The Complete Guide to Strategic Planning and OGSM
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Tool Tip: Utilizing costs and budget summary features
Welcome to myOGSM Tool Tips designed to help you optimize your myOGSM user experience and support the execution of your strategy. Avoid strategy-related budget issues It’s disappointing and frustrating when you’re prepared to spend resources only to discover the...
Tool Tip: Action items keep strategy on track
Action items are the tasks needed to support the initiatives and strategies defined by your organization. This information makes the work activities, owners of those activities and due dates crystal clear. View Action Items 3 Ways Big Picture. See a summary of all...
OGSM defined: Objective, Goals, Strategies, Measures
Many people don’t understand that strategy is simply aspiration. The real challenge for most is the definition, prioritization and alignment of the work required to achieve that aspiration. ArchPoint’s strategic planning methodology gives an organization the...
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If you don’t think you need a coach, think again
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” – Bill Gates After a certain number of years passes in a person’s life, they often find themselves advisors to other people in various capacities. If we are leaders, to our teams and our […]
Small change, big impact
If you were fishing and had a fish on the hook, would you ever cut the line? Probably not, but that is what my service team was doing until we realized the error in our process, and made a small change that resulted in a big impact. To explain, I ran the service business for […]
Improve communication with HBDI
Leaning into conflict
5 Examples of experiential marketing done right
Leading a change effort? Talk to your employees
Google research validates ArchPoint Team Model
Seek employee engagement, not loyalty
When people talk about loyalty in the workplace, it evokes images of a bygone era. The worker of 1950 for example, put in his (not her) eight hours a day, got a ham from the boss every Thanksgiving, could count on a promotion after hitting the 10-year mark, and a pension and party in his […]
The retail game has changed: Has your brand strategy?
Editor’s note: In May, we published an article on the in-store consumer experience, explaining the myriad of factors that come into play when a consumer enters a store and the effect those factors have on purchase decisions. Reader response to the piece prompted a lot of interesting discussion with a few of our clients and […]
Four ways to stop wasting time
Any good business leader knows policies are essential to effectively manage resources. There are policies and quotas for hiring new people, protocols and limits to making large capital investments, spending limits that vary by management level – the list goes on. But one of the scarcest and most valuable resources of organizations often goes largely […]