Brent Morrison February 4, 2021 Prophecy has its place, but not when it comes to business planning. If ongoing realistic assessments find the goals or outcomes of a plan infeasible, you’ll be left in a difficult situation if the plan has been promoted as nearly infallible. Consider a scenario in which a company stakeholder puts … Continue reading How to Stop Treating a Business Plan as Prophecy
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Rethinking your strategic planning for 2021
How to change your approach to strategic planning in this fast-moving business environment. Ryan Phelan on January 21, 2021 Somebody asked me the other day if I planned to take a trip this year. I used to travel regularly for both work and pleasure, but I spent 2020 on the ground. I answered, “I don’t … Continue reading Rethinking your strategic planning for 2021
How to Create a Value Proposition for Your Business
Daniel Hopper December 14, 2020 As a business, we need to capture the attention of potential customers as quickly as possible by telling them how we provide a solution to their needs. If customers understand exactly how our business provides them with a solution, they are more likely to become customers than if the value … Continue reading How to Create a Value Proposition for Your Business
Action Plans: The Well Structured “To-Do”
Dave Brock November 30, 2020 My life seems to be spent in one meeting after another. Reviews of all types, planning sessions, problem solving sessions, training—you name it, I go from meeting to meeting. In most of those meetings, we are trying to address some issue–how to win a deal, how to address performance issues, … Continue reading Action Plans: The Well Structured “To-Do”
The 5 Stages of a Funding Plan
Steven Imke October 12, 2020 Most businesses require some form of funding to get started. However, based on what business stage the business is at, the sources of capital will be different. This is where your funding plan comes in, to identify how the business can secure financing for each stage. A product company goes … Continue reading The 5 Stages of a Funding Plan
How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis
Jeff Previte September 23, 2020 As you are strategizing for business growth, you might realize that you need to reset and consider what your business is doing well, what you’re struggling with, what your growth opportunities are, and what obstacles stand in the way of your goals. The best way to check in with the … Continue reading How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis
Mutual Success Plans: A Collaborative Approach
Bob Apollo September 18, 2020 I’ve written before about the persuasive power of a Mutual Success Plan in technology-based B2B sales, and I believe the concept is so important that it is worth returning to it, particularly in the light of recent developments in collaboration technology. You may have come across the spiritual precursors to … Continue reading Mutual Success Plans: A Collaborative Approach
7 Tips For Designing a Successful Corporate Wellness Plan
Barasha Medhi September 15, 2020 Implementing the right corporate wellness plan is an important pre-requisite that’ll hugely impact the overall wellness of your company. The right wellness plan will boost long term health by improving employee morale, productivity, and performance. Meanwhile, a subpar health plan will inspire false hope for the short term but fail … Continue reading 7 Tips For Designing a Successful Corporate Wellness Plan
Business Strategy Planning: Is Strategy Relevant in the Absence of Leadership?
Tasneem Sachee August 25, 2020 It has been said that strategy is destiny. Robert Burgelman’s book notes that, “successful and unsuccessful strategies shape a company’s destiny. But if strategy shapes destiny, destiny has ways of asserting itself and constraining strategy.” With COVID-19 many organizations and businesses have had to rethink and re-imagine their business strategy … Continue reading Business Strategy Planning: Is Strategy Relevant in the Absence of Leadership?
Adapt or Fall: Why Darwin’s Ideas Still Matter to Modern Businesses
Jeff Greenstein June 18, 2020 Today the commonly accepted conclusion of Charles Darwin’s seminal work, The Origin of Species, is that the bedrock of evolution is “survival of the fittest.” In actuality, this interpretation represents a morphing of what Darwin proclaimed centuries earlier. His key theory was that evolution favored the survival of the most … Continue reading Adapt or Fall: Why Darwin’s Ideas Still Matter to Modern Businesses
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