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Wednesday, November 04, 2009. Strategic Planning: When Good Goals Go Bad. By Denise Harrison, Vice President. 8220;As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody’s Investor Service, whose investment ratings were widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge the country into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” [1]. Were executives just trying to meet their short-term goals? Are you making the na...
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Strategy and Innovation
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Monday, August 31, 2009. How Can Smaller Companies Compete and Win? Denise A. Harrison. Smaller companies often feel dwarfed by the giants in their industry, especially during tough times. Often industry giants are better at weathering economic downturns with their wide array of resources. But Arena Resources’ strategy. The Road Less Traveled. What about Your Company's Strategy? Are there niches that you could pursue that are not interesting to the larger companies? In this case companies like Exxon and ...
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Strategy and Innovation: August 2006
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Thursday, August 31, 2006. Strategic Planning and Innovation—How to Generate Innovation in Your Strategic Planning Process. By Denise A. Harrison. Center for Simplified Strategic Planning. When developing a strategic plan many companies struggle to develop new and creative ideas. Why? 1 Assess your customers’ unmet needs and preferences— is there anything new? 3 Look at emerging trends— does a trend make sense, melded with your company’s traditional strengths? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Strategy and Innovation: January 2008
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008. WD-40 Finds Growth for 50 Year-old Product. How to Find New Customers for Existing Products. By Denise Harrison, Vice President. In order to meet the challenge the WD-40 Team Tomorrow looked for new and/or underserved customers. They knew that WD-40 was present in many households, but primarily a mainstay of the garage - where it is used to solve a variety of problems. According to the web site WD-40 fulfills five basic functions:. 5 PROTECTS: WD-40 protects metal surfaces wi...
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Strategy and Innovation: March 2008
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Thursday, March 13, 2008. TEN REASONS FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING. 1 As CEO are you tired of acting as a referee caused by turf battles between businesses or functional areas? Developing a strategic plan allows team members to develop a shared base of knowledge which allows the team to come to consensus on key company priorities and allocates resources based on these priorities. After a strategic planning process often CEOs can put away their striped jerseys and quiet their whistles. 6 Your team is repeatedly...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009. How Does Strategic Planning Deal with Seismic Changes in an Industry? By Denise A. Harrison. Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, Inc. It is often argued that strategic planning processes miss industry shifts due to a myopic focus on existing customers and market segments, as well as existing products and product lines - but is this correct? Wyeth: Traditional Pharma vs. Bio Tech¹. Clorox Capitalizes on Mega-trends² to Fuel Growth Strategy. Challenging the Status Quo.
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Strategy and Innovation: August 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009. How Can Smaller Companies Compete and Win? Denise A. Harrison. Smaller companies often feel dwarfed by the giants in their industry, especially during tough times. Often industry giants are better at weathering economic downturns with their wide array of resources. But Arena Resources’ strategy. The Road Less Traveled. What about Your Company's Strategy? Are there niches that you could pursue that are not interesting to the larger companies? In this case companies like Exxon and ...
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Strategy and Innovation: January 2009
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Monday, January 05, 2009. Can Goals be Bad? Banks failing, real estate loans made to people who do not and did not have the means to repay them, institutions using derivatives without fully understanding the risk – what happened? Were executives trying to meet their goals? Did these goals enable them to qualify for significant bonuses? Did this achievement of short-term goals lead to long-term instability? 1 Evaluate external forces – (is there a bubble? Will it impact your long-term growth? As your team...
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Strategy and Innovation: October 2009
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Monday, October 19, 2009. Acquisitions: Developing a Successful Integration Process. October 6th, 2009. By Denise Harrison, Vice President. Is completed. But you can not develop the integration plan in a vacuum; you need the buy-in of the key players of the acquisition target. How do you get their buy-in? Look to the future to help determine integration priorities. Now for the details. At this point, you will spend time looking at the issues that arose from the due diligence - both teams need to be invol...
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Strategy and Innovation: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007. When Is It Strategic to Say No to New Business? When can higher volume lead to lower long-term profitability? High volume and revenue activities have to harmonize with your strategic competencies and company values to be worthy of consideration. Some examples of high growth opportunities:. 1 High growth government spending on the Iraqi Conflict. 2 Wal-Mart as a customer. In pursuing this opportunity, did you lose focus on your existing business? Saying No to Wal-Mart.
