by Denise Harrison | Oct 7, 2016 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant Apple is world renowned for its innovative product introductions – but as you look back over history, there have been plenty of flops to go along with the successes. Think about Ping and Rokr – oops, you missed these? Most...
by Tom Ambler | Sep 30, 2016 | Strategic Planning
By Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant Note: This article is part of a series taken from Thomas E. Ambler’s article The Strategic Value of Values originally published in Compass Points in April 2002. In Part One, we introduced the series. In this post we will...
by Dana Baldwin | Sep 19, 2016 | Strategic Planning
By M Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Very recently we heard that Nike, Inc. signed a long term agreement with Apollo Global Management, a private investment group, to establish manufacturing in the United States as well as complete logistics operations. The goal of...
by Tom Ambler | Sep 16, 2016 | Strategic Planning
By Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant Note: This article is part of a series taken from Thomas E. Ambler’s article The Strategic Value of Values originally published in Compass Points in April 2002. In Part One, we will introduce the series. Daily our...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 9, 2016 | Competitive Strategy
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO One of the things we strive for in our strategies is good differentiation. As a key dimension in strategic competency (the other is value to the customer), differentiation is what makes both specialty and commodity strategies...
by Tom Ambler | Sep 2, 2016 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation
Note: This article was originally printed in Compass Points November 2006 By Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant No one knows better than you that your markets are not what they used to be. They are undergoing an accelerating shift on what and where customers place...
by Dana Baldwin | Aug 26, 2016 | Strategic Planning
Note: This article was first published in Compass Points in May 2005 Dana Baldwin reviews: Marketing as Strategy Understanding the CEO’s Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation By: Nirmalya Kumar Foreword by Philip Kotler Harvard Business School Press, 2004,...
by Denise Harrison | Aug 19, 2016 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison One CEO complained that his financial person was preventing his company from growing. How was that possible? Over the years when issues arose, the financial person would develop a system of checks and balances that would prevent the issue from...
by Denise Harrison | Aug 12, 2016 | Competitive Strategy
By Denise Harrison Note: This article is part of a series taken from Denise Harrison’s article March to a Different Drummer originally published in Compass Points in August 2002. Although this article was written in 2002, this discussion is timeless. In Part...
by Dana Baldwin | Aug 5, 2016 | Strategic Planning
M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant In Strategic Planning, teams make decisions based on data and on the best knowledge of the planning team and organization. Unfortunately, well-intentioned plans can result in incurring unintended results. While analyzing what could...
by Denise Harrison | Jul 29, 2016 | Competitive Strategy
Denise Harrison Note: This article is part of a series taken from Denise Harrison’s article March to a Different Drummer originally published in Compass Points in August 2002. Although this article was written in 2002, this discussion is timeless. In Part...
by Denise Harrison | Jul 22, 2016 | Competitive Strategy
Denise Harrison Note: This article is part of a series taken from Denise Harrison’s article March to a Different Drummer originally published in Compass Points in August 2002. Although this article was written in 2002, this discussion is timeless. In Part...
