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Author : Charles L. Bradford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972560564
Author : Robert W. Bradford,J. Peter Duncan,Peter Duncan,Brian Tarcy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556039995980
Future success? or future shock? Only companies that plan ahead will survive the changes in business today--and tomorrow.
Author : Erica Olsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118050569
If you’re starting a new business or planning your business’s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account. Strategic Planning For Dummies covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage — no matter what business you’re in. Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers all the basics, including: How a strategic plan is different than a business plan Establishing a step-based planning process Planning for and encouraging growth Taking a long-view of your organization Evaluating past performance Defining and refining your mission, values, and vision Sizing up your current situation Examining your industry landscape Setting your strategic priorities Planning for unknown contingencies If you’re in business, you have to plan for everything — especially if you intend your business to grow. Whether you’re planning for a small business, large conglomerate, nonprofit, or even a government agency, this book has the planning specifics you need for your organization. Step-by-step, you’ll learn how to lay the foundations for a plan, understand how your plan will affect your business, form planning teams, discover what your strengths are, see where you are, and, finally, plan where you’re going. And there’s much more: Learn to analyze business trends that will determine your business’s future Set measurable, realistic goals that you can plan for and achieve Make strategic planning a habitual part of the organization Prioritize multiple strategies that you can implement simultaneously Set a defining vision for the organization that guides all your planning and strategy This friendly, simple guide puts the power of strategic planning in the palm of your hand. For small businesses that can’t afford to hire strategic planning consultants, it’s even more imperative. Careful, constant planning is the only way to handle an uncertain business future. With this book, you’ll have all the step-by-step guidance you need to ensure you’re ready for anything that comes.
Author : Sidney Leland Barton
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440194191
"I have "gone to school" on his research and have found his model to be a malleable process that is readily shaped to incorporate new concepts and ideas. This durability is testament to the value of Sid's work." -Don Bowers, Former CEO, Makino, Inc. Strategic Management Simplified is a handbook that is designed to help the reader achieve a critical balance so rare in business - keeping your actions tied to your strategy, making decisions with a reasonable amount of assessment, and doing both in a real time way which allows you to adjust to changing business conditions. The author uses the term strategic management versus strategic planning because the term "plan" implies a static (or point in time) exercise, while the term "management" suggests interaction and responsiveness to dynamic context. All kinds of plans can be developed to lead action, but they should be based on a strategy for the organization. The challenge is to actually manage the organization's strategy over time and to think strategically as you are doing it. This book provides an overview of the management policies and culture necessary for sound strategic planning to flourish in any organization and goes on to offer practical steps on how to create and implement: A strategic statement which can guide your organization's resource allocation decisions. A strategic management system which allows you and your staff to change your strategic statement over time as you challenge the assumptions upon which it is based.
Author : Richard Rumelt
Publisher : Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307886231
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Author : Stephen Haines
Publisher : Systems Thinking Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0976013517
"Successful strategic planning presents a reinvented model of strategic planning for the twenty-first century. Its objective is to help teams, departments, and busineses of all sizes and types to plan and implement strategies in an efficient, holistic, and integrated manner ... "--p. 3.
Author : Phil Wilton
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781662907463
This guide will walk you through five definitive moves that will improve business competitiveness! Why? Because you will learn about your organizations current position in the market place, and you will deeply explore the inner workflows and processes of your organization. This will then allow you to discover an untapped treasure trove of valuable data on your resources and capabilities that has not yet been realized or fully exploited. If you're planning a pivot of you're organization, or any part of it, your plan, in effect your strategy, is going to be akin to working blind, without the priceless data yielded in these five moves. In fact this strategic model will be extremely useful for any entity planning on pivoting and implementing competitive change, to their status quo. Five moves to checkmate is essential for leaders at all levels, and in all organizations and businesses that seek to attain, or retain their competitive advantage. Five moves to checkmate will also assist University and college educators, as well as students wishing to develop their business knowledge and acumen in strategic studies. What you will learn in ‘Five Moves To Checkmate’ is the importance of making sure you gather all the relevant external and internal data available to you. This data will then be categorized and deposited into well-known and proven strategic templates. Once these strategic templates are completed, the fifth move will connect all the data into a well known and widely used master strategic guide. This guide will be highly valuable in aiding your organization to successfully implement a strategic plan, maximizing your competitive advantage and winning your checkmate.
