How questions are great, and they have their time and place. But when you are in the strategic phase, when you are trying to establish a perspective on the desired future state, and to develop insights to support going there, how questions get in the way. Think about...
If you’ve set a clear strategy, you have your ‘why’ questions answered. Why pursue a new market? Why disrupt a factory process? Why divest a business, or acquire something new? But, once you’ve set that, you can’t just sit around and wait for the future to come your...
Below is a 1957 mind map of Walt Disney’s vision for his company. Today it seems obvious, because most of what is there has come to pass (and then some). But pause for a moment to consider that Disney himself had no template for the market he was building. He created...
Everyone is talking about strategic alignment… but alignment to what? In my experience, people are a little lazy in throwing around a term like ‘strategic alignment’. I think we need to see strategic alignment in our community portfolios in a couple of ways: Mission...
The trend towards strategically aligning community investment with business strategy is a great one. Everyone wins: community investment becomes more core to the business, increasing the likelihood that companies invest; community partners are finally not at the whim...
“Chequebook philanthropy” is everyone’s favourite whipping dog, right about now. And in some ways, we at Karrikins are drivers of that particular bandwagon, as vocal proponents of strategically aligned, shared value creating community investment. But it’s worth...
