For Those Who Love Strategy As Much As We Do
In response to the great input from our valued clients, team members and professional colleagues, today we are unveiling our third major redesign in our seven years of existence. Our team worked with our friends at Mesh Creative and Delge to help make it possible, and we are excited to roll out these exciting changes. [...]
It is a fact that although a majority of executives recognize the importance of customer feedback, only a handful of those very companies have a program in place. There’s a bunch of ways to conduct customer assessments, but we like the insight of the Net Promoter Score concept developed by Fred Reichheld in 2003 that [...]
What is your personal strategic plan? The new year brings a fresh start, new resolutions, and new beginnings. Lately on Twitter people have been buzzing about what their personal strategic plan means to them. We all do some type of planning in our lives and at work, but how do we take it to the next [...]
There is a buzz surrounding the value of strategic plans, mostly set off by a Wall Street Journal article that ran this month. While the article raised valid concerns, it did so from an archaic point of view in our opinion. It was all about how strategic plans are too rigid to be useful in [...]
How Organizations Can Keep Their Planning Momentum Finishing up this first week of February marks a time when most companies are just tying up their corporate retreats and strategic planning for the upcoming years. These last few weeks on Twitter it seems as if everyone is coming or going from their organization’s retreat where they [...]
The Wall Street Journal published an article last week titled “Strategic Plans Lose Favor.” Our commentary about the article’s main point – that CEO’s want strategic plans to help them make decisions, not to be static – is below. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Being Strategic is a process, not rigid set of parameters that [...]
Have Strategic Plans Lost Favor? As I have been sitting and watching Twitter this week it was almost impossible not to notice all the buzz about the Wall Street Journal Article, “Strategic Plans Lose Favor.” Some very interesting articles & discussions have sprouted out of this article. LinkedIn Responded in a Tweet: “WSJ says ’strategic plans [...]
As hundreds of thousands of organizations are finishing up their strategic planning retreats or offsite meetings this month, more than 70 percent will not take concrete action from those flip charts, sticky notes and whiteboards. Consider the huge cost of labor hours from people sitting in a day or multi-day meeting, only to have that [...]
Harvard Business Publishing recently posted the results of an employee survey to their Daily Stat blog, claiming that employees are more appreciative and enthusiastic about their jobs than a year ago. From 2008 to 2009:
Employees who take pride in their jobs rose from 71% to 79% Those who recommend their employer rose from 53% to 58%
Since [...]
Have a nagging problem with executing your strategy? Feeling Stuck, or just need a boost? Everyone needs help sometimes, and we get that. Well, how does an hour with a set of strategy experts sound? If you want to get answers for your strategic questions, you need to sign up for MyStrategicPlan’s Strategy Huddle! Each month, the [...]
We have recently taken on a new client at M3 Planning, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). We took part in a nationwide call this morning to conduct a forum style discussion on the new approach that the BSA is taking as they come up on their 100th anniversary. The BSA and M3 Planning have [...]
For everyone who wishes they had their very own strategic planning expert whose brain they could personally pick in order to get unstuck, we’ve got a solution for you! Once a month, the M3 Planning team will be conducting a strategy huddle- where we’ll answer real questions that our audience has been facing. All of the [...]
Need some inspiration? In the world of Business Management, few minds stand out like that of Jim Collins, author of the classics Good to Great, Built to Last, and most recently How the Mighty Fall. Through the years, countless business people, organization members, students and folks from all walks of life have sought to learn [...]
We recently stumbled upon a great resource for managers and business people of all levels- over at Fast Company’s website they’ve got a great section called the “30 Second MBA.” With all of our busy schedules, getting management advice in under a minute sounds great! The “classes” are short videos that cover the same subject each [...]
With stories of budget cuts (both in the public and private sectors) filling the business news, it has become a reality in the recession that in order to plan for the future, agencies and organizations must work with less resources. But how do you plan on a tight budget? Below, we’ve got some things for [...]
So, you have a problem you need to solve in your business. You know what you need, but you don’t seem to have the resources to take care of it. What do you do?
Do you complain to upper management? Do you pressure your people to do the impossible? Do you give up?
Presented with a real-life, high-pressure crisis, [...]
Planning for the recession to be over? Good. For most companies, that means decisions involving being able to meet increased demand, taking advantage of new opportunities, even renegotiating contracts with vendors or suppliers. But, what if you lose a bunch of your employees? Wait, losing employees? Aren’t they happy they even have jobs in an economy like [...]
These days, things change fast. With a global economic crisis raging, the world has become less stable, less predictable than it once was. New opportunities and threats raise their heads daily, and companies who can identify them and respond the quickest are reaping the benefits. Because of this, we’re seeing the word “agile” used more and [...]
With budgets tight, not everyone can afford to have a week-long strategy retreat in the mountains. If a facilitator is outside of your means, and you can’t have your people missing a ton of time to conduct your strategy session this year, consider having a one-day DIY strategy session. Lock the doors. Turn off the phones. [...]
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