Richard Rumelt shares the notion of the Strategic Kernel comprising: diagnosis, guiding policy, and set of coherent actions. I really like this idea as it focuses on the finding the challenge and how you grapple with it. Something so often missing from strategies I come across. I am also struck by…

It’s been on my shelf for an age but I am finally reading Richard Rumelt‘s book “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters.” I wish I had picked it up earlier, it seems to be an excellent book. I was pleased to note that much of what I…

One day in, I think, 2015 Paolo & I were walking along Tottenham Court Road engrossed in a discussion about how we kept finding the wrong people making technology development decisions and what we could do about it. Put simply, the problem is how often business people with little or no…

The key ingredients for a successful internet startup are a great team, a big vision, and a clear technology strategy.  As an investor you are probably very finely attuned to issues with team setup and whether the vision is attractive and challenging but will they be able to deliver that…