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Who Starts the Transformation?

by Christian Rangen | Jun 10, 2021 | Interview, News, Stories

At the time, it struck me that we, at Strategy Tools, did not really have an answer to her question. So, we went back to our research, case studies, and interviews. We dug into our data, analyzed well-known cases, sketched out early designs for tools, and tested them. Eventually, we arrived at the Transformation Starters Map. What we found surprised us!

Connecting Strategy, Transformation and Finance

by Christian Rangen | Jun 2, 2021 | News, Stories

Successful business transformation comes from making a series of strategic decisions, aligning a large number of diverse players, and managing their culture, organization, finance and capital markets.

Building Better Cluster Business Models

by Christian Rangen | Sep 22, 2020 | News, Stories, Supercluster

A Global Challenge Over the past 5 years I have worked with more than 50 clusters and cluster initiatives around the world. Over the past 12 months I have read more than 250 cluster snapshot analysis. The single biggest challenge standing out across all of these...

What Do We Need to Overcome the New Normal? Better Strategists, of course.

by Tiago Grandi | Jul 21, 2020 | News, Stories, Tools

At the end of the month, we will see the third cohort join the Strategy Tools Global Coaches program in Portuguese. A consolidated international program to train strategists on how to use our visual canvases, the Global Coaches now advances in Brazil with Portuguese...

Hello, Ecosystem Series

by Christian Rangen | Nov 18, 2019 | News, Tools

Understanding and mastering ecosystems is becoming a key part of strategy in the 2020’s. That is why we have created the brand-new Ecosystem Series, the next chapter of strategy tools. This week we released four new strategy tools, all under the Ecosystem Series. Our...

Cluster Leadership? Look to China

by Christian Rangen | Nov 7, 2019 | Asia, News, Stories

As the world is looking to build better innovation clusters, most would benefit from studying the Chinese models. Last night I led a panel on Chinese high-tech clusters, and the key take-aways could be useful for many as we strive to build better clusters of...