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...
by Robert Bradford | Sep 13, 2020 | Strategic Thinking, Uncategorized
You’ve seen it happen, perhaps dozens of times: A company makes some choice that looks good on paper, but leads to major strategic problems. No one is immune to this problem, because good strategic thinking is hard. Why is this? And how can we make strategic...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 23, 2020 | Strategic Thinking, Strategy Implementation, Uncategorized
One of the great challenges in executing a strategic plan is getting the team to perform and be motivated by the strategy. Indeed, strategic performance in implementation is the achilles heel of strategic planning. It’s common to hear people say “We did...
by Robert Bradford | Aug 2, 2020 | Strategic Thinking, Uncategorized
We can improve our predictions in strategic planning by predicting with leading indicators. You may have hear of the Composite Leading Indicators, a statistic used by the Federal Reserve to predict recessions. This tool is a good way to anticipate changes in a...
by Robert Bradford | Jul 26, 2020 | Strategic Thinking, Uncategorized
One of the things we cannot avoid in strategic thinking is making predictions. While predictions, being assumptions, inevitably carry the risk of error, there are things we can do to make better predictions. When you can match an understanding of future trends with...
