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Understanding Strategic Fit: The Cambrian A9 Power Grid

14 Tue Oct 2014

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Strategic fit express the degree to which an organization is matching its resources and capabilities with the opportunities in the external environment.

Matching occurs through the practice of pre-strategy analysis.

That said, it is very easy to fall into the trap of oversimplifying high-level concepts and overstating the intricacies and interdependencies of strategic-fit factors. Continue reading →

The IT Circus and the Infinite Loop – Part 1 – 2026 Remake

10 Fri Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, awareness, Best principles, Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse

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Big Data, business intelligence, Commercial IT, Corporate IT, Data Warehouse, IT business, IT Strategy, Pimps, Pundits


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The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading →

Understanding Operational Awareness for Strategic Success – For 2026

08 Wed Oct 2014

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Remastered for 2026 – Buy my books! Get my advice! Benefit from me!

I frequently include the term Operational Awareness in talks.

I think it’s important for strategy.

So I wrote a piece that tried to convey what I mean by the term. Continue reading →

Myths of Strategy and Data Warehousing – Remaster 2026

04 Sat Oct 2014

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Some people claim that strategy is primarily about building advantage[1]. My view is that this is not strictly accurate. Strategy is about overcoming significant challenges and achieving significant objectives; it is not intrinsically about building advantage, as if business operated in a perfectly symmetrical universe where commercial life played itself out as some perfect tinsel town idea of what business should be and what success should look like.

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