Strategic Planning: A Process to Success
Did you know that October is International Strategic Planning Month? Not a widely celebrated event—I doubt even Hallmark has cards to mark this momentous occasion. However, it is the time…
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Employing a Facilitator — Empowering Your Business
Hiring a facilitator – or consultant or strategist or planner – can be a daunting experience. First, you have to know what want to accomplish. Do you believe your business is…
Read moreBusiness Strategy Consulting Is Critical For Small Business
Too often, organizations that need business strategy consulting are the same ones that would never think of hiring a third party to help them. Huge corporations use business strategy consultants to assist with a…
Read moreA Bridge to Success
Suspension bridges provide an excellent graphical representation of six characteristics common to successful organizations whether they are for-profit businesses, charitable entities or membership organizations. For centuries, people have built suspension…
Read moreWhat Businesses Can Learn From Baseball
It’s that time of year again – baseball fever! Sidebar: Congratulations to the USA Women FIFA World Cup Soccer team; what an amazing group of competitors…warriors really. The stories of how…
Read moreMediocrity vs. Excellence
Dictionary.com defines success as 1.”the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; and 2.”the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.” As a business strategy consultant, I work…
Read moreCreating the Future With Why
We do business strategy consulting. But what keeps us going client after client is the why we do it. As a group, we enjoy teaching executive leadership and their companies…
Read moreLanguage is a Strategy
Today, I had the good fortune of meeting with a colleague who uses an approach to business strategy consulting very similar to my own. It was fun to compare war…
Read moreTips for a Requirements Analysis (Part II)
This is part two of Tips for a Requirement Analysis. In this article, I am addressing the people component of your system implementation. Remember, these tips can be used for…
Read more7 Question Check Up For Your Business Strategy
I was listening to a news broadcast this morning about the importance of getting an annual physical exam. The doctor discussed the need to check the routine stuff, adult vaccinations,…
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