Strategy for the Rest of Us

Strategy for the Rest of Us

Dan Kiskis, PhD

Why your Capabilities should be based on Business Objects

Through my articles on Strategy for the Rest of Us, I’ve explored many aspects of strategy with the goal of presenting the concepts in a…

6 min readNov 10, 2023

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Making SWOT work for developing your Strategy

If you are like me, your first encounter with a “strategy exercise” was doing a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)…

10 min readMar 4, 2023

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Making SWOT work for developing your Strategy

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Aligning OKRs Isn’t Enough

Align strategy. OKR alignment will follow.

4 min readJan 27, 2023

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Aligning OKRs Isn’t Enough

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

2022 on Strategy for the Rest of Us

As 2022 comes to a close, I thought I’d do what a lot of others are doing and look back on the past year.

7 min readDec 20, 2022

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Two Types of Value Streams You Should Know About

Value Streams can be used for strategy or in process improvement using Lean.

5 min readDec 13, 2022

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Two Types of Value Streams You Should Know About

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Three Rules that helped me become a top writer on Medium

Three rules to success: Competence, Hard Work, and Respect

7 min readNov 23, 2022

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Three Rules that helped me become a top writer on Medium

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Gap Analysis for Strategic Thinking is Full of Holes — Here is a Better Approach

Gap analysis assumes a perfect view of the future. Strategy requires accepting ambiguity and making decisions to navigate through it.

6 min readOct 28, 2022

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Gap Analysis for Strategic Thinking is Full of Holes — Here is a Better Approach

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Scientific Management Using the Deming Cycle

Is Management a Science or an Art?

6 min readOct 15, 2022

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Scientific Management Using the Deming Cycle

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

Putting Cynefin to Work: Better Customer Service

The Cynefin Framework can help you design your customer service tiers for incident management.

6 min readAug 26, 2022

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Putting Cynefin to Work: Better Customer Service

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Dan Kiskis, PhD

The speech I never want to give

As I get older and move into the later part of my career, I know that there is one speech that I absolutely never want to give. It begins…

3 min readAug 5, 2022

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The speech I never want to give

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Strategies aren’t just for CEOs. Even those of us who run departments instead of entire businesses need to be able to think strategically, develop useful strategies, and communicate them to others.
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