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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Because “uncertainty can only be reduced by committed decisions and actions,” you can choose to create a “certainty of purpose and direction.”. In a sense, strategy creates risk. Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.”

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Surveying Strategy: The Planning School

LDRLB

The planning school developed parallel to the design school. The planning school relies heavily on data from tools such as SWOT, but takes SWOT and breaks it down into formal, delineated steps. This post is the second in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy.

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. 1) Analyze your SWOT. SWOT analysis. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. How to apply the model. 14 Deming principles. 20 SME Steps.

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