by Robert Bradford | Mar 30, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President & CEO Following up our prior discussion, another set of limitations of the Balanced Scorecard includes: IIa. You are measuring things because they are easy to measure This issue reminds me of the old joke about the man looking for...
by Robert Bradford | Mar 16, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Note: This was previously published in Compass Points Some time ago, I had an interesting conversation about the Balanced Scorecard with a friend who works in a large organization. His comments reminded me of so many comments I’ve heard about Balanced...
by Robert Bradford | Feb 20, 2015 | Strategy Implementation
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with a client about what we do in strategic planning. You see, there are lots of approaches to strategic planning – some of which work – but we do...
by Robert Bradford | Jan 16, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Note: This article was previously posted in Course and Direction. People make a lot of the SWOT analysis in strategic planning. As a rudimentary approach to thinking about strategy, the SWOT works pretty well. Decades of experience has shown us that great...
by Robert Bradford | Dec 5, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO One of the most vexing issues encountered in strategic planning is a focus on the negative, especially threats and weaknesses. Obviously, we’d all like to avoid having weaknesses, but let’s face the truth: no...
