Are Assumptions Placing Your Strategic Plan At Risk?
Managing Assumptions, Risks and Impediments In Strategic PlanningHow sound are your organization's underlying business assumptions your strategy and strategic plan are based upon?While no one likes the...
View ArticleWhy Strategic Planning Is Hot: 4 Resulting Enterprise Building Blocks
Success Is PlannedStrategic planning helps bring clarity to an otherwise cloudy business vision. The very process of strategic planning helps identify market trends and customer preferences, then...
View ArticleGrowth Looks Good On Paper, Just Know The Strategic Implications
While many businesses are content to see slow organic growth occur in their organization, others are pushed and prodded by impatient investors or parent companies to achieve aggressive year-over-year...
View ArticleAligning The Mechanisms Of Strategy: Eight Checkpoints
Corporate strategy and crisp execution are top of mind with business leaders. Businesses operate on models designed for value creation that are in alignment with their competencies, capabilities and...
View ArticleIntegrating Strategy | A Six-step Process For Strategic Planning and Execution
Integrating Strategy: "No Nonsense" Advice From Method FrameworksBusiness success hinges on the extent to which organizations are positioned to form a strategic vision, set the correct priorities and...
View ArticleSaving The Business World From Bad Strategic Planning
... Spilling The Secrets: Round 2 There are magnificent strategy success stories that can serve as valuable models to those astute enough to learn from the approaches taken by organizations with...
View ArticleSpilling the Secrets of Strategic Planning: Round 1
The strategic planning process should successfully define corporate strategy, align operational planning tactics and set the framework in place to manage execution of plan goals. Sounds simple enough,...
View ArticleStrategizing Your Way Out Of A Threatened Business Model
Why is it that successful companies find themselves needing to reinvent their business models over and over in order to survive? Sometimes technological shifts drive companies downward in the...
View ArticleCulture & Business Performance: What’s the relationship?
Why is it that culture seems to be linked to the good, the bad and the ugly in today’s business world? Perhaps the answer can be found in the mounting data suggesting that organizations with strong...
View ArticleWhat Were They Thinking? Avoiding Corporate Strategy Disasters
Corporate strategies will never be perfect or foolproof, but there is no reason why strategy train wrecks like the one that occurred at JCPenney need ever happen. Strategies can be dramatically...
View ArticleStrategy Formulation: A Leader’s Role In Setting The Corporate Agenda
Corporate strategy provides the vision and direction organizations need in order to fulfill their missions. Strategic plans must then layout the corporate agenda for accomplishing that strategy....
View ArticleImplementing Your Strategic Plan: Merging Strategy and Execution
We publish numerous articles on corporate strategy and execution that are based on decades of consulting experience and research in hopes that business leaders can learn from what other organizations...
View ArticleCorporate Strategy and Sales Operations: Starting the Machine
Across the planet and down to the very last business on earth, all of them share the common challenge of making sales occur in a repeatable and predictable manner. Whether executives work in a start-up...
View ArticleThreading The Needle: Sewing Corporate Strategy Together With Operations
During countless conversations we have with executives, they discuss the biggest strategic planning challenge they face within their environments - that of strategy execution. Aligning corporate...
View ArticleStrategy and Execution: Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming...
Strategic threats are emerging more quickly and in increased numbers than at any time in our history. There is a reason for that. We operate business in an interconnected global economy and marketplace...
View ArticleStrategy and Execution: Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming...
In Part-1 of this article series, we discussed the trend of organizations gradually adapting to increasingly effectivestrategic planning and strategy execution methods that allow them flexibility to...
View ArticleStrategy and Execution: Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming...
Organizations are gradually adapting to increasingly effective strategic planning and strategy execution methods that allow them flexibility to quickly adjust tactics in today’s more challenging and...
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