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Strategy is a plan. A well-founded situation analysis is part of this plan. But how do you do a precise situation analysis? What exactly is behind it and how can it benefit your company? And how much time should you plan for it?

In this episode, we provide answers to these questions and go into detail about the six points of the situation analysis, so that by the end you will know how to proceed and how it can bring clarity to your business strategy.

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Christian Underwood on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianunderwood/
Prof. Jürgen Weigand on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j%C3%BCrgen-weigand/
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This episode is our first live episode that we recorded in Luxembourg within the framework of the Sustainable Banking Forum. Our thanks go to Daniel Theobald and Jörg Ackermann who invited us and gave us the opportunity to share our thoughts on sustainability in the banking sector.

We share our insights on how sustainability can work in institutions. Moreover, we discuss the question if banks are still in the spirit of time and what kind of challenges the banking sector has to overcome nowadays.

Learn what kind of new strategic approaches the banking sector could and should take and get...

In this post, Christian and Jürgen, as music lovers, share a beautiful story of an unprecedented strategist from the music field. It is perfect for learning from the strategy history of the past and extrapolating from it to today's everyday strategic life.

On June 09, 1915, one Lester William Polsfuss saw the light of day in Waukesha in the US state of Wisconsin. He was very interested in music from an early age. Although he grew up in modest circumstances, he had the opportunity to learn instruments. He started with the harmonica, eventually adding the banjo. But he fell in...

In this podcast, we talk to strategy makers to demystify the myth of strategy and at the same time show how you can win with strategic work in volatile times.

Success is no coincidence.
For a company to be successful in the market, it needs a sound strategy.
But who is able to develop strategies that can survive in the long term?
Which hurdles must be overcome and which turns and curves must be mastered? How can you cope with heights and how do you get back on track from a low?

We explain all this in our podcast "HIKS...