Insights
CSO Perspectives
Insights from Outthinker Networks Executives
Overview
Considering perspectives and learning from Chief Strategy Officers from other industries can significantly benefit a CSO in performing their own duties.
Engaging with CSOs from different sectors provides a fresh outlook on strategic challenges and opportunities. By exchanging ideas and experiences, CSOs can gain insights into innovative approaches, emerging trends, and best practices that may be applicable to their own industry.
This cross-industry learning fosters creativity, promotes out-of-the-box thinking, and enables CSOs to identify potential solutions to their organization’s unique challenges. It also helps in avoiding industry-specific biases and opens up new avenues for collaboration and partnership across sectors, driving overall growth and success.
Below you will find insights and perspectives shared by world class strategy executives from the Outthinker Network.
Insights from Chief Strategy Officers and Executives
M&A Masterminds: Making Deals That Deliver
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Outthinker 2025 Macroeconomic Outlook
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Trends on Chief Strategy Officers’ Radar for 2025
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A Chief Strategy Officer’s Roadmap to Board Service
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Rethinking Supply Chain Resilience: Insights for Strategists
Explore the strategic implications of generative AI for enterprises. Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer of ISG, offers his perspective on scaling AI.
Making Strategic AI Investments
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Building Purpose: How Grupo Bancolombia Found Its Strategy for Impact
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Leading in a Polarized World: Insights from Outthinker Networks’ Roundtable with Oxford’s Karthik Ramanna
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The Strategy Office: Insights from a Chief Strategy Officer
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Outthinker Networks Dallas Summit Key Takeaways
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Setting Up Your Strategy Office
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Designing and Operating an Effective Strategy Office
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Mastering Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons from Two Chief Strategy Officers
Explore the strategic implications of generative AI for enterprises. Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer of ISG, offers his perspective on scaling AI.
How to Integrate Sustainability into Corporate Strategy
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Avoiding AI Missteps: Strategic Guidance for Executives
Explore the strategic implications of generative AI for enterprises. Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer of ISG, offers his perspective on scaling AI.
The Strategy Office as a Talent Incubator: Lessons from Southern Glazer’s
Discover the unique roles of Southern Glazer’s strategy office, including developing top talent and serving as an internal consulting arm for the organization.
Macroeconomic Insights and CSO Career Paths: Outthinker Networks’ Strategy Roundtable in New York
For many businesses today, the opportunity of joining or building an ecosystem of alliances is important to holistic success.
Strategy in Growth-Stage Organizations
On the Chief Strategy Officer Podcast, three strategy executives discuss navigating the strategic journeys for their growth-stage organizations – Elisabeth Moore from West Monroe Partners, Adam Zalisk from Amplify Education, and Edward Crook from DeepL.
Beyond the Hype: Embracing the Poetry and Plumbing of AI
Explore the strategic implications of generative AI for enterprises. Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer of ISG, offers his perspective on scaling AI.
How to Recruit and Build a Diverse Strategy Team
As much as companies promise and commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, corporate strategy remains a male-dominated and less-than-diverse field, especially at the
Five Ways to Measure Organizational Culture
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Pioneering Inclusive Finance through Technology
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What Improv Comedy Can Teach Business Leaders
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Innovation DNA: How Legacy Companies Can Think Like Startups
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Advice from a Chief Strategy Officer: Turn Chaos into Clarity
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Cultivate An Innovation Mindset Across Your Company
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Simplify Your Strategy with Unifi Aviation
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How to Align Innovation Objectives in Matrixed Organizations
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4 Steps to Turning Leadership Change into Opportunity
For many businesses today, the opportunity of joining or building an ecosystem of alliances is important to holistic success.
Establishing Alignment Between Distributed Businesses
Outthinker Networks chief strategy officers discuss how to align strategy among decentralized business units.
Maximizing the Benefits of Data & Tech Investments
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Chief Strategists Discuss Organizing Sales Teams at Scale
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How to Establish a Results-Driven Culture
How to establish a results-driven culture, based on recommendations from strategy and innovation executives.
Designing the Modern Strategy Office
How to design your strategy office, based on recommendations from 7 chief strategy officers.
How Can Today’s Strategy Leaders Define Tomorrow’s Business Models?
Companies that find and exploit new business models reap tremendous rewards. How can strategy officers anticipate future business models?
4 Steps for Developing a Corporate Sustainability Strategy
4 steps for developing a corporate sustainability strategy, based on recommendations from chief strategy officers.
Top 10 Trends for Today’s Business Strategists
A common misconception is that what blindsides companies is the trend that takes hold faster than experts expect.
10 Questions Strategy Officers Asked a Foremost Futurist
Earlier this month, The Outthinker Strategy Network hosted futurist Faith Popcorn as a roundtable guest. Faith joined our community of chief strategy officers and executives
The Future of Work: Moving Beyond Metrics Toward Real Reform
Last month, we introduced our 2021 Business Trends report based on in-depth conversations with top CSOs in our Outthinker Strategy Network. We will be expanding on one
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