If the purpose of strategy is to change an organisation’s trajectory, from one that is taking it to its default future to one that is not only better but achievable, how are the strategic choices best made and how can the chosen strategy best be implemented? In this post, David Trafford and Peter Boggis present a framework for developing strategy …
Operationalising Strategy – Turning Strategic Intent into Operational Reality
David Trafford and Peter Boggis argue that there is often more to operationalising strategy than making structural changes, redesigning processes and training staff. For strategies to be truly successful, leaders need to create the conditions that enable the organisation to pull itself into an improved future – a future that not only reflects the strategic intent, but also becomes operational …
Making Your Strategic Signature Explicit
In this post David Trafford and Peter Boggis propose that the act of strategy development is essentially about deciding where an organisation aims to operate along a small set of strategic axes, where each strategic axis represents a source of value. Making these positions explicit as a strategic signature is an effective way of helping an organisation understand what it …
How Operating Principles Can Make Strategy Meaningful
Peter Boggis and David Trafford argue that the purpose of any strategy is to change an organisation’s trajectory, away from its current default future to one that is judged to be better. Unfortunately most strategies are too complicated, too detailed or too vague to be meaningful to the people who are expected to implement them. They lack a meaningful set …
Using Organisational Capabilities to Pull the Present into the Future
David Trafford and Peter Boggis argue that organisational capabilities have an important role to play when developing strategy or implementing change. They discuss how existing organisational capabilities can inhibit change by anchoring an organisation to its current trajectory – thereby taking it to its default future – and that new organisational capabilities are needed if an organisation is to have …
Setting Your Organisation on a Trajectory to an Improved Future
In this webinar David Trafford and Peter Boggis discuss the background to their book Beyond Default – Setting Your Organisation on a Trajectory to an Improved Future. They also discuss some of the book’s key ideas and case studies. Beyond Default is the result of a collaboration between David and Peter, who have worked together for over 25 years. During …