#1 Way to Make ERM Become More Strategic

In my opinion, it is to read what they read. Until we understand how the C Suite and Board thinks then we will always be on a steep uphill climb. One reading list:

·       Business Models

o   Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur)

o   Value Proposition Design

·       Disruption

o   No Ordinary Disruption (Dobbs et al.)

o   Big Bang Disruption (Downes & Nunes)

o   Your Strategy needs a Strategy (Reeves et al)

o   Create Marketplace Disruption (Hartung)

o   Superforecasting (Tetlock and Gardner)]

o   Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne)

·       Strategy (more general)

o   The Lean Startup (Ries)

o   Playing to Win (Lafley and Martin)

o   Brand Resilience (Copulsky)

o   Discovery Driven Growth (McGrath and MacMillan)

o   Upside (Slywotzky)

o   Innovator’s Toolkit (HBS)

o   Geography of Genius (Weiner)

o   Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick (Bradley et al.)

·       Strategic Execution

o   Achieving the Execution Edge (Bart & Schreiber)

o   Strategic Project Management Made Simple (Schmidt)

o   When Strategy Execution Marries Risk Management (Ow)

o   Seven Strategy Questions (Simons)

o   Strategy that Works – How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap (Leinwand & Mainardi)