Strategy Boffins

Consulting Tools

Ansoff’s Matrix

ansoff matrix
  • Stick to the knitting ( the business you know ) or get into repairing cars ?
  • Helps support senior management’s strategic discussions and presents the strategist’s guidance
  • Describes the firm as a portfolio of products and customers.
  • Doesn’t talk about how categories are linked to value, or strategic time, or how long market segment would be developed.
  • Aim is to leverage existing knowledge, facilities and relationships and avoid the “no-go” quadrant where conglomerates generally get into.
MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive)
VRIN Model
Value Net Model (Brandenburger and Nalebuff)
Resource-Based View (RBV)
Time-Based Competition
Experience Curve
GE/McKinsey Matrix
Kirana store / Grocery store strategy
BCG matrix
Value Chain Analysis

MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive)

VRIN Model

Value Net Model (Brandenburger and Nalebuff)

Strategy Boffins