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🎥 From the Field: Christine Blyth on Turning Strategy into Execution

We put the question to Christine Blyth, Head of Strategy & Transformation at Evolvere AU.

Aug 4, 20251 min read

From Data to Direction: How Strategy Director Laura Agricola-Moss Turns Insight into Impact

A conversation with Laura Agricola-Moss, Strategy Director at Keep Left

Jul 28, 20254 min read

Embedding Strategy in Rhythm, Culture and Execution

A conversation with Yianna Papanikolaou, former Chief Transformation Officer at Westpac.

Jul 23, 20255 min read

Scenario Planning in the Age of Black Swans

A Conversation with Brenden Varcoe, Chief Strategy Officer at Dabble.

Jul 16, 20252 min read

Strategy in a Fast-Changing Market or Organisation Structure

A conversation with Prashant Karnath, Transformation Strategy Director at Oracle

Jul 16, 20254 min read

Synthetic, Not Speculative: A New Way to Prove Creative Work

Opinion piece by Eloise Liley, Chief Strategy Officer, TBWA/Melbourne

Jun 26, 20254 min read

Designing Strategy in High-Volatility Environments

A conversation with Dan Canham, Founder & CEO at Tomorrow Strategy Co.

Jun 26, 20253 min read

Translating Strategy into Operational Execution

A conversation with Michelle P., Director - Strategy, Ops & Sustainability for Natural Solutions Co

Jun 26, 20253 min read

Balancing Long-Term Vision with Short-Term Pressure

A conversation with Ryan O'Connell, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder at Jnr.

Jun 26, 20253 min read

Why Strategic Planning Is Producing More Activity, but Less Conviction

In many organisations, strategic planning has become more frequent, more detailed, and more resource-intensive than at any point in recent memory.

1 day ago3 min read

Execution Management Tools Are Becoming a Core Strategic Capability

Organisations are increasingly investing in Strategy Execution Management (SEM) platforms, software that connects strategic priorities to operational delivery, tracks outcomes in real time, and automates governance workflows.

2 days ago2 min read

Future-Ready Workforces Don’t Start With Skills. They Start With the Operating Model

Most conversations about the future workforce start in the wrong place. They begin with skills shortages, reskilling programs, and the race to hire “AI-literate” talent. Those issues matter, but they are not the root of the problem.

Jan 284 min read

Forecast Error Is Quietly Forcing Strategy Cycles to Compress

More organisations are planning more often, not because they want to, but because their forecasts are breaking faster.

Jan 262 min read

Australia’s New Merger Regime Has Started, and It’s Turning M&A Into an Execution Discipline

For most of modern Australian corporate history, mergers have operated under a familiar dynamic. Companies could choose whether to engage with the regulator early, manage the timing strategically, and, in many cases, treat approval as a risk to be managed rather than a gating step that controlled the whole sequence. That world has changed. From 1 January 2026 , Australia moved to a mandatory merger notification regime for acquisitions that meet certain thresholds, and thos

Jan 194 min read

Shareholder Pressure Is Quietly Raising the Cost of “Strategy Drift” in Australia

Australian shareholders are using their voting power more assertively, and boards are feeling it.

Jan 192 min read

The Strategy-to-Execution Handshake

A simple mechanism to stop strategy dying in the handover.

Jan 162 min read

Boards Are Becoming Less Patient With Execution Drift

What recent disclosures, governance signals, and executive conversations reveal about how strategy accountability is changing

Jan 143 min read

Australia’s Cooling Labour Market Is Quietly Changing Execution Risk

Jan 121 min read

The Boardroom’s New Language

What Earnings Calls Reveal About How Strategy Is Being Rewritten

Jan 73 min read

Strategy Dashboards Are Being Rebuilt Around Friction, Not Progress

Strategy dashboards are no longer being treated as neutral reporting tools, but are instead being redesigned to change executive behaviour in the room.

Jan 51 min read