by Denise Harrison | Oct 16, 2026 | Strategic Planning
Review by Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President & COO Playing to Win is A.G. Lafley’s book on how he determined strategy when he was at the helm of P&G from 2000 to 2009 – and interestingly enough, he is back at the helm of P&G. While there is little...
by Denise Harrison | Oct 9, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO Note: The following article was first published in 2007 but is still relevant today. What? How could a low cost company in India have trouble with low cost competition from China? Welcome to global competition. Over...
by Denise Harrison | Oct 2, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President & COO As a company looks for additional growth, its strategic planning team needs to remember that not all growth is good growth. When searching for growth, a team can be lured by the siren song of a big customer or a...
by Denise Harrison | Sep 25, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO Frustrated by losing a bid, one CEO called up his peer at the procuring company and asked, “What could we have done better?” The two firms had a long history of working together, and the CEO wanted to know what had...
by Denise Harrison | Sep 11, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO Sony, the leading consumer electronics company in the 20th century, is not having success in the 21st century – many of its core businesses are hemorrhaging cash. Recently the company has taken steps to right the...
