Here is my “If only I had this 12 years ago…” moment. I have been working with the Argenti system now for close to a year and I feel like weeping every time I think of the pain that I went through doing strategic planning since the late 1990s. This method is genius; simple, clean, effective. And one of the best parts is, it puts the bulk of Strategy work at the top of the food chain i.e. at CEO level. But the real beauty of the Argenti System is its essential purity. You read through it, and you understand: here is the culmination of one brilliant man’s decades of experience condensed into a very readable – and usable – format. It filters out the static and shows you what to do, how to do it, at what stage to do it and what to watch out for. And if it’s good enough for Australia’s Wesfarmers, I dare say it will be good enough for most companies…
Details here: http://www.argentisys.com/
I cannot recommend this highly enough; cut through the gibberish and discover what it takes to define strategy in the real world. But remember this: don’t take bits of it and change it. It doesn’t work like that – and I mean that literally. It is a tight, disciplined, focused system that works if you follow it – if you want to try and change it, you are better off doing something else entirely.
