Strategy: Finding a Way to Reach Your Goals

October 31, 2026

In a previous article, I described a business as a vehicle that...

Your Business as the Vehicle That Gets You to Your Goals

October 6, 2026

This is one of my preferred analogies to use for helping a...

“We Already Have BI”: Why Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence Are Different Disciplines

June 23, 2026

There’s a sentence we hear in introductory calls that signals a confusion...

Chokepoints All the Way Down: What the Semiconductor Supply Chain Teaches Everyone Else

June 20, 2026

Neon makes up 0.0018% of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is captured as...

Dumped Milk and Empty Shelves: The Three Ways Agri-Food Supply Chains Break

June 20, 2026

In the spring of 2020, two things were true at the same...

Your Supply Chain Is a Set of Decisions Someone Made Without You

June 20, 2026

The call usually comes after. Ours came from a major Central European...

The Hydrogen Window: Europe Is Building Its Next Industrial Ecosystem, and the Pattern Looks Familiar

June 12, 2026

Somewhere around 2008, a European engineering company that had spent its existence...

Why Competitor Analysis is a Must for Your Business

November 22, 2024

Here’s the fate of most competitor analysis: a folder of competitor profiles,...

What a Real Strategy Contains

April 16, 2024

What a Real Strategy Contains Ask ten leaders what strategy is and...