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Business Strategy
This blog features teaching and student resources on business strategy, including case studies, news items and videos.
Organisational Culture: Tony Hsieh on Zappos, Core Values and Culture
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Strategy, Change & Culture: Moya Greene Seems to be Delivering!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Runner’s Up League and Cup Double
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Strategy & Technological Change: Will Google Glass be as Big as the Smartphone?
Strategy & Leadership - Harriet Green at Thomas Cook Outlines Her Strategy
Emerging Markets Strategy - JCB Exploits the International Opportunity
Monday, May 13, 2013
3 Businesses That Have Thrived during the Economic Downturn
Co Op Bank’s USP vanishing trick
Friday, May 10, 2013
Investing in Workforce Skills and Culture - the University of John Lewis
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Ethics, supply chains and consumer responsibility
The problems of overnight success – and how to prepare for growth
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Strategy: Kazou Hirai and the Forgone Bonuses
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Strategy: Profiting from the Smartphone Revolution
Monday, April 29, 2013
BUSS4 - Want Good Analysis? Think How & Why?
Strategy: Organic Growth Powers Whitbread’s Success
What does Apple plan to spend $100bn on?
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Organisational Culture: The Frugal Billionaire who Founded Ikea
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Strategy: Ikea Diversifies into Hotels
Strategy: Ikea’s Global Brand & Local Knowledge Drives Expansion into Emerging Markets
Monday, April 22, 2013
Strategy: Kazou Hirai’s First Year as CEO of Sony
Starbucks - Up Close and Personal with Howard Schultz
Strategy: eBay bets on Mobile Payments and PayPal
Luxury Cars and Emerging Markets = a Winning Product
Nokia: Has Elop Found Himself with a Problem Child and Dog?
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Organisational Culture: The Business of Business is People - Says Herb
Monday, April 15, 2013
Can Healthy Fast Food be Turned into a Global Success?
Saturday, April 13, 2013
An Organisational Culture of Trust - Insights from John Lewis Partnership
Strategy in a time of austerity & poverty - three retailers tell their story
Are supermarket economies of scale beginning to fade?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Are Businesses Too Slow to Change?
Saturday, March 23, 2013
The role of Business culture in business turnarounds
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Growth strategy - Tesco’s “Related-diversification” into Family Restaurants
Friday, March 15, 2013
Researching the Royal Mail - A Great Case Study in Change Management
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Culture and Strategy: A Selection of Company Vision and Values
Sunday, March 10, 2013
John Lewis staff celebrate bonus of nine weeks’ pay
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Sony sells iconic office block as part of turnaround strategy
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Mobile Strategy - the Battle for 3rd Place in Operating Systems
Monday, February 25, 2013
Nokia: Is A Slimmed-Down, More Agile Business Starting to Sing?
A Winning Corporate Culture in the Skies - Herb and His Airline
Organisational Culture: Lessons in Long-Term Business Success from Germany’s Mittelstand
Friday, February 22, 2013
Sony Rolls the Dice on Gaming Again with the PS4
An Organic Growth Strategy Based on Innovation - Lego Powers Ahead
Huawei - are three CEOs better than one?
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
All Change at Barclays: Can Jenkins Achieve his Cultural Transformation?
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Strategic Change & Culture - Kodak and the Winds of Change
Monday, February 11, 2013
The T in SWOT is Becoming More Important to Global CEOs
Analysing the present to understand the future
Samsung - the World’s Biggest Diversified Company?
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Findus hurdles to uncertainty
Friday, February 08, 2013
Is New Leadership Making a Difference at Yahoo?
Thursday, February 07, 2013
A Big Takeover in Media Market: Virgin Media Sold to Liberty Global for £15bn
From Public Company to Private Company - Michael Dell Buys His Company Back!
Explaining changes in business performance with the help of Radio 1
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Van Houten abandons the CD
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Elop Stops Paying Dividends as Part of Nokia’s Turnaround Strategy
Friday, January 25, 2013
BUSS4: New CEO - New Strategy
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Planet Money
Is outsourcing about to go into decline?
Monday, January 21, 2013
Changing the Organisational Culture - Clean Up or Clear Off!
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Now Blockbuster fails ... is the High Street dying?
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Dreamliner or nightmare
The HMV story
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
BUSS3 A* Evaluation - Strategy is Choice – Where to Play and How to Win
Friday, January 11, 2013
Leadership & Strategy at Amazon - Be Obsessed with Customers and Think Long-term
BUSS3 A* Evaluation - Do You Really Have to Pay That Dividend?
Retrenchment Strategy - Are Things Looking Better for Nokia and Stephen Elop
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Innovation - Behind the Scenes at the Airbus Wing Factory
Leadership - To be Exceptionally Effective, a Leader Needs CASE
Sony’s New Super Smartphone - A Premium Product, But Can It Compete with Apple & Samsung?
Jessops goes into Administration Is the Niche Market a Tomb?
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Big Firm launches smaller brand – the Harris and Hoole story
Revision Presentation - Delayering
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Revision Presentation - Ansoffs Matrix
Monday, December 24, 2012
Revision Presentation - Porter’s Generic Strategies
Business and technology - warehouse automation
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
BUSS4 Culture and Leadership: Walsh vs Branson - again
Ansoff and Tesco - What Went Wrong with Fresh and Easy?
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Turnaround in Tesco’s overseas strategy
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
HMV’s strategy of diversification comes to an end
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Do big profits mean that Royal Mail will leave the public sector?
Monday, November 26, 2012
Leadership - Insights into the Role of the CEO from BBC CEO Guru
Friday, November 23, 2012
Cross-Curricular Project With Our On-Site Art Gallery
Friday, November 16, 2012
More Retrenchment as Panasonic Tries to Stem the Losses
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Business Strategy & Sony - Where is Kazou Hirai Taking the Firm?
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Takeovers and Mergers - Irn-Bru Meets Fruit Shoot
Innovation: Big Spending on R&D Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Strong Innovation
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Innovation - the CEO’s Role in Making it Happen at Tesco
IAG Takes the Knife to Iberia - A Merger Mistake?
Saturday, November 10, 2012
China No Longer an Emerging Market - Soon to be the Biggest Market
Big Data - Helping to Offer a Personalised Product Offer
Big Data - the Shift from Intuition and Hunch to Scientific Strategic Decision-making
Hotel Chocolat - British Chocolatiers on the March!
Argos’ Transformational Plan - But Is It Too Late?
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
When One Becomes Two - The Cookson Demerger
Sustainability, brands, and marketing ‘the big idea’
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Takeovers and Mergers: Nike Kicks Umbro into Row Z
Thursday, October 25, 2012
“Place” in the John Lewis marketing mix
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Starbucks brews up big tax breaks
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
“Red Bull gives you wings” … and massive promotional visibility
Crash and burn BAE EADS merger collapses
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
