by Robert Bradford | Oct 11, 2018 | Strategic Planning
What will make strategic planning happen and keep people from getting mired in non-strategic activities? Even at the top of organizations, strategic planning seems to take a back seat. Like any other critical management activity, companies must do strategic planning...
by Dana Baldwin | Oct 4, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Finding Strategic Issues that the team must resolve to produce an actionable Strategy is key in Simplified Strategic Planning We find Strategic Issues with multiple diagnostic exercises. One is an exercise we call “Winner’s Profile”. We do it for a couple of reasons....
by Robert Bradford | Sep 6, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Is your company full of smart, passionate people, who have strong ideas about your business? Do they have trouble agreeing on a strategy and sticking to it? The problem is pretty simple: many smart people are used to being the smartest person in the room. ...
by Dana Baldwin | Jun 7, 2018 | Strategic Planning
In developing our strategic plan, we spend significant time analyzing our market segments and our competition. There are other important factors which can affect our strategies, even our ability to continue in business as usual. Most organizations will have most or...
by Tom Ambler | May 31, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Plan the Dive, Dive the Plan The mantra of scuba divers describes one of the most important guidelines for conducting a safe and successful diving trip. In spite of the enjoyment that comes from observing the exotic reef life of some Caribbean island, every dive is...
by Tom Ambler | May 23, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Strategic management: a sports analogy Imagine you are the head coach of a professional football team. You have just sent your captains onto the field to observe the coin toss for the Superbowl. Furthermore, imagine that you and the team had been enjoying...
