by Denise Harrison | Oct 30, 2026 | 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 Robert Bradford | Oct 30, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President & CEO In over 1,600 strategic planning meetings, I have noticed that people have a tendency to approach their planning process from many different angles. One of the most interesting sets of angles revolves around the very common...
by Tom Ambler | Oct 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant Reprinted from Course & Direction May 2007 Since the millennium Eastman Kodak Co. has been under attack by a Killer App known as Digital Imaging. In the last several years it has suffered the loss of much of its historical...
by Dana Baldwin | Oct 23, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Does your company think that developing a strategic plan, printing it and distributing it to the appropriate population within your company actually completes the whole process? Or is it dedicated to actually carrying out the...
by Denise Harrison | Oct 16, 2026 | 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 Robert Bradford | Oct 16, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford Note: The following article was first published in 2008 but seems timely today. It shouldn’t be a surprise to you that going green can be an extremely useful strategy in today’s markets. Without question, our strategic planning...
by Dana Baldwin | Oct 9, 2026 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Why don’t some organizations do strategic planning? Great question, because a surprising number of companies do not actually put together a written plan of where they want to go. Why don’t they plan? There are a variety of...
by Denise Harrison | Oct 9, 2026 | 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...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 2, 2026 | Strategic Planning
This is my fifth post on bad strategic objectives. In my first post, I discussed a test to tell whether an objective you set for your organization is truly strategic. By now, I’ve also highlighted four common types of non-strategic objectives, the incremental...
by Denise Harrison | Oct 2, 2026 | 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...
by Denise Harrison | Sep 25, 2026 | 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...
by Dana Baldwin | Sep 25, 2026 | Strategic Planning
by M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant How many times have you decided you needed to add to your staff, decided on the technical qualifications the job required and started looking for the person to fill those requirements? How many times have you hired someone who...
