Torpedo # 1 – Short Term High Frequency Trading noise
Companies listed in various exchanges and need to publish the quarterly reports to statutory authorities.
This means there is a financial review of Organization by stake holders, shareholders on quarterly basis. This leads to capitalism now becoming more short term.
This is a classic phenomenon of short term high frequency business torpedo leading to creating the business distraction from the business drivers.
On the other hand the CEO and senior management team of organization need to take the strategic business direction, create business plans, plan capital and operational expense planning and other strategic directions with timelines which are much beyond the quarterly torpedo frequencies.
To make the organization more resilient to such torpedoes, CEO’s and senior management need help in terms of marketing intelligence, CEO advisory and some sort of sounding board ….
Does your organization have one?