Executive Summary: The Strategy Logic Chain Applied to Cities Most competitive strategies fail from a break in the logic connecting their essential elements. Companies pursue innovation, lower costs, and moats, yet these initiatives often fail to reinforce one another. The Strategy Logic Chain addresses this disconnect through six interconnected links: Value Proposition → Consumer Behavior (& Incentives) → Capability → Economic Drivers → […]
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When business leaders discuss strategic risk, they usually focus on what is new: the startup investment, cross-border acquisition, digital transformation, or multi-billion-peso capital proposal. They ask probing questions because the future is unproven. But what about the core business that is already making money? It has paying customers, steady revenues, a long track record, and a management team that knows […]
Every strategy rests on assumptions. The problem is that once a strategy is approved, those assumptions can disappear from view. Imagine the Philippine government announces that every Filipino who reaches 101 will receive ₱1 million, with another ₱1 million for every birthday thereafter. At first glance, this may seem manageable. But how many Filipinos will reach 101? How long will […]
Most marketing plans look impressive on paper. They contain polished slide decks, ambitious revenue projections, detailed media strategies, and highly creative campaign concepts. Yet in a volatile marketplace, plans often because leadership overlooked a hidden strategic fault line. When an organization experiences declining revenue, weakening customer loyalty, inefficient sales operations, or erosion of brand trust, the visible problem is often […]
The biggest strategic risk isn’t having no marketing plan. It’s executing a polished plan built on untested assumptions. During annual planning, executive teams routinely default to copy-pasting the past: last year’s sales become the new baseline, legacy customers retain top priority, and yesterday’s winning products receive automatic budget renewals. Except the market refuses to remain frozen in time. Consumers shift […]
On August 27, 2026, I will celebrate 12 years of blogging. When I started JosiahGo.com in 2014, my objective was simple: to share what I was learning and make practical business knowledge more accessible to students, entrepreneurs, managers and business owners in the Philippines. I did not realize then that blogging would also become a record of my own reinvention. […]
Many corporate executives talk about culture, but very few can seamlessly connect deep organizational values with hard, marketing strategy. Unilab President and CEO Sebastian “Backy” Baquiran belongs to that rare breed. In fact, Backy achieved a historic milestone in the Philippine business community by becoming a rare two-time Mansmith awardee. What makes his trajectory fascinating is the order of his […]
While visiting Bangkok with some old friends, we stopped by a popular shopping mall where one of them decided to get a suit made. The proposition stopped me in my tracks: One coat. One shirt. One pant. One tie. Custom-fitted. Ready in 24 hours for roughly US$137 (Baht 4,500, or Php 8,300). My friend ended up upgrading his raw material […]
When news broke that the United States government moved to close the $800 de minimisthreshold, the tariff-free customs exemption long leveraged by Chinese cross-border platforms Shein and Temu to ship direct-to-consumer parcels via air freight, industry observers treated it as a sudden geopolitical shock. But from a strategic auditing perspective, this outcome was not a surprise. It was a structural load […]
We all know King Solomon for his wisdom. He is history’s ultimate poster child for deep strategic insight. If he were a modern CEO, he would be the visionary founder featured on every business magazine cover, the legendary entrepreneur who inherited a stable organization from his father, David, and rapidly scaled it into a golden conglomerate of unprecedented wealth, complete […]