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Don’t be Surprised…

We often find clients that doggedly follow a strategic direction despite plenty of warning...

Mark Crocker June 16, 2025

Seek and Destroy

When working with clients on developing their strategy, too often we see them tempted...

Mark Crocker February 5, 2025

New Year, New You?

A famous line from Alice in Wonderland is “If you don't know where you...

Mark Crocker January 8, 2025

If You Know, You Know

Knowledge is a strategic asset and while it has always been good practice to...

Mark Crocker November 19, 2024

Shake it Up

Few senior leaders when making important strategic decisions consciously consider their cognitive biases. These...

Mark Crocker October 8, 2024

Same Old, Same Old

We often hear the term ‘innovation’ being used in organizations and generally used appropriately...

Mark Crocker August 27, 2024

Prime Time

Prime numbers are found hidden in nature. Buzzing quietly beneath the planet we inhabit...

Mark Crocker February 20, 2024

It's All About Attitiude

Providing outstanding customer service is one of the most rewarding yet challenging activities within...

Mark Crocker December 11, 2023

Distracting Distortions

Strategic decision making is not easy and many times they go wrong due to...

Mark Crocker November 6, 2023

Good Luck!

The element of luck is often cited in business and careers and here at...

Mark Crocker October 30, 2023

Functional Dysfunction

Many organizations have invested huge amounts in customer relationship management (CRM) applications and these...

Mark Crocker October 23, 2023

Transformation Time

Like individuals, organizations change continuously, reacting to developments in their markets and to the...

Mark Crocker September 27, 2023

Building a Winning CRM Strategy

“Getting the right product, to the right customer, at the right time, via the...

Mark Crocker February 14, 2022

The Customer Management Myth

Our view on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is unambiguous. For us it is all...

Mark Crocker January 12, 2022

Time for a Change?

Like individuals, organizations change continuously, reacting to developments in their markets and to the...

Mark Crocker June 21, 2021

Risk Versus Reward

Trying to avoid all risk in business is the same as trying to avoid...

Mark Crocker March 11, 2020

The Data Dilemma

The strategic impact on companies of the exponential technological rate of change is both...

Mark Crocker February 24, 2020

Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You

As the performance review season comes to its usually unsatisfactory conclusion for many, we...

Mark Crocker February 11, 2020

Behavioural Science?

Conventional wisdom amongst those running organizations would agree that there is value in good...

Mark Crocker September 23, 2019

Engaging Conversations

Organizations care about employee engagement because the facts would suggest that it directly impacts...

Mark Crocker May 6, 2019