Beyond Default offers a different and innovative approach to developing strategy and delivering change. The approach is based upon a set of core ideas that collectively present a point of view on this important topic. These 20 core ideas are: The context within which an organisation operates is often more powerful than the strategies and resources that its leaders deploy …
Insight into how effective organisations are at developing strategy and delivering change
During a recent webinar participants were asked to give their assessment on how effective they thought their organisations were at developing strategy and delivering change. They were asked six questions to which they responded in a live poll. The results were both interesting and concerning. Interesting as they concurred with the answers I’d got many times before when asking similar …
Beyond Default Gets Five-star Book Review
Review by Gisela Dixon for Readers’ Favorite “Beyond Default: Setting Your Organization on a Trajectory to an Improved Future by David Trafford and Peter Boggis is a non-fiction business book on strategic management. Beyond Default is written for companies and organizations of any size, large or small, to enable them to assess their current strategy, and then develop and execute …
Why is Transformational Change so Difficult?
Marketing and Networking University, 25 October 2017 All the available evidence indicates that organisations are not good at delivering transformational change. Whether the transformation involves merging with another company, replatforming core IT systems or changing culture to become more customer-centric, the success rate – in terms of achieving the targets set at the outset – is often said to be …
Why Most Strategies Fail to Deliver
MBA World, 7 November 2017 Before the financial crisis of 2008, the leaders of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) claimed that they didn’t need a strategy, as everything they did led to success! Maybe if they’d had a strategy the UK Government wouldn’t have had to inject £45 billion of taxpayers’ money to save the bank. In reality, RBS …
Beyond Default Book Review: Don’t be a Failure by Default
Executive Magazine, November 2017 “All organisations have a default future – as do individuals, families, communities and societies. It’s the place they will end up if no action is taken, other than that which is currently planned. If the default future is judged to be an attractive destination, then there is no need to take any action; you’ll arrive there …
Beyond Default Book Review
Review by Graham White for The HR Director “In a world that has lost sight of the ageless skill of prescience Trafford and Boggis have produced a masterpiece of writing that in less than 300 pages delivers a new and innovative approach to developing, applying and implementing executive strategy. Despite asking question after question; (three in the first sentence of …
Beyond Default Book Review
Review by Alan Clarke for Quality World Magazine “The authors have set out a very well-evidenced and thought-provoking book, which gives an in-depth overview of how important strategy is to the long-term success of an organisation. Beyond Default explains that organisations have a default future, but that truly successful organisations are able to explore the range of strategic possibilities, and …
Beyond Default Book Review
Review by Espen Andersen of Applied Abstractions “David Trafford and Peter Boggis are those kinds of under-the-radar strategy consultants that ever so discreetly (and dare I say, in their inimitable British way) travel the world, advising enormous companies most civilians have never heard of about such issues as how to organise your internal departments so that they are capable of …
How To Develop Your Corporate Strategy
In this blog on how to develop your corporate strategy by The Center for Management & Organization Effectiveness, David Trafford and Peter Boggis offer six key points to keep in mind. Are you ready to get started with corporate strategy? If so, you’ve come to the right place. An effective corporate strategy is a crucial component of any successful corporation. …
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