by Robert Bradford | Sep 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
This is the second in a series of three articles about ways you can do your strategic planning faster. The first article discussed limiting the number of market segments you analyze to reduce the time needed for planning. Today, we will examine limiting the size of...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why should you want to do strategic planning faster? Simply put, the time spent planning is time taken away from other activities. In addition, if you use a facilitator or consultant, a shorter engagement will cost you less. Some companies skip planning entirely to...
by Robert Bradford | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sometimes executives I work with overlook culture as an important strategic building block of success. It may be that they see it as nonsense, and it may be they don’t see any return on the long and sometimes patient investment required to see results. But culture...
by Robert Bradford | Feb 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
In my last post, I discussed the issues around information that people encounter in their strategic planning. This week, I’ll be discussing how people can run into strategic planning trouble with buy-in. Buy-in Buy-in is a way of describing the emotional attachment...
by Robert Bradford | Feb 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Most people I encounter in business tell me they do strategic planning. When they describe their process, however, I can quickly identify key issues they will have with their planning and how to address it with a few key questions (or thought processes). Let me share...
by Robert Bradford | Oct 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, I reviewed the pros and cons of our new monthly schedule for strategic planning. If you’ve been using Simplified Strategic Planning, you might find the new strategic planning schedule useful. Month 1 – Situation Analysis In the first meeting, as with our...