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The Flevy Blog covers Business Strategies, Business Theories, & Business Stories.
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Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the structured discipline for mapping an organization’s functions, processes, systems, data, and infrastructure into a coherent operating model. Think of it as the organization’s x-ray, blueprint, and strategic GPS rolled into… ArchiMate Framework
Trade policy just got a lot less predictable. The surge in tariffs and retaliatory measures is altering cost structures, shifting demand patterns, and throwing long-standing Supply Chains into flux. Some markets are expanding while others… Tariffs and Global Trade: The Economic Impact on Business
The Hawkins-Stern Impulse Buying Model offers a structured framework for decoding and leveraging unplanned consumer decisions. Impulse buying often bypasses logic, surfacing in moments shaped by emotion, sensory triggers, and context. Unfortunately, traditional data models… Hawkins-Stern Impulse Buy Model
In the age of tariff wars, fractured trade agreements, and vanishing multilateralism, macroeconomic resilience is no longer just about GDP or unemployment rates. It is about Balance and Trust. That’s where the Macroeconomic Fitness Matrix… Macroeconomic Fitness Matrix
The global economy entered 2025 on edge—decelerating demand, unstable capital flows, and increasingly hawkish central banks. Then April hit like a hammer. The United States imposed sweeping new tariffs on Chinese and EU imports, jolting… Macroeconomic Scenario Analysis
Organizations still anchored in goods-centric thinking are missing the plot. The old playbook—build it, ship it, bill it—is barely holding up in a service-led economy where value is fluid, dynamic, and negotiated through use. Enter… Service-Dominant Logic Framework: Premises and Axioms
Innovation does not fail because people stop ideating. It fails because organizations do not know what to do with the ideas. The Balanced Innovation Framework was built for exactly this challenge. It injects clarity, structure,… Balanced Innovation Framework
Ideas often emerge quickly within organizations. The challenge is not in generating insights, but in ensuring that they are captured, disseminated, and embedded at scale. Valuable knowledge frequently remains trapped at the individual or team… Organizational Learning Loop (the 4I Framework)
Strategy Development isn’t just a plan. That assumption leads organizations to treat strategic direction as a one-off PowerPoint event, crafted in a boardroom, rolled out in a town hall, then slowly forgotten under the weight… The 5 Ps of Strategy Framework
Not many frameworks push leaders to simultaneously wrestle with the now and the next. That’s the puzzle the Organizational Ambidexterity Framework is built to solve. First proposed by Tushman and O’Reilly, the framework lays out… Organizational Ambidexterity Framework
The Brand Essence Wheel is a strategic framework that sharpens how organizations articulate who they are, what they stand for, and how they show up in the market. Developed by the Bates Worldwide Agency in… Brand Essence Wheel
Success in business isn’t about being the cheapest—it’s about building an edge that lasts. Competitive Advantage drives long-term Performance, whether through lower costs, superior quality, or innovative differentiation. Michael Porter took this concept beyond companies,… Porter’s Diamond Model