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Strategic Analysis Best Practice 6 – Multidiscipline Teams

Today's businesses operate in complex, multidimensional environments and often execute highly dynamic and interrelated processes. Evaluating these circumstances collectively requires a breadth and depth of knowledge not likely to be possessed by a single individual.


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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 15 – Independent Assessors

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 15 – Independent Assessors elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 4 – Independent Assessors. This discussion:

  • examines the benefits of using independent assessors
  • identifies sources of impartial evaluators
  • describes the critical characteristics independent assessors should possess to maximize their effectiveness

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 14 – The Devil’s Advocate

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 14 – The Devil’s Advocate elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 2 – advocatus diaboli, The Devil’s Advocate. This discussion:

  • defines what a Devil’s Advocate is
  • explains how the contrarian helps prevent group think
  • describes the critical qualities, responsibilities, and actions of the Devil’s Advocate

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 13 – Introduction to Strategic Analysis

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 13 – Introduction to Strategic Analysis serves as a foundation for the upcoming series of podcasts focused on the best practices associated with strategic analysis. This discussion:

  • defines what a strategic analysis is
  • describes the components of this in-depth examination of the organization and its business environment
  • identifies how strategic analysis helps an organization become more strategy driven

Strategic Analysis Best Practice 5 – The Use of Models

In today’s data rich world, it is often difficult to identify the meaningful patterns and relationships that yield information decision-makers need to set the direction of their organizations. Additionally, complex market environments create a multitude of data analysis options; preventing any one person from seeing every possibility. Deriving compelling information from this sea of data and presenting it in simplistic, understandable, and actionable manner thus becomes the challenge of every business analyst. Helping solve this dilemma is the business model.


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