Comments on: Applying Military Strategy and Tactics to Business – Speed http://www.2-speed.com/2006/09/applying-military-strategy-and-tactics-to-business-speed/ Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management . . . and Other Stuff Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:28:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Will http://www.2-speed.com/2006/09/applying-military-strategy-and-tactics-to-business-speed/#comment-103 Will Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:48:02 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2006/09/applying-military-strategy-and-tactics-to-business-speed/#comment-103 Good point, Dave.  You can't sprint all the time.  Going back to comments made to my last post - higher liklihood of success comes from adopting *multiple* strategies.  Speed is only one.  As you point out,  It's one that should be used when the time is right for it.  I believe that a culture of speed, though, is a good internal management strategy and, in fact, can be implemented on a constant basis.  That doesn't mean that everyone is always running balls-to-the-wall, but as-fast-as-possible. Good point, Dave.  You can’t sprint all the time.  Going back to comments made to my last post – higher liklihood of success comes from adopting *multiple* strategies.  Speed is only one.  As you point out,  It’s one that should be used when the time is right for it.  I believe that a culture of speed, though, is a good internal management strategy and, in fact, can be implemented on a constant basis.  That doesn’t mean that everyone is always running balls-to-the-wall, but as-fast-as-possible.

]]> By: Dave Jilk http://www.2-speed.com/2006/09/applying-military-strategy-and-tactics-to-business-speed/#comment-104 Dave Jilk Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:47:45 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2006/09/applying-military-strategy-and-tactics-to-business-speed/#comment-104 An interesting question is "can a business move fast all the time?" <BR><BR>If you're moving fast all the time, it's more of a marathon than a sprint.  In a marathon, there isn't much to draw from if, for some reason, you need to move even faster.  And you run the risk of being out-blitzkrieged by a fresh upstart who can move even faster because he isn't tired.  It seems like there's a balancing act here. <BR><BR>Big companies (IBM and Microsoft are classic examples) take advantage of this.  They do research, patent lots of stuff, watch emerging markets carefully without entering them - i.e., they move slowly at first.  Then, when they identify a market that they think has potential, they move with lightning speed to take it over while all the existing players, who are bloodied both from fighting with each other and from running the marathon, have nothing left to fight with.  A different angle on speed. An interesting question is “can a business move fast all the time?”

If you’re moving fast all the time, it’s more of a marathon than a sprint.  In a marathon, there isn’t much to draw from if, for some reason, you need to move even faster.  And you run the risk of being out-blitzkrieged by a fresh upstart who can move even faster because he isn’t tired.  It seems like there’s a balancing act here.

Big companies (IBM and Microsoft are classic examples) take advantage of this.  They do research, patent lots of stuff, watch emerging markets carefully without entering them – i.e., they move slowly at first.  Then, when they identify a market that they think has potential, they move with lightning speed to take it over while all the existing players, who are bloodied both from fighting with each other and from running the marathon, have nothing left to fight with.  A different angle on speed.

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