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...
