Kim has several roles. At London Business School, he has taught Strategic Management on MBA and Executive programs at since 1990. He has also developed powerful frameworks for strategy analysis and strategic management that go beyond the simple, static tools that are more commonly used. Known as ‘Strategy Dynamics’, this method focuses on improvements to the time-path of business performance that is so crucial to the concerns of investors and other stakeholders. The method also provides a sound basis for strategy development in public-service and non-commercial organisations.
As an author, Kim’s first book was ‘Competitive Strategy Dynamics’ Wiley: July 2002 [Winner of the 2005 Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society]. This has now been superseded by ‘Strategic Management Dynamics’, 2007, also from Wiley. With Christina Spencer, he has also developed a wide variety of simulation-based learning materials that communicate a rigorous, fact-based approach to managing Strategy through time. His course on Strategy Dynamics, and many of the learning materials that support it, have been adopted by a large number of international Business Schools.
He also founded the training and coaching business, Strategy Dynamics Solutions, dedicated to providing professional strategy skills to executives and consultants at all levels. Collaborations with leading consulting firms are extending the application of Strategy Dynamics principles, notably in corporate strategy, equity analysis, technological disruption and due-diligence for M&A and private equity deals. Consulting relationships enhance and develop the approach, recent examples including Microsoft Inc, Visa International, BT plc, Barclays Bank, PWC and Deloitte, as well as public sector and voluntary organisations.
Kim has an engineering background, an MBA and PhD from the London Business School. His early career was spent in the oil and petrochemicals industry. He was later retail strategy director for the retailing group, Whitbread PLC during the group’s growth and domination of several leisure sectors