Strategy in Action Platform
Connecting, inspiring and empowering strategy executives
Strategy executives are expected to take the lead and drive their organisation to success. And in today’s rapidly changing and uncertain world, they’re also expected to keep their businesses agile and future-fit. There’s no established playbook for this.
This is why the Strategy in Action Platform exists – to help senior strategists like you devise, shape and execute winning, future-proof strategies that are fit for a volatile world.
Join a powerful community
Where do CEOs, CSOs, Heads of Corporate Planning, General Managers, Partners and board members go to network, share approaches and access the very latest research? The answer is they meet here, at the Strategy in Action Platform.
The platform is a powerful community of change-makers – and a safe space to share, discuss and take part in thought-provoking events. It’s also a unique source of rigorous academic research and insight that can take your organisation to the next level.
Research to power your company
Members participate in research that’s both academically robust and practical, with real-life relevance. You help to set the research agenda – and you contribute to it.
We cover topics including building strategic flexibility, strategy implementation and change, thriving through digital disruption, strategic renewal and growth, winning in different business environments – and strategy beyond the marketplace, in governments, society and the planet.
You’ll get practical, actionable insights, frameworks and tools to fuel your company’s strategy.
Network, explore, deepen your thinking
The platform is organised around three types of activities, all designed to deliver actionable insights for your company.
We hold hands-on workshops twice a year to explore best practice, case studies and experiences. We also invite you to take part in benchmarking activities – and to share your challenges and questions with us.
We connect you to experts – and provide you with relevant, up-to-the-minute research and tools to power your strategy and decision-making.
Recent research
White paper: Strategy in turbulent times
How do you survive a crisis and bounce back? Our strategy experts reflect on the implications of the pandemic for business, share best practice on how to deal with the current situation in the short term – and offer approaches and advice on building strategy for the new normal.
White paper: The three layers of strategy
In today’s complex and turbulent world, traditional models that focus on building a competitive advantage no longer apply. Instead, you need to be flexible and agile – ready to move rapidly from one advantage to the next. And managers who want to build sound business strategy need to think in the present, as well as the near and distant future – all at the same time.
White paper: Building corporate foresight for turbulent times
Corporate foresight is a firm’s ability to interpret changes in the business environment and to develop insights into future alternative states that are based on these changes. It includes the activities that aim at screening, interpreting, and acting upon key drivers of change in a company’s business ecosystem. In this white paper, we present the crucial steps in the foresight process and describe the challenges and the typical managerial biases associated with looking into an uncertain future.
Six Batteries of Change
To deal with continuous transformation, you need to step away from a purely top-down and sequential change process. This toolkit measures your organisation’s energy level in six key areas.
White paper: A new strategy model for dealing with turbulent times
The last few years have been turbulent for many organisations. Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, electricity prices going through the roof, supply chain problems, digital disruptors... This raises an important question: To what extent are the traditional strategy models still useful in this new business environment?
Members
Expert faculty
Carine Peeters
Professor of Strategy
Carine Peeters is a firm believer in boosting company performance through people.
Martin Weiss
Professor of Strategy
Martin Weiss furthers corporate strategy in a world of uncertainty and unpredictability.
Kurt Verweire
Professor of Strategy
Kurt Verweire is a specialist in helping companies to develop and implement winning business strategies.
Kerstin Fehre
Professor of Strategy
Kerstin Fehre is passionate about strategy and explores the ways organisations make strategic decisions.
Leonardo Meeus
Visiting Professor of Nonmarket Strategies
Leonardo Meeus helps companies to take a broader perspective on strategy.
Filip Abraham
Professor of International Economics
Filip Abraham specialises in the impact of developments in business environments worldwide on countries, regions and companies.
Philippe Haspeslagh
Professor of Strategy
Philippe Haspeslagh is a leading academic and international expert in strategic management, governance and mergers and acquisitions.
Esha Mendiratta
Professor of International Business
Esha Mendiratta’s research focuses on the intersection of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international business.
Join us
The Strategy in Action Platform is a community of trust, inspiration and empowerment. Join us to be surrounded by senior leaders and high-profile strategists who are eager to learn, be challenged, benchmark and co-create strategy knowledge and best practice.
And if you want to take your membership even further, you can become a platform partner. Partnership allows you to co-create strategy approaches, be acknowledged as a thought leader – and directly influence our focus.