Denise Harrison | Center for Simplified Strategic Planning

When Is It Strategic to Say No to New Business? When can higher volume lead to lower long-term profitability?

by Denise Harrison | Apr 11, 2014 | 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...

Customer relationships: What does this concept have to do with strategy?

by Denise Harrison | Apr 4, 2014 | 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...

Know When to Hold ’em and When to Fold ’em – Knowing when to get out of a core business is key to being successful in the future.

by Denise Harrison | Feb 21, 2014 | 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...

Are you frustrated by the lack of results in your strategic planning efforts?

by Denise Harrison | Feb 13, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Uncategorized

We are interested in your thoughts: Why doesn’t your strategic planning process work? – please take our confidential survey by clicking on: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9RHF6PS Many CEOs would like to make their strategic planning process more effective...

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