by Robert Bradford | Jun 28, 2019 | Competitive Strategy
An assumption I sometimes encounter is that strategic planning only yields predictable, middle of the road actions for a company. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Strategic planning sets an appropriate course for your business that maximizes growth-ability,...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 21, 2019 | Strategic Planning
I ask this question, partly, because all too often I hear people say their companies aren’t ready for strategic planning. Let’s take a look at what you need to be truly ready for strategic planning. 1. An operating business This seems like an easy one, but quite often...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 16, 2019 | Strategic Planning
Help! We don’t have time for strategic planning! I’ve heard variations of this plea dozens of times in the past few years. Clearly, some companies get into situations where the management team needs to focus on specific issues that come up – either by design...
by Robert Bradford | May 31, 2019 | Strategic Planning
We have, over the past 35 years, run thousands of strategic planning meetings and reviewed hundreds of strategic plans created by others. In that time, we’ve run into many of the challenges of strategic planning common to all companies and seen a few that you can...
by Robert Bradford | May 8, 2019 | Strategic Planning
One of the benefits of doing a huge number of strategic plans is that we get to see lots of variations. I started my work in strategic planning with a suspicion that I knew the right number of market segments to analyze. Actually developing a plan with more – or...
