Strengths and Weaknesses – Part One

A Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies.  Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we...

Focus

By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This article was previously published in Compass Points March 2006. Why is focus so important to success in our businesses? We’ve all heard of the person who wanted to clean off his desk, and couldn’t imagine why...

Strategic Planning – Only for Corporate?

By M Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Most people know that in order to help an organization focus on its future and to build plans/strategies to improve market share, profitability and competitive stature, that a company should go through a formal, well-organized...

Competing with a Low Cost Competitor

By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This article was previously published in Compass Points in June 2007 Earlier, we discussed one way to compete with a lower cost, lower price competitor: differentiation — defined as finding a significant point of...