Welcome to this first blog post in our series Sustainable Business in which we define sustainability and sustainable development as well as give a small glimpse into their history. We will also suggest some high-quality learning options if you are seriously interested in this important topic. What Sustainability Is Not Sustainability is not: A meaningless buzz word to throw around in an ... View Post
Topics on business strategy collected from our different blog categories.
Sustainable Business
Trees growing on building facades, drinking sea water, growing food indoors, trapping sunlight in the most diverse contraptions, and the list keeps going on. There is no limit to human creativity and that is fantastic because creativity we will need, if not only our present is to be secured, but the future of our descendants as well. Welcome to our blog series Sustainable Business in which we ... View Post
Why You Should Watch “The Biggest Little Farm”
Business-school graduates and business people may know their numbers, but a deeper understanding of how this planet works as a whole often is missing still. What to do about it? Start small and keep reading! The Biggest Little Farm So what's this farm? There's a documentary called "The Biggest Little Farm". It illustrates like nothing we've seen before how an ecosystem can work, how it ... View Post
Why Life-Long Learning Should Be Your Business Value
Life-long learners know that they don't know everything. Let's take a closer look at what this means, what opportunities arise, and why you should use this as a competitive advantage by incorporating it in your business values. You Don't Know What You Don't Know... ...but you can be one of us, who recognise this, sit with the occasional discomfort, and choose to work with it rather than ... View Post
3 Ways To Respond To Disaster And What It Means To Expand Your Business Model
When it feels like the world around us is burning and you can control very little, what options do you have for your business? We will walk through the three factual alternatives to respond and offer some ideas if expanding your business model seems a good idea. The intention is not to imply we can control everything with proper planning, because that simply isn't possible, but rather to raise ... View Post
The 9 Building Blocks Of Business Model Canvas By Strategyzer
If strategy is like a map to use for navigation, the business model is a snapshot in time of how the business currently is working to put strategy into practice. That's a literal quote from our first post, "An Overview Of Business Strategy For Small-Business Owners", in this blog series "A Business Strategy Primer". Strategyzer have published several books by now and their first one, "Business ... View Post
A Business Strategy Primer
Business strategy and strategy in general are among the most abstract concepts when you first start working with them, yet their purpose is far from theoretical, something to remaining impossible to understand and stashed away in someone's filing cabinet. And it's a misconception that they aren't practical. Strategic planning is the most high-level planning you can do and it's informed by the ... View Post
An Overview Of Business Strategy For Small-Business Owners
Strategy as a word is difficult to understand when reading many a blog post, as it's not uncommon to find it mixed up with plan and planning. Add the fact that strategic planning is its own concept and confusion is real. People also misunderstand different levels of business, meaning strategy is theoretic roughly put, whereas plan takes it to practical. Defining these concepts with examples will ... View Post
5 Reasons Why You Should Love Competition
Outsmart the competition, sell more than the competition, grow bigger than the competition, get more funding than the competition! Competition, competition, competition. Bad, elbow tactics, win, win, win. No, let's talk about why you should love having competitors to pull focus back on yourself in strategic thinking! We will walk you through five different angles of viewing your competitors as an ... View Post
3 Tips To Get Started With Business Strategy
Business strategy may sound very fancy and impossibly difficult to understand, but as with any new thing you want to learn there is a bit of vocabulary to master, and we will explain the concepts below. Keep reading to get three tips how to get started with your own business strategy! We will also give you our version of the definitions of vision, mission and core values as well as what they have ... View Post
Introducing Business Strategy
Few businesses become successful without solid strategies that are implemented with clarity and efficiency. For this reason, we at Wemla believe Business Strategy deserves to be its own blog category. Content So what can you expect? We will include topics such as business models, value propositions, and planning in this category. The idea is to increase awareness of where your business is ... View Post