Organizations need to loosen controls a bit to allow innovation to flow (and because perfect control and prediction doesn't exist anyways). Additionally, they should promote the learning and adaptability of the organization (the use of 'smart as a competitive advantage').

Its impossible to have perfect foresight into these issues: Will the Trump administration reverse course? Will the effect be small or large for an individual business? When exactly will the period of stagflation occur, if it does occur? Generally, we expect stagflation to occur though and I'd recommend your team develop preparations contingent on cases of varying magnitude to cover a variety of expected scenarios

Many business professionals want to reduce the amount of time that they spend working on their businesses but their businesses depend on them or some other significant person. Generally speaking, this is referred to as key person risk. It is a risk to the business (and, such as with investment management firms, to the consumer) because if one of the key persons leave for some reason (departure, illness, etc) then the business will experience significant operational burdens, w

Some of the findings are unsurprising: education of management is significantly correlated with improved LBO returns, buyout success depends on vintage year, IPO exits deliver the highest returns, and so on. However, some of the findings feel very surprising to read

pretty good overview of business strategy at a top down level and at some of the divisional levels, such as marketing and finance

I write a bit about some more advanced graphing ideas in Excel

However, as food for thought if you are hiring people, the research has shown that, since at least 1986, experience isn't even a decent predictor of job (task or contextual) performance.

Analysts should consider themselves to have a duty to deliver on insights that don't just parrot the prevailing market opinion, but reflect their own professional views.

A lot of businesses get into trouble from time to time and its important to have processes in place for dealing with trouble as it comes. Fortunately, we have detailed templates and checklists for this. For the purposes of this article, I'm going to summarize the processes that take place.

Ultimately, good planning requires judgement and flexibility.

Its pretty clear that most or all businesses should integrate AI into their workflows. Its great technology for what it does, it can help cut costs, and it can speed up timelines tremendously in some cases, especially for routine tasks. I recommend it, I use it for our work- but there's a catch.

I discuss how businesses should think about adjustments to increase revenue generation

Examining Routledge's revisitation of Michael Porter's work in competitive strategy.