A Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies. Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we expect to learn by doing them? To be sure the company is headed in […]
Continue readingA Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies. Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we expect to learn by doing them? To be sure the company is headed […]
Continue readingBy M Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant One ongoing threat that might harm a company more than it helps is loss of focus. Many very good companies make a lot of money by keeping their focus on a very limited number of products or services and on the way they go to market. When Goodyear changed how […]
Continue readingA Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies. Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we expect to learn by doing them? To be sure the company is headed […]
Continue readingStrategic planning has been done many different ways. Some work, and others don’t. I’ve heard people talk about planning processes that are deeply detailed and months long, and I’ve heard of planning processes that are done in a couple of hours with post-it notes and tinker toys. My own take on strategic planning is […]
Continue readingA Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses is a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies. Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we expect to learn by doing them? To be sure the company is headed in […]
Continue readingA Fundamental Element of Strategic Planning By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Listing of a company’s strengths and weaknesses are a normal part of any attempt at strategic planning for virtually all companies. Why do we perform these analyses, and what do we expect to learn by doing them? To be sure the company is headed […]
Continue readingBy Tom Ambler, Senior Consultant Note: This article was previously published in Course and Direction in January 2006 View Commodity Industries in a Global Way Commodity industries that are highly capital intensive, have cyclic markets and high transportation costs are particularly susceptible to price fluctuations caused by unexpected supply/demand imbalances. This price variability makes investment […]
Continue readingBy Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant What would you do if you were faced with potential bankruptcy, with a product line that is over half a century old? Product line extension? Expansion into new lines of business? Sell the company? LEGO was facing this dilemma in 2001. While the first step was to return profitability to […]
Continue readingThomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant, Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc. Note: This article was previously published in Compass Points in February 2006 In a previous article I dealt with the strategic impact of the “Golden Rule” approach to business. Here I want to consider an important facet of the “Golden Rule” approach, the power of […]
Continue readingIn two prior articles we discussed the key differences between strategic planning for somewhat larger companies and the smaller companies we are concentrating on here and listed the first four tips we have developed for making Simplified Strategic Planning easier for smaller companies. In this article, we will list the remaining four tips. Push yourself […]
Continue readingRobert W. Bradford, President & CEO In the prior article we discussed the key differences between strategic planning for somewhat larger companies and the smaller companies we are concentrating on here. In this article, we list three of the eight tips we have developed for making Simplified Strategic Planning easier. Keep the team small — […]
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