by Denise Harrison | Aug 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Denise Harrison, Executive Vice President and COO Discussions concerning waste disposal and environmental impact are showing up more frequently during strategic plan development. With disposal costs and environmental regulations increasing, companies are finding...
by Tina | Aug 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
by Margaret Lawrence Good strategic planning begins with customer focus. Knowing your market is critical, deciding which segments to pursue is a priority, but the process does not end there. To compete effectively, you need to create value for your customers in ways...
by Denise Harrison | Aug 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Denise Harrison; EVP & COO Recently I was discussing action plan progress (or lack of progress) with the action plan team. I asked the team what are the milestones for next month? What do we need to be doing in order to achieve our objective? It surprised me that...
by Robert Bradford | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
Conventional wisdom has it that sitting still is a strategic disaster – especially in high tech, but also in more mundane industries. As with many chestnuts I hear in strategic planning meetings, this one is both true and false. It’s true because the world will...
by Denise Harrison | Jul 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Denise Harrison, EVP and COO Some companies are using social media to position themselves as thought leaders in their industry; others are using it to provide information and better customer service. Other companies are perplexed at how social media can help them....
by Denise Harrison | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Old News The ability to take a CAD drawing and create a physical prototype using 3-D printing was breakthrough technology 20 years ago. Now most design engineers use this capability to speed the new product development process quickly moving from concept models to...
