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Chris Outram

Biography

Chris is a founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants. In more than 20 years of strategy consulting, he has addressed the full range of strategic issues from corporate strategy to divisional operational performance, embracing mergers & acquisitions and organisational advice. Chris has board experience on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him the experience and ability to talk on an equal level with board members of client companies.

Chris has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD (‘77) and a double first class honours from Birmingham University where he studied Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Economics. He has spent many years with leading US strategy consultancies and multinational companies.

He is the author of Making Your Strategy Work: How to Go From Paper to People.

Follow Chris on twitter: @ChrisOutram1

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Four Signs That Your Industry is Ripe for Digital Disruption

If there are ways for your firm to improve the customer experience with digitisation or use technology to reduce costs, you should move quickly or risk being disrupted by an outsider.
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10 Principles for Digital Disruption

Digital upstarts are rewriting the rules of strategy, adopting winning principles almost instinctively. Traditional incumbents and hybrids should take note.
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Four steps to creating strategy in the digital age

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Digital Has Killed the Strategic Plan

Four crucial steps to creating a business strategy fit for the digital age.
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The Conspiracy Theory of Management: Implementing Strategy from the Top Down

Nurturing a coterie of 'true believers' and expunging the confirmed ‘doubters’ is key to strategic success.
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Why the Old Paradigms of Strategy Development Are Out of Date

Most of the tools managers use to craft business strategy today were developed in the 20th century. Strategy formulation needs an update.
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Ten Pitfalls of Strategic Failure

In business, strategies fail not because they are flawed but because they are not implemented well.
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