Wrike

JULY 31, 2019

It’s proof that sometimes the best business problem-solving tools really are the simplest. . Problem: You know your team isn’t using hours effectively. employees , 49% of respondents said they have trouble locating the documents they need at work. Here’s a frightening statistic: For the average worker, only 2.8

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StrategyU

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Most people don’t realize that you can find the strategy documents of most public companies by going to their investor relations page and then looking for recent presentations that they have made at conferences. These kinds of things are also included in most companies’ annual reports or 10-K documents.

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StrategyU

JULY 23, 2021

At this point, I still use the Vivo Strategies for legal documents but rarely use it with anything else. However, anyone who has worked on these specific teams within the firm knows that the internal documents they share with clients are much more specific. If I can get them to edit the document directly, even better.

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StrategyU

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This can lead to frustration and wasted effort on trivial matters (I once had a manager who made me capitalize a word that really shouldn’t have been capitalized on every document). Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Is this feedback on something that they can control?

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StrategyU

OCTOBER 6, 2024

They might say yes initially but then I ask if they’ve read strategy reports, investor documents, done store visits (if appropriate), and done interviews to understand their clients better. You can find it in corporate strategy documents, earnings call transcripts, press, and public interviews. If so, how much? He was supportive.

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StrategyU

AUGUST 19, 2024

How are we planning on formatting various documents? The bottom-up mode would be the writing and would include the surprising insights that emerge as you move through the document. Whether you’re leading a team, starting a business, or simply trying to improve your decision-making, this meta-process can offer you something.

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StrategyU

JULY 5, 2020

Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? Special thanks to Antoine Buteau for his contributions to this essay.

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