by Denise Harrison | Feb 6, 2015 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation, Uncategorized
By Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant Many people return from a strategic planning retreat frustrated, often asking: Were we really concentrating on what is important or were we focusing on what was “top of mind”? Did we make the right decisions or were we...
by Dana Baldwin | Jan 30, 2015 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant How can you compete with a low cost, low price competitor? Let’s discuss price wars: They usually don’t work! When your company is competing with a lower cost competitor, you must realize they can sell and make a...
by Robert Bradford | Jan 16, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Note: This article was previously posted in Course and Direction. People make a lot of the SWOT analysis in strategic planning. As a rudimentary approach to thinking about strategy, the SWOT works pretty well. Decades of experience has shown us that great...
by Robert Bradford | Dec 5, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO One of the most vexing issues encountered in strategic planning is a focus on the negative, especially threats and weaknesses. Obviously, we’d all like to avoid having weaknesses, but let’s face the truth: no...
by Dana Baldwin | Nov 21, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Execution is the key to effective results for Strategic Planning. As Robert S. Kaplan and David P Norton, the authors of The Strategy Focused Organization put it, in the opening paragraph of the first chapter: ‘A study of...
by Denise Harrison | Nov 7, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Senior Consultant Sony exemplifies how a company must continually refocus its resources in order to optimize its future potential. An earlier article: Know When to Hold ‘em and When to Fold ‘em – Knowing when to get out of a core business is key to...
