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...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 24, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO This article was previously published in Compass Points in July 2008 Simplified Strategic Planning was originally designed to be a process used at the business unit level. While it is an excellent approach for optimizing the...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 29, 2014 | Strategic Thinking
All organizations that are successful over long periods of time are learning organizations. This requires that the management team learns from its experience. It’s worthwhile, periodically, to take some time to reflect on both your successes and your failures,...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 15, 2014 | Competitive Strategy
These two words go together sickeningly often. Every buzz-word spouting bozo tends to refer to themselves as “inspiring strategic innovation” or “working on innovation strategy”. But these words have very specific meanings, and, when it comes to strategy, there is...
