5 Tips for Successful Strategic Planning

When the end of the year approaches, business leaders everywhere think about strategic planning—looking back at this year’s performance and determining how to make the next year just as (and hopefully more) successful. For many, a new year signifies not only a fresh...

Where Should You Focus In 2016?

  A Competitive Advantage Exercise: When planning strategy options for next year, consider that at a basic level, every company’s market differentiation focuses on one of three areas—customer service, operational effectiveness and technology/innovation. History...

10 Tips To Strategy: Make Your OGSM Work

Strategy sessions, annual operating plans—planning the business is in our corporate DNA. All of us have done them and sometimes, they’ve actually achieved what we wanted them to achieve. As business leaders, our hope is not that our strategy plans are internally...