Book Glance: Competing for the Future
The book presents a number of concepts that are helpful at various stages in strategy development.
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April 2020
Whiteboard Tutorial: The Purpose Pyramid
In today’s tutorial, we introduce the Purpose Pyramid and demonstrate how to use it in strategy development.
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Webinar: Planning Through the Pandemic, Part 1
On April 16, Rick Boxx of Unconventional Business Network interviewed me as part of their weekly webcast series.
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Whiteboard Tutorial: Situation Analysis/Assessment
In this Whiteboard Tutorial, we will learn how to do a Situation Assessment. Below are clean versions of what is scrawled on the whiteboard.
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Strategic History of Sprint
Over the past two weeks we’ve taken a tour of the history of telecom innovator Sprint, from its humble beginnings in small town Kansas to its final merger into global giant T-Mobile. We’ve examined the different stages along the way through a strategic lens. This article is intended to tie the whole series together into one timeline. Entries below are linked to the articles that tell the stories.
1986 United and GTE announced a 50–50 joint venture merging US Telecom and GTE Sprint to form US Sprint
1999 Sprint created the PCS tracking stock for the wireless business and bought out the cable partners
2000 Regulators blocked MCI Worldcom acquisition of Sprint
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Sprinting Into the Arms of T-Mobile
Today we finally reach the end of the story, the end of the history of Sprint.
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Sprinting Through the Hesse Years
I remember Dan’s first day. He held an all hands meeting with hundreds of employees in the Sprint theater and thousands more on video links.
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Whiteboard Tutorial: Business Model Canvas
In this Whiteboard Tutorial, you will learn how to use the Business Model Canvas and the Value Proposition Canvas. Watch it here.
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Surviving the Sprint Nextel Stragedy — part 2
Yesterday we started looking at four strategies that were critical to the company’s ability to survive the Sprint Nextel merger stragedy. Today we look at 4G and Prepaid. Read the full article here.
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Surviving the Sprint Nextel Stragedy — part 1
Moving beyond the Sprint Nextel merger, I want to focus on four strategies that were critical to the company’s ability to survive the Sprint Nextel merger stragedy. We will cover the first two today and the next two tomorrow.
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