If you've stayed with us throughout this series of blog posts, you'll now have all the tools you need to develop effective strategy. To help you on your way, this final post shares our top tips - gathered from our experiences of working with clients over the past 5 years - for managing the process. Top tip 1: Time Effective strategy takes time. You need time to understand the context, identify challenges and opportunities, and share that understanding with colleagues. You nee

Michael Porter is one of the world's most influential thinkers when it comes to strategy. He's developed different frameworks, models and tests and helped countless executives in the business and management field. What we want to do in this post is examine his formula to developing a successful strategy, to see if it will work for different sizes and organisations. Can one size really fit all? Like all good frameworks, Porter's recipe for strategy success consists of five sim