Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

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. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

Energy 78

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Most people and organizations fail due to never having control over certain ingredients, improper planning and the inability to change. Failures Make the Best Case Studies – Case studies of success and failure form the basis for planning, improvement, training and other business practices.

Succession 83

Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. Corporate Governance constitutes a balance between economic and social goals and between individual and community goals. As part of strategic planning, ethics helps the organization to adapt to rapid change, regulatory changes, mergers and global competition.

Ethics 51

Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

By taking stock and planning creatively, then we can and will embody diversity. Realistically attainable goals. It means making the most of the organization that we can. It means being anything that we want to be. Diversity is not about quotas and should never be perceived as imposed punishment.

Diversity 91

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 91

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Practices for Professionals Big Picture of Business budget development budgeting business big picture business leadership business management Business Tree consultant Corporate Speaker crisis management goal setting hank moore keynote speaker marketing and sales operational risk management risk management Strategic Planning strategydriven The Big Picture (..)

Strategy 95

Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 95

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

These clichés do not belong in business dialog, in strategic planning and in corporate strategy. Business planning requires insightful thinking and language which clearly delineates what the company mission is and how it will grow.

Strategy 50

Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. Conceptualize your own personal goals. Understand conflicting societal goals. Find your own niche, do your thing.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Unfortunately, we were not taught the best methods of working with others in achieving desired goals. Questions to ask entrepreneurs: Do you have goals for the next year in writing? Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated? Do detailed action plans support each major strategy?

Entrepreneur 51

Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 51

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Setting goals that are too low. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning. The quality audit by objective outside communications counsel can also examine the production, marketing and strategic planning functions. They will conduct communications audits and strategic planning.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Advisory Services expands on StrategyDriven’s core philosophy of achieving exceptional results through organizational alignment and accountability to established goals. StrategyDriven Advisory Services provides business leaders with actionable performance improvement insights in the areas of: Strategic planning facilitation.

Operations 50

Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The concept delves more deeply than mere regulatory compliance, stretching towards a proactive approach that involves risk anticipation, scenario planning, and sound decision-making processes. It thoroughly emphasizes corporate social responsibility, adhering to ethical guidelines, and achieving strategic objectives.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

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.

Management 70

Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become “management.” This requires planning, purpose and commitment.

Mentor 50

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Plan and Benchmark. Assignments, responsibilities, functions, relationships, follow-through, accountability. Systems and Processes. Structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. Culture and Mission.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

One plans for business success through careful strategy. It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Creating organizational vision, which sets the stage for all activities, processes, accomplishments and goals. Efforts must be realistic, and all must be held accountable.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Natural disaster stages: Warning, hit, search and rescue, recovery, rebounding, analysis, flood prevention planning, learning from crisis, community development. The more we do for others, the more we feel the “potlache” of giving to others. Commit to a program of volunteering.

Crisis 62

Crisis Teamwork Marketing Commitment 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership.

Tools 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

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.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Develop action plans for accomplishing your goals and getting the right people to visit with your company at the show. Determine who you want as key prospects. Delineate other categories of visitors, and develop a strategy for maximizing your time with key prospects.

How To 50

How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Goal Inspiring. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business - Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future ! The post The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future appeared first on StrategyDriven. It will benefit all involved. All rights reserved.

Planning 62

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Every person in the company matters to its success. Every job is important, as is filling them with the best people for each job. The art and skill of being great support staff is a cornerstone of business success. From pop culture, think of the great role models that we grew up watching: Della Street was the loyal secretary to Perry Mason.

Rogers 62

Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

I was at a service counter, and the clerk was bad-mouthing the customers. “I I don’t know what their problem is,” he declared. Every one of them has a problem today.” He then pointed to others standing in line, not yet having been served. He added that “every one of them has a problem.”

Company 51

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

(link PDF) found that, beyond outdoor and survival skills, program graduates gained critical leadership skills including: effective handling of difficult circumstances, the ability to work as a member of a team, strategic planning, and how to communicate positively with diverse types of people. The stakes are very real.

Wilde 14

Wilde Leadership Teamwork Leadership Styles 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

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. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. The goal was to keep litigation from occurring, which was met. Next comes Crisis Planning. The crisis plan must be part of the bigger process, not an adjunct or afterthought.

Crisis Management 80

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Plan how to best reach each public… which avenues will be the most expedient. Professional strategic planning counsel performs an independent audit and guides the company through the process. All employees should have access to the plan, with a mechanism that allows them to contribute. Conduct focus groups.

Franchising 74

Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Non-profit organizations and the causes they promote are greatly served by enlightening the public. Public education is an important part of the charge for those organizations. The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II.

Advertising 50

Advertising Education Audience Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? There’s too much talk about planning. Technology should be addressed as a tool of the trade… the bigger issues being a cohesive plan of action and organizational vision. The status quo is perfectly acceptable. That’s life.

Budgeting 77

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. To develop better risk management behaviors, CEOs need to: List a minimum of eight ideas for new initiatives. Identify, document and plan for risks as part of developing strategic alternatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Skills CEO Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

During the years while K-Mart did not plan for change, Target and Wal-Mart did plan, change and established defined marketplace niches. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. 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. The City of New York had conducted planning for multiple contingencies.

Crisis 72

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 72

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

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. In times of crisis, business does what it should have done earlier: study, reflect, plan and manage change.

Crisis 60

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. Strategic Plan. Goals and objectives. Crisis Plan.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Employees are not empowered to make decisions or take risks. Management remains isolated or unrealistic, possessing limited leadership development and people skills. There exists an overall naivete about the marketplace, reflected by unrealistic sales policies, quotas and sales management. They have not planned strategically.

Strategy 61

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 61

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g. Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8