theories about competitive advantage, which is...
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Creating value for customers from 2020-06-04T01:00
Looking at your company, charity, product (or yourself) through the eyes of your customer is always instructive. We discuss one simple tool for doing so - the Value Curve, popularised by the con...
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Bonus episode: segmenting the YHA's customers with Caroline White from 2020-06-02T06:50:42
In this bonus episode we chat to Caroline White, ex-CEO of the Youth Hostel Association, about the role of segmentation in the revitalisation of the YHA. Caroline is an experienced strategist an...
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Considering the broader environment from 2020-05-28T04:48
How does the the general context of an industry influence other factors, such as the five forces? PESTLE analysis is a common tool for developing a full analysis of this - PESTLE stands for Poli...
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Bonus episode: 5 forces in action with entrepreneur Daniel Hart from 2020-05-21T04:05
In this bonus episode, you'll learn a bit about how an entrepreneur thinks about strategy. You'll also get a great application of the 5 forces framework to what proves to be a very tough industr...
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Market attractiveness from 2020-05-16T04:35
One of the most fundamental ideas in strategy is that success comes (partly) by investing in attractive markets. Attractiveness for a profit seeking business is typically defined as being from a...
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A simple strategy matrix from 2020-05-14T04:53:08
Thinking of an opportunity in terms of its attractiveness (an external perspective) versus your chance of success (an internal perspective) is a good way to summarise the nature of that opportun...
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Segmentation from 2020-05-07T06:22:06
Our next episode starts drilling down into how to answer the first question - what is the External Environment? The first thing you need to do to make sense of your environment is to segment it ...
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Bonus Episode #1: a 20-minute strategy for fresh meal kits from 2020-05-07T06:21
In this bonus episode we illustrate how the six questions guide your thought process - by using the questions to structure a quick and dirty discussion about strategy. Charlie plays the CEO of m...
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The six question framework from 2020-05-07T06:20:23
In week 1 we deal with three topics. First, we define strategy as a Goal (or Aim) and a Pathway for achieving that Goal. Next we discuss why strategy is important, highlighting how a good strate...
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Introduction from 2020-05-06T19:44:11
In this first episode of our new series, we introduce ourselves and discuss our motivations for starting a new podcast.
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