Author : Erica Olsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118077771
Think and act strategically every time In today's business environment, strategic planning stresses the importance of making decisions that will ensure an organization's ability to successfully respond to changes in the environment and plan for sustainable viability. Providing practical, field-tested techniques and a complete 6-phase plan, Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies shows you how to make strategy a habit for all organizations, no matter the size, type, or resource constraints. Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies is for companies of all types and sizes looking to build and sustain a competitive edge, set up an ongoing process for market assessment and trend analysis, and develop a vision for future growth. This revised edition includes: new and updated content on planning for both the short and the long-term; crucial information on succession planning; help preparing for the unexpected using scenario planning and agile strategy; strategies for implementing change and integrating strategic plans successfully by involving all staff members; and more. The supplementary CD lays out a comprehensive, 6-phase, step-by-step program, complete with downloadable spreadsheets, charts, checklists, video links, and more Provides value for any business or entrepreneur looking to improve efficiency, focus, and competitive edge Includes practical, field-tested techniques Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies gives today's business owners and upper-level management the tools and information they need to think and act strategically in order to more effectively weather current economic storms while planning for future growth.
Author : B. Keith Simerson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313384813
In this book, an expert in business strategy shows how to create and evaluate a strategic plan and execute that plan successfully. When it comes to strategic planning, B. Keith Simerson knows from experience what works and what doesn't. Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide to Strategy Formulation and Execution weaves that knowledge into a roadmap for anyone charged with creating a strategic plan, evaluating a strategic planning process, or executing resulting strategies in an effective and efficient way. Not a one-size-fits-all solution, the book offers a menu of information and options based on a broad view of strategic planning and offers correspondingly broad applicability. The guide focuses on two major aspects of the planning process: the multitude of factors contributing to an effective strategic planning framework and the multitude of drivers and enablers of successful execution. Armed with concrete information, readers will learn to create and execute a business strategy, a personal strategic action plan, or strategies for any kind of for-profit or nonprofit organization. Specific methodologies, tools, and techniques will guide readers to successful strategy formation—and execution.
Author : John M. Bryson,Farnum K. Alston
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034522295
A WORKBOOK FOR PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
Author : Erica J. Olsen
Publisher : M3 Planning, Inc
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : 9780974834320
Author : Robert M. Donnelly
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781450045049
Any book on planning has to be easy to read and full of examples on how to do it with forms and illustrations. That is exactly what this book is and why it is called a “guidebook”. The fact that most people do not plan well is well documented by the demographics of the population and the economic situation that a growing senior population is faced with now due to poor planning or no planning earlier in their lives. Since company’s are run by people they exhibit the idiosyncrasies of the people who run them. Many company’s do not have strategic plans or operating plans. Some firms do not even have a budget and operate on a day-by-day basis. The obvious result of this is crisis management, cash flow problems and the constant risk of going out of business. Many company’s both large and small have disappeared due to the lack of a plan and this has been well documented in the business press. Managers do not have a plan for their business because they do not have a plan for themselves. Planning is not something that we are born with a natural ability to do well, or in many cases - at all. Planning is a learned skill and their is a need for simple step-by-step guides which is what this book is about. It has been written as a result of years of experience that the author has had working with hundreds of company’s. The foundation for the book is a process that the author calls the “Plan-for-Planning” - a five step exercise that he has used to help managers build business plans for their company’s. It is a proven formula that has resulted in increased profitability, operational efficiencies and the optimization of the overall allocation of resources for the author’s clients. It also has been the basis for the development of executive level seminars by the author that have been promoted and implemented by BUSINESS WEEK and Inc. Magazine domestically, and Frost & Sullivan internationally. The initial publication of this book was by Inc. as a result of the success of the seminar series for their audience - growing firms. Articles have been written about the Plan-for-Planning process and it has been instrumental in the development of business plans that have resulted in company’s being sold for a premium to the shareholders as a result of the quality of the business planning process. The book has been used by many managers and in some cases continues to be a reference guide for the new businesses that they have become involved with. It is really an easy to use guide for developing a business/strategic plan for any business.
Author : Cate Gable
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1574442333
Filling the need for a "how-to," step-by-step guide to strategic planning, Strategic Action Planning NOW! outlines team-based planning in four steps. Gate Gable's techniques provide detailed guidance into planning processes, strategic skills, recognition of challenges, consideration of goals, monitoring and measurement, and implementation tips to help the reader begin the planning process almost immediately. Written in three parts, the author provides exercises with each chapter. Part one covers the pre-planning stages, defining who and what your team is and what your teams' goals are. The second part goes over the actual planning, identifying the challenges and setting the goals for your team. The third and final part deals with post planning, implementation and evaluating your team's progress.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 9789211317251
Author : Alan G. Lafley,Roger L. Martin
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422187395
Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.