Martin Reeves
Managing Director & Senior Partner, Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute
San Francisco - Bay Area
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
Introduction
For anyone leading a business or charged with developing a winning strategy, this book is for you. The world of strategy is thick with ideas and frameworks; Your Strategy Needs a Strategy will help you cut through the noise and find clarity regarding which approach, or combination of approaches, is your best bet.
The Strategy Palette
The strategy palette proposes five distinct approaches to strategy, helping leaders to match their approach to their business environment and execute effectively, combine different approaches, and animate the strategic collage of approaches.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
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The strategy palette proposes five distinct approaches to strategy: classical, adaptive, visionary, shaping, and renewal.
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The first chapter of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy explains why strategy has never been more important and why picking the right approach to strategy for a given business environment is critical.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
by Martin Reeves, Knut Haanæs, and Janmejaya Sinha
This new book from BCG’s Strategy Lab cuts through the clutter of strategy frameworks and provides clarity on which approach to strategy and execution—or which combination of approaches—is the best bet in each environment.
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Knut Haanæs
Alumnus
Geneva
Download Our App and See the Strategy Palette Come to Life
The Your Strategy Needs a Strategy iPad app and workshop revolves around the strategy palette’s five different approaches to strategy. Building on the book, the app simulates the five business environments through the example of selling lemonade in New York City’s five boroughs. It’s a competition, and putting the right skills to use will give you the advantage as you contend against BCG Founder Bruce Henderson, who knows what it takes to win in each environment. Download the app to find out if you have the strategy it takes to beat him. To schedule an app workshop with your organization, please contact bhi@bcg.com.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy App Workshop
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy App Workshop
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy App Workshop
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy Online Learning Course
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy Online Learning Course
Professors and faculty have used Your Strategy Needs a Strategy to teach their executive and MBA students the science and art of strategy. The book is built on recent case studies, with quotes from C-level executives that make the content tangible. The teaching notes contain suggested modules, readings, and study questions for use in classroom settings.
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy Educator’s Resources: Illustrative Uses for Teaching, Harvard Business Review
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Martin Reeves on Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
In this TED talk, Reeves advocates transitioning from relying on a single "classical" approach to strategy and moving toward a more tailored approach to strategy and execution, selecting from five distinct patterns of success.
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The Biology of Corporate Survival
Understanding the principles that confer robustness in complex systems—such as tropical forests, stock markets, and even companies—can mean the difference between survival and extinction.
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Four Principles for Better Business-Building
In the 1970s and 80s, nearly half the Fortune 500 are reported to have used BCG’s growth share matrix to design and operate their strategies. Today, technology is transforming every facet of the business experience. The question arises: Is the growth share matrix still relevant?
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Sir Lawrence Freedman on the Evolution of Strategy
The professor of war studies discusses the relevance of strategy in today’s increasingly dynamic world and where the next big advances in strategy will come from.
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