Entries by StrategyDriven

Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution

Market changes wait for no one. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, competitors and suppliers aggressively seek to gain a competitive advantage while government agencies and special interest groups continuously seek to further their agendas. These forces, acting together, demand an organization to be responsive and flexible to maintain its footing within the marketplace. Ongoing […]

Recommended Resource – Good to Great

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins and Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins About the Reference Written by Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and […]

Strategic Planning Best Practice 3 – Strategic Discipline

Executives seeking to focus their organization on mission achievement act with strategic discipline. By committing a significant portion their time and attention to the long-term direction of the organization, executives are more likely to recognize and properly respond to marketplace changes in a way that fully harnesses and focuses their organization’s energy on mission achievement. […]