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Strategic Thinking That Drives Impact
Stratevolve’s thought leadership offers fresh perspectives and robust frameworks to help leaders tackle today’s toughest challenges. Our content blends deep research with real-world application, equipping executives with the tools to lead with clarity, confidence, and strategic precision.
Designing The Augmented Enterprise: Agentic AI and financial institutions

As generative and agentic AI evolve beyond experimentation, a new category is emerging with strategic relevance for financial services: Agentic AI. Defined by its ability to reason, adapt and act autonomously across complex tasks, Agentic AI represents not just a technical advance — but a blueprint for reimagin

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Sharper Decisions, Smarter Research: How GenAI is transforming the investment front office

GenAI is moving from pilot projects to becoming an indispensable layer in the investment decision-making process. The frontier is no longer if firms should use GenAI — but how deeply, and where it cre

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Beyond Products: Reimagining financial services offerings for the client-centric era

The shift from fragmented financial solutions to simplified, end-to-end value propositions is no longer theoretical — its underway. Here what it means for the future of banking and markets.

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Strategic Transformation Offices: The engine room for ambitious change in financial services

As financial institutions chart bold, multi-year strategies, many are discovering that vision is not the hard part — execution is Strategic Transformation Offices (STOs) are fast emerging as the answer to bridging that critical gap between strategy and sustained, scalable impact.

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Practical Insights for Business Leaders
Stratevolve’s strategy books provide actionable insights and proven frameworks for business leaders navigating complex market environments. Our books go beyond theory, offering practical strategies for competitive advantage, strategic execution, and market intelligence.
What’s Your Competitive Advantage?
  • Master the seven value-creating strategies to build and sustain a competitive edge.
  • Understand how to navigate disruption, create value, and implement lasting change.
  • A must-read for leaders seeking practical frameworks for business transformation.
Strategy In Practice – A hands-on guide for leaders
  • Designed for senior managers and executives engaged in strategic decision-making.
  • Provides proven analytical techniques and frameworks to shape business direction.
  • Helps firms identify, debate, and execute strategic priorities with confidence.
Creating Market Insight – Unlock competitive intelligence
  • Tackles the core challenge: How do firms make sense of their market?
  • Helps businesses uncover hidden insights that drive strategic advantage.
  • Equips leaders with practical tools to turn market data into actionable strategies.
The Essence Of Competitive Strategy
  • Focuses on business unit-level strategy for sustained market success.
  • Answers critical strategic questions:
    • Where should we compete?
    • What products should we offer?
    • How do we establish a long-term competitive edge?
Designing World-Class Corporate Strategies
  • Examines the role of corporate centres in multi-business organizations.
  • Provides insights on corporate governance, structure, and value creation.
  • Essential for business leaders looking to optimize corporate strategy for long-term success.
Research-Driven Insights for Business Leaders
Stratevolve’s strategy papers are regularly published in leading strategy and management journals, offering in-depth insights into corporate strategy, competitive advantage, and organizational transformation. These papers distill decades of research and consulting expertise into actionable ideas that leaders can apply to real-world business challenges. Our research is designed to inform and guide strategic decision-making.
Building The Experimenting Organisation – Adapting through continuous experimentation

In a world of constant change, traditional business structures often struggle to adapt. This paper advocates for a fundamental shift: turning your organisation into a dynamic ecosystem that thrives on small-scale experimentation. By encouraging low-risk trials across the business, companies can generate critical learning, foster innovation, and build a culture of continuous adaptation.

Rather than relying on top-down decisions based on simplified models, the paper proposes empowering teams to "learn by doing". This experimental approach counters organisational inertia and enables responsive evolution in complex environments.

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Strategy Diagnostic Workshop – A practical first step to effective strategy

Developing a strong strategy can be challenging for top teams. This paper introduces a structured diagnostic workshop designed to help leaders assess their current strategic position. By guiding teams through six core questions, the workshop aims to create alignment, clarify direction, and identify key priorities for further strategic development.

The paper proposes a practical, evidence-based approach that builds consensus and focuses on understanding what customers truly value. It serves as a vital first step in designing a strategy that is both clear and actionable.

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What Does Value Mean? – Understanding how It is created, maintained and destroyed

This paper explores how value is defined and perceived by different stakeholders—customers, suppliers, employees, and investors—and explains the importance of aligning business activities with investor interests. It distinguishes between use value and exchange value,showing how value is created by human capital, captured through transactions, and sometimes lost through inefficiency.

The paper proposes that recognising the varied roles of the firm—as both supplier and customer—is key to understanding how value flows through an organisation, and how to maximise it for long-term competitive advantage.

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How To Determine Your Future Resource Creation Processes – A diagnostic approach

This paper provides a practical framework for identifying how firms can build the resources they need for future success. It draws on the resource-based view (RBV), dynamic capabilities, and organisational configuration theory to help leaders diagnose their current assets, understand how they were created, and decide how best to develop new ones.

The paper argues that strategy is not just about planning outcomes—it is about creating the right resource creation processes, shaped by a firm’s history, environment, and unique capabilities.

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Formulating Strategy – Building future advantage from strategic assets

This paper presents a structured approach to strategy formulation based on the firms unique set of strategic assets. Grounded in resource-based theory, it guides executives through identifying which assets drive competitive advantage, how they align with market needs, and how to build on them to sustain profitability.

Rather than chasing generic goals, the paper encourages firms to focus on what makes them distinct—leveraging and developing assets that are rare, valuable, and difficult to imitate.

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Strategy In Uncertain Environments – Adapting strategy to match the unknown

This paper challenges the conventional strategy-making process, arguing that traditional analysis falls short in today’s volatile and unpredictable markets. It proposes a flexible approach where the focus shifts from fixed plans to building adaptive capabilities.

Rather than defining exact paths forward, the paper suggests organisations should invest in sensing change early, reacting swiftly, and embedding adaptability into structures, culture, and decision-making.

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