Blog Moved

After six years at TypePad and providing "more detail than any other blog ... on the consulting life" (*), Steve Shu's Blog has moved to a new location. I retire my TypePad blog with mixed feelings, as I felt it...

Posted on: 11 March 2011 | 12:10 am

Moving Future Management Consulting Blog Posts

Folks - for the future, I will be posting my management consulting blog entries at the linked site. The Feedburner reference has been replaced. Thanks for stopping by!

Posted on: 15 December 2010 | 12:39 pm

A Peek At The Difficulties of Incubating New Initiatives Within Large Companies

Entrepreneurial situations in large companies differ from that of startups, yet one thing that they seem to share is that they often represent "hope" in one way or another. In the case of large corporations, these new initiatives can not...

Posted on: 11 August 2010 | 4:24 pm

Perspectives on “The 24-Hour Customer” (Strategy, Marketing, and Innovation Book) in Context of Marketing Segmentation

Adrian C. Ott, CEO and founder of Exponential Edge Inc., included me on her distribution list for an advanced reading copy of her new book, The 24-Hour Customer. I cannot say enough good things about this book. In my mind,...

Posted on: 30 June 2010 | 3:16 pm

Should You Seek Input or Help From a Third Party?

People should view this post as a “food for thought” post. The idea for this post was triggered by things I have been increasingly seeing in companies as the recession bottoms out. The managerial situations are similar pre-recession, but anecdotally...

Posted on: 19 May 2010 | 1:12 pm

Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)

Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group and co-author of the bestselling book Groundswell, was generous to include me on her distribution list for an advanced reading copy of her new book Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the...

Posted on: 10 May 2010 | 3:49 pm

Book Review of “The New How” (Business Strategy Book)

It is atypical for me to write a book review for this blog, but Nilofer Merchant’s “The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy” is very respectable contribution to both audiences of this blog and the process of strategy...

Posted on: 26 April 2010 | 4:47 pm

How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don't Fail You

For many strategy engagements, a lot of attention is paid to the detailed analysis framework. For example, should a benchmarking framework be used? Or will that framework lead us down a path of mediocrity? Or perhaps value-chain or Blue Ocean-like...

Posted on: 12 April 2010 | 1:52 pm