Category Archives: Strategic Planning

When you are looking for new strategic opportunities..think Blue Oceans

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Most organisations are looking for growth, innovation, a way to reduce their costs or expand their markets. Many are trapped by their history in relation to the markets and products/services they offer and need a process to think beyond their … Continue reading →

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What I like about the Balanced Scorecard for business

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

When Kaplan and Norton developed the Balanced Scorecard they were seeking to develop a broader perspective of what needs to be measured and managed to achieve success in business and also how to communicate and integrate the measures and targets … Continue reading →

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Part 2 – Growth Initiatives – traps and inhibitors

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

In my last post I talked about the elements that would be beneficial to growth initiatives and now I want to touch on those things that can hold back growth initiatives. A belief that the market you want to enter … Continue reading →

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Growth initiatives – how do we grow?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

We need to grow the business faster than “system” growth (i.e. faster than the overall industry growth rate). The Board is challenging the lack of top-line or profit growth and senior executives are scrambling to find the next big thing. … Continue reading →

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Stress testing your Strategy

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

A recent HBR article by Robert Simons discusses seven questions to stress test your strategy. There are two aspects of this that I like. The first is the use of questions as an approach to facilitate broader consideration of issues. … Continue reading →

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Seven Deadly Sins of Setting demands (or goal setting)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

During my development as a leader I was urged to set BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) and whilst this can be useful in generating new thinking (e.g. a 40% increase in revenue is not going to be achieved with a … Continue reading →

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