Seeing Around Corners: Can You Improve Your Strategy Execution?
Strategists cannot see around corners, but most of them will tell you that the best way to predict your organization’s future is to invent it. Innovative products and exceptional service offerings come as a bi-product of having the right business strategy and executing it well. The truth is, no business ever makes deliberate plans to fail, but inventing the future requires strategy and execution to come together and work in synchronistic harmony - and that’s where the trouble waits.
Organizational Development: Examining Business Wellness Ahead of Problems Occurring
Businesses, like other living organisms, can get sick. The afflictions come in a variety of forms, affecting culture, core values, productivity, profitability and sometimes business viability. Sometimes the ailment is more or less the equivalent of having a cold, and sometimes it is much more dangerous and threatening. The symptoms that you notice may not get you too worried, but those you are not aware of should.
The Small Business Owner’s Conundrum
In the current economic climate, small business owners understand that under-performing is not an option. Not if they want to survive, that is. They constantly face situations that call for skills or experience they may not possess on their own. Add to this the fact that small business owners often wear far too many hats and face a unique set of pressures that only they can fully appreciate.
The 2010 Twelve-step Checklist to Help You Evaluate Your Strategic Business Planning Process
Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current plan? This article should help you to objectively evaluate your own process and self-diagnosis potential issues that may exist in your organization’s current planning world. As you read this article, answer along as we ask the questions to help you honestly evaluate your current business planning process.
