by Robert Bradford | Jun 30, 2026 | Competitive Strategy, Strategic Thinking
Are changes in your industry right now or possible changes in the near future threatening your company? This can be a bad thing – but you might be able to turn the strategic threat into an opportunity, as well. The most strategic threats occur because something in...
by Denise Harrison | Jun 30, 2026 | Strategic Thinking
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO The location and severity of any specific natural disaster are difficult to predict – so you need to prepare for a disruption in your supply chain, given that a natural disaster could impact your business at some...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 30, 2026 | Strategic Thinking
How are industries disrupted? We have already identified the three most common causes: technology, business practices, and law. But if we want to do a good job anticipating disruption, we need to know exactly what kinds of changes are likely to lead to disruption....
by Robert Bradford | Jun 30, 2026 | Strategic Thinking
By Robert W. Bradford, President/CEO As a rule, people don’t like to change. People do change, however, and this happens for three basic reasons: Changing behavior can eliminate a major source of pain An example of this is the mass migration of airline ticket...
by Robert Bradford | Jun 29, 2026 | Strategic Thinking
Profit, many would say, is profit. But in reality, profit comes from several different sources, and the type of profit you are getting in your business can be very important in thinking about your strategy. Profit that comes from a temporary or threatened situation,...
by Robert Bradford | May 28, 2024 | Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
It’s not unusual, in strategic planning, to hear a team member say an issue is “just an operational issue”. In many cases, this may be correct – lots of operational issues don’t belong in your strategy discussions. In other cases, how your operation works can be...
