by Robert Bradford | Feb 20, 2015 | Strategy Implementation
By Robert W. Bradford, President and CEO Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had some interesting conversations with a client about what we do in strategic planning. You see, there are lots of approaches to strategic planning – some of which work – but we do...
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 | 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 Tom Ambler | Sep 26, 2014 | Strategic Planning, Strategy Implementation
By Thomas E. Ambler, Senior Consultant Reprinted from Compass Points January 2008 Balancing internal and external forces that fight one another and create tension is at the very heart of strategic management. One of the most familiar and least pleasurable duties of a...
