by Dana Baldwin | Jan 30, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant How can you compete with a low cost, low price competitor? Let’s discuss price wars: They usually don’t work! When your company is competing with a lower cost competitor, you must realize they can sell and make a...
by Dana Baldwin | Jan 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Many people, including yours truly, have written extensively on the value of increasing employee engagement. There are many good reasons to do so. Included are: Better attitudes, better involvement in the success of the company...
by Dana Baldwin | Nov 21, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Execution is the key to effective results for Strategic Planning. As Robert S. Kaplan and David P Norton, the authors of The Strategy Focused Organization put it, in the opening paragraph of the first chapter: ‘A study of...
by Dana Baldwin | Oct 17, 2014 | Competitive Strategy
M Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Do you know what your customers really value? What are they willing to pay for that you can bring to the market place? What is important to them that you can provide? Does this give you an advantage in the environment in which you...
by Dana Baldwin | Sep 8, 2014 | Strategic Planning
M Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant How many people does it take to develop a good, actionable strategy for your company? The most straightforward answer is: it depends. It depends on how big and how complex your organization is. It depends on how entrenched people...