Blog

How to Run a Blue Ocean Strategy Session on a Whiteboard

How to Run a Blue Ocean Strategy Session on a W...

Competing on the same factors as your competitors is a race to the bottom. Blue Ocean strategy maps a different course — and Switch-Its magnetic blocks make both value curves...

How to Run a Blue Ocean Strategy Session on a W...

Competing on the same factors as your competitors is a race to the bottom. Blue Ocean strategy maps a different course — and Switch-Its magnetic blocks make both value curves...

How to Run a SWOT Analysis That Actually Leads to Strategy

How to Run a SWOT Analysis That Actually Leads ...

A SWOT analysis is just setup. The real power comes when you pair factors into strategy — strength plus opportunity becomes an attack, weakness plus threat tells you what to...

How to Run a SWOT Analysis That Actually Leads ...

A SWOT analysis is just setup. The real power comes when you pair factors into strategy — strength plus opportunity becomes an attack, weakness plus threat tells you what to...

How to Think About Your Budget as a System with Stocks and Flows

How to Think About Your Budget as a System with...

A budget behaves like a system — funds flow in, costs flow out, and reserves sit in the middle until a trigger fires. Switch-Its magnetic blocks make that system visible...

How to Think About Your Budget as a System with...

A budget behaves like a system — funds flow in, costs flow out, and reserves sit in the middle until a trigger fires. Switch-Its magnetic blocks make that system visible...

The Iceberg Model: Seeing Past the Event to the Root Cause

The Iceberg Model: Seeing Past the Event to the...

Every missed sprint looks identical on the surface, while underneath the same patterns repeat. The iceberg model is a way to see past the event to the structures and mindsets...

The Iceberg Model: Seeing Past the Event to the...

Every missed sprint looks identical on the surface, while underneath the same patterns repeat. The iceberg model is a way to see past the event to the structures and mindsets...

The 5 Whys: Finding Root Cause, Not Symptoms

The 5 Whys: Finding Root Cause, Not Symptoms

When a project goes wrong, everyone arrives with a theory, and most of those theories point at symptoms rather than causes. The 5 Whys is a simple discipline for cutting...

The 5 Whys: Finding Root Cause, Not Symptoms

When a project goes wrong, everyone arrives with a theory, and most of those theories point at symptoms rather than causes. The 5 Whys is a simple discipline for cutting...

Put the Plan on the Wall: Project Management in the Real

Put the Plan on the Wall: Project Management in...

Most project management problems are not software problems. They're people problems. Specifically, they're problems of shared understanding — who knows what the plan actually is, who had a say in...

Put the Plan on the Wall: Project Management in...

Most project management problems are not software problems. They're people problems. Specifically, they're problems of shared understanding — who knows what the plan actually is, who had a say in...