Apr 12, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Research and Analysis – In this five-week article series, we are going ‘back to basics’ to examine the organisational strategic process in detail. Last week we looked at vision and mission. Research and Analysis This is the data-driven, number-crunching phase of...
Apr 3, 2018 | Strategic Planning
Strategic Process: Vision and Mission In this article series, we will be going ‘back to basics’ and examining the five different elements of the organisational strategic process. These elements – at their most basic – are vision, mission and goal setting, research and...
Jul 10, 2017 | Strategic Planning
Why do you need a strategic facilitator? Every business leadership team needs to periodically extract themselves from the everyday running of the operation and engage in some serious strategising. For most businesses, this will come in the shape of a strategic...
Jul 3, 2017 | Strategic Planning, Strategy
How to avoid change fatigue – All businesses know that ‘change is a constant’ – but where it presents an endless series of seemingly-disparate projects, fatigue can set in. Any manager who has experienced a carousel of internal change...
Jun 5, 2017 | Strategic Planning, Strategy
Strategy for Beginners – Strategy is a process just like any other process. Unfortunately this simple fact is often forgotten. All too often organisations think about strategy once or twice a year and forget about it until prompted by a senior manager. Unless...
Feb 21, 2017 | Strategic Planning
Having run 100’s of strategy workshops over the years we find a set of ‘core’ business strategies tend to come up frequently. For example; “Improve Customer Satisfaction” is a core business strategy. How do we go about improving...