by Robert Bradford | Nov 23, 2018 | Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking
Quantitative Approaches to Strategic Planning or Qualitative? Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a great increase in what I think of as automated strategic planning. Some heavily quantitative approaches (like balanced scorecard) can be part of a good strategic...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 14, 2018 | Strategic Thinking
Customers’ dimensions of value may be very different from ours Customers don’t look at us – or our products and services – in the same way we do. When we look at what we do, we see the effort, the difficulty, and the risk we put into everything. The sum of the...
by Robert Bradford | Feb 22, 2018 | Competitive Strategy, Strategic Thinking
Many – MANY times, when teaching Simplified Strategic Planning seminar, there will be attendees from non-profits. Many of them enjoy the seminar, take the tools from the workbook, and use them productively. Often they don’t think competitve business strategy...
by Denise Harrison | Feb 9, 2018 | Strategic Thinking
Technology and labor trends -Is your company seeing these trends? Many experienced workers are retiring from the workforce, often taking critical knowledge with them. Hiring difficulty: especially among the skilled trades. Well, your customers also face these trends –...
by Dana Baldwin | Jun 9, 2017 | Strategic Thinking
By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This post is a part of a series taken from Dana Baldwin’s article When Strategies Go Bad previously published in Compass Points in April 2004. In Part 1, we introduced the series and discussed what happened with IBM. In...
by Dana Baldwin | Jun 2, 2017 | Strategic Thinking
By Dana Baldwin, Senior Consultant Note: This post is a part of a series taken from Dana Baldwin’s article When Strategies Go Bad previously published in Compass Points in April 2004. In Part 1, we introduced the series and discussed what happened with IBM. In...
