by Denise Harrison | Apr 25, 2014 | 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 | Apr 18, 2014 | 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 | Apr 11, 2014 | 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...
by Denise Harrison | Apr 4, 2014 | Strategic Planning
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO Frustrated by losing a bid, one CEO called up his peer at the procuring company and asked, “What could we have done better?” The two firms had a long history of working together, and the CEO wanted to know what had...
by Dana Baldwin | Mar 21, 2014 | Strategic Planning
by M. Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant How many times have you decided you needed to add to your staff, decided on the technical qualifications the job required and started looking for the person to fill those requirements? How many times have you hired someone who...
by Robert Bradford | Mar 18, 2014 | Strategic Planning
This is my fourth 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 three common types of non-strategic objectives, the incremental...
