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Five Questions to Build a Strategy

People make strategy much harder than it needs to be. For some, the problem is that they focus too much on the tools: environmental scans, SWOT analyses, customer analyses, competitor analyses, financial modeling, and so on. Other people get into trou…

Books: The Napkin-books by Dan Roam

The visual problem solving framework proposed by Dan Roam in his books The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures and Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures is incredibly useful and inspiring.
The Back of the Napkin introduces the visual problem solving framework and its [...]

A New Framework for Business Models

Quick: Describe your company’s business model.

Having trouble? That wouldn’t surprise me. In reality, there isn’t really any consensus about what the term “business model” even means. Suggestions range from the all-encompassing, everything-in-your-val…