article thumbnail

Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Consultants love a gap-closing program almost as much as they love a SWOT analysis. He is published widely in academic management journals and magazines, and has published three previous books on design thinking and innovation, coworking, and activity based working (ABW).

Company 348
article thumbnail

Employee empowerment and motivation are board level (strategic) issues

Chartered Management Institute

Related Content: Open Book Management – Pros and Cons, Transparency & Accountability Basic Gap Analysis Using Creativity During SWOT Analysis Can you force innovation? Early Warning. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

In his book Outsizing: Strategies To Grow Your Business, Profits, And Potential , Steve Coughran tackles these questions. Business school often teaches us to conduct SWOT analyses and determine how we can capitalize on our strengths and build on our weaknesses. Be open and willing to admit you’re human. Steve Coughran.

article thumbnail

Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

article thumbnail

Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

The $100 Startup, the website for the best-selling book of the same name, has a ton of stripped-down resources for entrepreneurs, including a super simplified business plan template. Invoiceberry Templates for Word, Open Office, Excel, or PPT. Who said a business plan has to be a long, complicated document?

article thumbnail

A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.). You might say CARVER is a SWOT analysis on steroids. In fact, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has recommended it as a preferred assessment methodology. Accessibility: how hard it would be for an adversary to access or attack the asset.

Tools 12
article thumbnail

The Top Tips for Building Team Performance

Roundtable Talk

Opening the discussion to group, depending on the players, can delay or stall the planning process. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap).

Tips 34