By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC For many enterprises, the coming fall season brings with it the start of the planning season for every function in the enterprise. Creating a market strategy typically culminates in sales kick-offs and company-wide get-togethers where the plan is unveiled, and it is hoped, bought into,… Continue reading Is Your Market Strategy Three-Dimensional?
Category: Business Strategy
How Different Must “Different” Be?
By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC They aren’t the best at what they do. They’re the only ones who do what they do.” The legendary rock impresario, Bill Graham, reportedly said this about the Grateful Dead back in the day. It is still a point well-taken now. Being “different”… Continue reading How Different Must “Different” Be?
Position Your Customers, Not Just Your Products.
By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC In the many articles we read about the art of positioning, most eventually end up focused on product or company attributes, benefits, and differentiators. None more so than in the world of B2B technology. While important, far fewer of these conversations center on customers… Continue reading Position Your Customers, Not Just Your Products.
The Story in Your AIs.
By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC So, it begins. The next secular wave of technological innovation. Actually, it’s already well underway. Its sponsors (and beneficiaries) span megacap companies like MSFT, GOOG, NVDA—to promising upstarts in already burgeoning categories, e.g., healthcare, software development, and cybersecurity where you can’t possibly have… Continue reading The Story in Your AIs.
Should We Stay or Should We Go? – Part Two
By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC In the first installment we looked at three environmental questions as part of a framework to inform whether a change in strategic course is warranted. Now, we examine the internal contexts for strategy change, with a particular view to the inertial factors that… Continue reading Should We Stay or Should We Go? – Part Two
Should We Stay or Should We Go? – Part One
By Paul Wiefels, managing director & co-founder of Chasm Group, LLC A new year brings with it fundamental questions for organizations: Do we stay the course, adjust it, or change it significantly? Staying the course is relatively easy when compared to changing it. Change of any sort represents uncertainty, risk, overcoming inertia. Teams can… Continue reading Should We Stay or Should We Go? – Part One