{"id":218,"date":"2010-02-25T17:21:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-03-25T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:05:14","slug":"is-your-strategy-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/is-your-strategy-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your strategy working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a taxi around Elephant and Castle in south London has often proved hard.<\/p>\n<p>Until yesterday, when one came along the road as I stepped out of a meeting. Chatting to the driver, I mentioned the challenge of finding a cab there. He said he went up that road regularly every day.\u00a0Having dropped a passenger in\u00a0central London or the City,\u00a0his strategy is to return to the King&#8217;s Road in west London via Blackfriars bridge and Lambeth. And it works. He never\u00a0has any problem &#8220;making his money&#8221;. Other cabbies, he said,\u00a0often sit on ranks in the City for half an hour waiting for a fare to come along.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs a strategy. If you are a high-tech company, are you going to licence your IP, provide a service or become a product company? If you are a hospital, how are you going to continue making life better for patients in the face of funding pressures?<\/p>\n<p>Without a strategy, achieving your goals is just luck. How is\u00a0your strategy working?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a taxi around Elephant and Castle in south London has often proved hard. Until yesterday, when one came along the road as I stepped out of a meeting. Chatting to the driver, I mentioned the challenge of finding a cab there. He said he went up that road regularly every day.\u00a0Having dropped a passenger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[16,67,45,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}