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Strategic Planning Best Practice 12 – Planning for the Best and the Worst

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Strategic plans present the best estimate of what planners, executives, and board members believe will take place within the market environment under the most likely to occur circumstances. But what of the activity of strategic planning itself? Shouldn’t an organization also be prepared to deal with best and worst case outcomes? Or should market forces be allowed to conspire unopposed to create an outcome other than that predicted?

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Strategic Planning Best Practice 11 – One Priority List

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The cliche 'if everything is a priority, nothing is' couldn't describe a more damaging situation than when it occurs pervasively throughout an organization. All too often, organizations and their divisions, departments, and workgroups work from priority lists that have neither been reconciled nor aligned.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 22 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 3 of 3

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

Episode 22 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 3 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion:

  • identifies ten questions to explore when seeking to identify both documented and undocumented hidden performance drivers
  • recaps the key concepts presented in the hidden drivers trilogy

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 21 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 2 of 3

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

Episode 21 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 2 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion explores examples of undocumented hidden drivers and their frequent relationship to an organization’s culture and history as well as the personal ambitions of its employees.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 20 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 1 of 3

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

Episode 20 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 1 of 3 elaborates on Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers and Strategic Analysis Best Practice 3 – Identify the Hidden Drivers (Continued). This discussion:

  • identifies what hidden performance drivers are
  • examines the often unintended impact of hidden drivers on an organization
  • explores examples of documented hidden drivers

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