Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

One of the by-products of being high-profile is that you get hangers-on. He wanted to introduce me to people to form “strategic partnerships.” Most mean well and want to associate with someone successful. Some are groupies, and some are outright users. The art is to discern and marginalize the weeds from your path.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

These clichés do not belong in business dialog, in strategic planning and in corporate strategy. Remain consistent with their products, services and track record. Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. Clearly defines their niche.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Productivity translates to profitability in an advantageous climate in which to function.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. Strategic planning, how-to instructions. Benefiting humanity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This is a comprehensive set of strategies, methodologies, policies, practices and programs that are integrated throughout business operations, supported and rewarded by top management. As part of strategic planning, ethics helps the organization to adapt to rapid change, regulatory changes, mergers and global competition.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Long-term investments plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. By itself, Budgeting does not constitute full-scope planning and business strategy. How well can management interpret and apply findings to the decision process? How diverse is the planning committee?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. Futurism: seeing clearly your perspectives and those of others. Futurism: an ongoing quest toward wisdom.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan Mike Brown, the founder of the Kansas City company called, The Brainzooming Group, encourages business leaders to solicit feedback from their customers when creating a strategic plan.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010 Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? One way will be to ensure our crisis management plans are in place. Toyotas and BPs woes this year have certainly put crisis management plans on the radar screen. Unfortunately, most businesses dont have a plan.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Introduce new products. These pointers are offered in order to maximize the way in which you should exhibit the product-service: * Graphically describe and show what you do. Show a maximum number of products.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. There were friendly, familiar places such as Cheers bar, Arnold’s Drive-In on “Happy Days,” the Krusty Krab on “SpongeBob Square Pants,” Dale’s Diner on “The Roy Rogers Show” and other homey places. Still other back characters bring cohesion to the enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. The ideal company could hopefully make the following answers to questions posed above, per categories on The Business Tree™, including: The business you’re in.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Finally comes Crisis Training.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Management by Objectives came into vogue in 1965 and was the prevailing leadership style until 1990. In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. Join us at our next series: check out our upcoming events by visiting our website.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. I heartily endorse that find a great mentor. I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The production was The Sound of Music , starring Carrie Underwood. I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the “alligators” is the most effective way to conduct the process. Ready… Set… Be productive. Evaluate your progress.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

However, peddling sales to some ‘foundation’ that is named after your product and which supports only one cause is not appropriate. Who is to say that a sales promotion tied directly to your products is right? I replied, “No, I’m not going to be a prop in your photo opportunity, for you to sell product.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. Product Recall, Tylenol.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 10, 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Dont Let E-mail Zap Productivity The typical at-desk employee in the workplace loses 2.1 hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, reports Basex, an IT research and consulting firm. Productivity drops. The typical employee also checks e-mail 50 times a day.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs. We make a good product… that should be enough. Organizations must educate consumers, in a pro-active way, on how to best utilize their products-services. Got to send the kid to college (or some other personal reason).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. Planning is necessary to remediate current and future problems.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. There exist two current options.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Product recalls. Crisis management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The fall line, which typically accounted for 80% of T&T’s revenue, was scheduled to go into production in two weeks. T&T’s five-year strategic plan called for expansion into the United Kingdom, France, and Spain, and the tax breaks would be helpful. The Dhaka factory had manufactured those products.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 5, 2010

ToneCheck reports that many companies also battle productivity loss triggered by misread employee email. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood."

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Positioning Mentor Mission Statement Tips 80

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2011

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

One third of our nation’s Gross National Product is spent in cleaning up mistakes. These are the high costs of neglect, non-actions and wrong actions, per categories on The Business Tree TM : Product, Core Business. The product’s former innovation and dominance has somehow missed the mark in today’s business climate.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2010

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2010

How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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