Alain Dehaze Quotes

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.

When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent oneself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead in times of rapid change and rid ourselves of stickiness in any form in the business.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Redesigning a strategy is an excellent way to avoid implementing the strategy.

Major organizational changes create uncertainty. But the point is to move quickly - faster than you are comfortable - because in hindsight, you will always wish you had made changes even sooner.

When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

In information technology, money is not the issue. Willingness to implement and execute is the issue.

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.