Steve Diasio

The Strategy Studio Field Guide with Dr. Steve Diasio

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The Strategy Studio Field Guide is a dynamic course podcast that helps students move from textbook concepts to real strategic practice. Each episode connects weekly content to the live project, guiding teams through research, diagnosis, formulation, critique, prototyping, implementation, and final pitching. Using short field-guide episodes, milestone dispatches, and guest/client conversations, the podcast turns strategic management into an engaging, career-building studio experience students can carry with them between classes, team meetings, and presentations. It keeps the studio moving now.

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Steve Diasio

Episodes

Why External Forces Dictate Strategic Success | Strategic Management Studio 20.06.2026 20:44

Welcome to the Strategic Management Studio! In today's turbulent, complex, and hyper-connected global economy, no organization—whether it's a massive Fortune 500 company or your dorm-room digital startup—succeeds by accident. In Episode 3 of our series, your host (a former executive and real-world strategy expert) breaks down The External Environment . We are leaving the theoretical boardr...

From Assumptions to Evidence - Your First Idea Is Probably a Guess 12.06.2026 19:01

Welcome to Episode 2 of The Strategy Studio Field Guide , where we begin one of the most important shifts in strategic management: moving from what we think is happening to what the evidence actually shows. In this episode, Dr. Steve Diasio introduces students to the research foundation of the Strategy Studio. Before teams jump into solutions, campaigns, apps, events, recommendations, or beautiful...

Welcome to the Strategy Studio: This Is Not a Normal Class 12.06.2026 21:31

Episode 1 introduces students to the mindset, rhythm, and expectations of Strategic Management Studio. The course is not built around passive listening or memorizing definitions. It is a working studio where students practice strategy through a real-world organizational challenge. Students will use strategic management tools to investigate a problem, analyze an organization and its environment, id...