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Exposing bottlenecks: the key to building a great strategy

Finding the key bottleneck to achieving your aspiration brings focus to both strategy design and execution.

9 min readNov 10, 2020

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Exposing bottlenecks: the key to building a great strategy

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What should a product manager do? And what are the key skills required?

Despite its importance, and obvious stepping stone to business leadership, the role is often misunderstood or poorly defined.

3 min readNov 27, 2020

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What should a product manager do? And what are the key skills required?

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The right way to approach product line rationalisation

Opportunities are all too often missed in this important activity.

4 min readJul 12, 2021

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The right way to approach product line rationalisation

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Arkaro’s Approach to Culture During Change Initiatives

Experience counts for successful change initiatives.

6 min readJul 12, 2021

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All initiatives require change management

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Don’t Let Accounting Mislead Decision Making!

The solution is Throughput Accounting, but let’s understand why cost accounting approaches can distort understanding

5 min readJul 12, 2021

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Capacity growth is not linear

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Strategy is an adaptive challenge not a technical problem.

The most common leadership failure is treating adaptive challenges as if they were technical problems (1)

7 min readApr 25, 2022

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Strategy is an adaptive challenge not a technical problem.

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“What’s Going On” — the essential input for change & innovation

Would you organise a dinner party with friends without checking on food preferences that might have changed, or competing events that…

4 min readDec 13, 2021

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“What’s Going On” — the essential input for change & innovation

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The Chronic Problems with Strategy — and how the Emergent Approach aims to fix them

Mark Blackwell & Pete Compo

4 min readDec 6, 2021

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The Chronic Problems with Strategy — and how the Emergent Approach aims to fix them

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The Emergent Approach to Strategy

The business press is seemingly clear — we are now living in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous VUCA world (as if it was not…

6 min readNov 8, 2021

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Strategy in a VUCA world by Arkaro

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Product Manager, Market Manager or both?

A common topic when listening to B2B clients is the challenge of understanding how to define the different roles of a product manager and a…

4 min readOct 25, 2021

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Product Manager, Market Manager or both?

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Mark Blackwell

Mark Blackwell

Founder of Arkaro (www.arkaro.com) supporting B2B and B2B2C organisations in strategy, innovation, commercial excellence and integrated business management.

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