Folks:
Many of you know I decided to take the site down due to me starting another consulitng endeavor. This is my third start up over 30 years in the field. I thought my clients would not like charging them for some of the things I offer for you pro bono here. But my consulting practice is heading to solving very specific problems and thus now there is no conflict of interest. What is here will continue to be offered pro bono for hopefully the benefit of strategy professionals. I have a Conversations with the Network in this site which I have never used and if you would like I can activate.
Welcome to StrategyBest. We aim to serve the “practically rigorous” strategy professional in the for-profit enterprise who must deliver results. We will do this by integrating what is useful from academia with tried and true practice and emerging best and next practice from the strategy field. Or we will provide a refresher for your MBA or Strategy Certificate earned years ago. Or both. But all of this is to help drive results and performance that is the key accountability of the strategy professional.
Early feedback we have gotten in our soft launch of this site is that it is good but it is overwhelming. We agree. So after you read our Welcome, please go to How to Use This Site section, also in the About Us section for a guide.
This website is not a selling website – what is and will be offered will be pro bono. This website is a learning, content and action website aimed to help the practically rigorous strategy professional deliver results. It provides for you content I have developed over the last thirty years that has proven valuable for me helping firms engaging in strategy. It will also provide work, via citation, from the strategy professionals I think are the most authoritative in helping to learn what drives increases in firm valuation. But while I am considered an expert in our field, I do not have all the questions and answers by a long shot. This website is an environment for mutual learning and improving the field for the strategy professional.
We feel that for a for-profit firm to be its best, it must artfully blend what is tried and true with what is considered best practice and what is being noticed early as perhaps valuable next practice. The patience and skill to not jump to supposedly next practice, that turns out to be a fad, is of real value in today’s world.
We provide a variety of products, and services for the strategy professional at four levels of expertise: novice, apprentice, journeyman and virtuoso expert. But this website is an advanced practitioner website. Ideally, prior formal training in strategy (either an MBA or certification) and at least ten years of experience practicing strategy would be ideal. But we will appeal to the novice as well as long as they enjoy being practically rigorous and practicing from an evidenced based approach.
Our products and services rest on a knowledge foundation that has been thirty years in the making in the field and through practical academic research. Please see our Secret Sauce and Knowledge Taxonomy sections for more conversation.
As mentioned above, what we offer here will be pro-bono as it is our desire to give back to the field of strategy that we have worked in and enjoyed for thirty years. We hope to start a community for those strategy professionals in industry or as consultants who are practically rigorous and who must deliver results and performance in the for-profit enterprise.
As I say above, I do not have all the questions and answers by a long shot. But I have an insatiable curiosity about what drives firm valuation and the strategy professional’s role in increasing firm valuation. I do not know if anyone will find our offerings of interest and valuable – but it will be fun trying. But if our offerings gain traction and interest enough people we look to co-evolve this website and offerings with the community to advance the strategy field for the benefit of us all.
Sincerely,
Bill Bigler
Founder and Managing Director
