by Robert Bradford | Jun 12, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Robert 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...
by Dana Baldwin | Jun 5, 2015 | Strategic Planning, Uncategorized
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This article was previously published in Compass Points March 2006. Why is focus so important to success in our businesses? We’ve all heard of the person who wanted to clean off his desk, and couldn’t imagine why...
by Robert Bradford | May 29, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO of Center for Simplified Strategic Planning We get questions about how to adapt our Simplified Strategic Planning model to smaller companies. The model was initially developed for companies with 50-500 employees, but has been...
by Tom Ambler | May 22, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant, CSSP, Inc. Recruiting disciplined people requires a well-tuned filtering process that determines if there is a fit of the candidate’s skill sets and passions with the job requirements of the organization and determines...
by Robert Bradford | May 15, 2015 | Competitive Strategy
Ask strategic questions Once a client was chatting with me and mentioned something about my strategic planning: I ask weird questions. Not so weird, in my mind – but my favorite questions are always strategic. Furthermore, they always lead to excellent discussions...
by Tom Ambler | May 8, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant, CSSP, Inc. In his outstanding book about great organizations, Good To Great, Jim Collins concludes, “Sustained great results depend upon building a culture full of self-disciplined people who take disciplined action,...
by Denise Harrison | May 1, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant How can we better deal with uncertainty when we develop our strategic plan? Many strategic planning teams struggle with this issue. While it is important to understand what you know as facts and what your assumptions for the...
by Robert Bradford | Apr 24, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Continuing the discussion we started in the prior posts, the third main reason why you may be disappointed in your Balanced Scorecard program is fundamental to the limitations of the scorecard itself. III. Your Balanced Scorecard isn’t driving action This...
by Dana Baldwin | Apr 17, 2015 | Strategy Implementation
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant When your team gets so busy they can’t put in the time to continue their responsibilities to execute their parts of your strategic plan, what do you do? No surprise, it is up to you to change the atmosphere in which they are...
by Robert Bradford | Apr 3, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President & CEO Last week, I was talking with someone about their insurance agent. She was absolutely thrilled at how the agent handled a recent car accident, saying “She made everything so much simpler!” It got me thinking about...
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...
