by Denise Harrison | Jun 13, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President & COO Reprinted from Course and Direction March 2007 Is strategic planning dead? Many so-called experts criticize the time spent on evaluating the core businesses and current competition as myopic. They point out that...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 6, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Robert W. Bradford, President & CEO In over 1,600 strategic planning meetings, I have noticed that people have a tendency to approach their planning process from many different angles. One of the most interesting sets of angles revolves around the very common...
by Dana Baldwin | May 23, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Does your company think that developing a strategic plan, printing it and distributing it to the appropriate population within your company actually completes the whole process? Or is it dedicated to actually carrying out the...
by Denise Harrison | May 16, 2014 | 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 | May 9, 2014 | 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 | May 2, 2014 | 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...
