by Denise Harrison | Jul 31, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison In their well-researched book, entitled The Price Advantage the authors (Baker, Marn, and Zawada) use the following statistics to highlight the importance of pricing: Operating Profit Improvement Per 1% Improvement in: A 1% increase in price...
by Denise Harrison | Jul 25, 2014 | Strategic Planning
by Denise Harrison Reprinted from October 2006 During the course of strategic planning your company will look at threats — outside forces that can severely impact your company’s success. Often the analysis of threats includes looking at how you mitigate...
by Denise Harrison | Jun 13, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President & COO Reprinted from Course and Direction March 2007 Is strategic planning dead? Many so-called experts criticize the time spent on evaluating the core businesses and current competition as myopic. They point out that...
by Denise Harrison | May 16, 2014 | 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 | Apr 25, 2014 | 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...
