Your Strategic Planning Process Checklist

The strategic planning process is a continuous process. It’s easy to get lost in that process in the midst of everyday operations. Here is an easy to follow Strategic Planning Process Checklist to keep you and your team on track.
1. Get ready and organized: Identify specific issues and choices the process should address.

Determine organizational readiness
Create […]

Having a strategy isn’t enough. Many of us know all too well that having a great strategy will never yield results if it is not properly executed. The following article by Scott Glatstein of the American Chronicle takes a look at some of the causes of a failed strategy.

Business Strategy Execution: 4 Reasons Why Your […]

Looking Back On 2006

With a New Year quickly approaching it’s time to review your organization’s progress for the 2006 year. What goals did you set for the past year and how have you progressed towards those goals? The following blog post by Julie Poland takes a look back on 2006 and forward to planning for 2007. 2006 Goal […]

‘Tis The Season…For Strategic Planning!

Planning season is in full swing! Here is a great article to help you get started:Plan, or die: Yearly business planning is vital organization toolby Rhonda Abrams
Fall is a perfect time to take stock of your
direction, set goals, and milestones for the coming year. That’s the
time when we have traditionally developed an annual plan in […]

Moving from Information to Insight

Business leaders often believe their organizations are swamped with business process information, but that information is a relative trickle…compared with the wealth of physical-world, biological, public and personal-preference data that is being made accessible by powerful technologies.
The sheer quantity of all this information is unprecedented, but so is the complexity of working with it. […]

What is the Balanced Scorecard?

The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative certainly has a lot to say about the use and value of the balanced scorecard.  One of the problems, however, is that the information can get rather detailed, and make for a rather poor quick reference. This particular site does a nice job of presenting a concise overview, and also offers […]