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Align Your Strategy and Operational Plans to Core Competencies
Core competencies are the underpinnings of an organization’s skills and the cornerstone of successful strategic execution. Core competencies represent the fundamental knowledge, abilities, and expertise of an organization. They are what make individuals and organizations unique. Furthermore, your ability to understand and measure organizational core competencies is a critical factor in reaching your desired goals.

The 2010 Twelve-step Checklist to Help You Evaluate Your Strategic Business Planning Process
Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current plan? This article should help you to objectively evaluate your own process and self-diagnosis potential issues that may exist in your organization’s current planning world. As you read this article, answer along as we ask the questions to help you honestly evaluate your current business planning process. Let’s start with the checklist. Scan through the list and do your best to give a first impression “yes” or “no” answer to each question.

Strategic Planning - Business Executive Essentials - Part 1 of 12
Business executives are always wanting to improve their company's performance by laying out a better business plan and strategy. Many ask the question “where can I find a decent business plan template for the new year?” * Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? - Do you know what your strategic plan should accomplish? - How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current strategic planning process? - Does your own planning process consistently define meaningful goals that get achieved as expected when the plan is followed? This article is part one of a series that describes the components of a comprehensive business strategic plan and provides a checklist for evaluating strategic planning process effectiven
Are you an emotionally intelligent leader?
Every organisation needs a leader. In fact, every individual within an organisation at some stage will be called upon to display leadership qualities. It is not the exclusive domain of the Chief Executive Officer. It begs the question what qualities make for a good leader? According to Kouzes and Posner authors of the widely acclaimed "The Leadership Challenge" there are five practices of exemplary leadership.

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Strategic Thinking – A Wise Business Investment, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is critical to the long-term success of businesses today. Yet, there are too many businesses that fail to invest time, money and human capital into planning for the future. So many businesses are concentrating only on the day-to-day activities in their business and are failing to create or remember a vision for the future. Some businesses work diligently to create strategic plans, business plans, integrated marketing communications plans, etc. only to leave these plans dormant on some shelf. They fail to remember that these plans are living documents, which warrant follow-through, review and updates. Businesses need to commit to spend more time spent on strategy on a regular basis. Here are ten (10) tips from your strategic thinking business coach to help make the best use of time for strategic thinking.

Manage Your Critical Success Indicators
The experts are unanimous! The first step to successfully grow a business is to develop a solid strategic plan. A plan with measurable three year objectives linked directly to one year operational tactics. In fact, my articles constantly extol the merits of strategic plans. The mantra is clear: Plan For Success. The warnings are also clear: fail to plan you plan to fail! The implication that success will automatically follow a plan is misleading. While plans are extremely important they are only half the battle. The plan will give you the road map but you must still manage your business. Unfortunately, few of us have had any serious training in the management of a business and the trial and error approach of learning is fraught with danger.

A Good Business Plan Is Necessary, Even With a Franchise
A good business plan is necessary when you are starting a franchise. It will tell your bankers and other lenders you approach for loan about your reasons for pursuing a particular franchise opportunity. Your marketing, operational and financial plans for the franchise business you have bought are also discussed here.
Business Plans Don’t Last Forever
Business plans... you either love them or hate them. They are a beautiful thing when they create a unified focus and alignment across your company... And empower your team to go out and do what they must do to produce results. But fast-growing companies outgrow their business plans. Often, it is just a matter of time, because business plans don’t last forever! It’s highly likely you have outgrown your business plan when:
Operational Innovation
There is an opportunity for almost every company to gain advantage through operational innovation. Operational innovation simply means identify key business processes and innovating in them to achieve faster throughput, or to provide some new convenience or wow factor customers, or to bring cost of offerings down in a dramatic fashion.This article explains operational innovation with help of an example.
Business Plans: Uses and Abuses
“Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.

The Golden Thread: Linking Strategy to Execution
Detailed operational planning has to relate corporate strategy with the operations of the enterprise at the initiative level and below that at the project level. This Method Frameworks article describes ways to inject operational planning into the strategic planning process and string the “golden thread” through all of the execution loop-holes.
Align Culture and Communication for Better Strategic Planning Results
It is well accepted among organizational theorists that companies with strong cultures and well devised communications plans outperform those without such ingredients. Communication motivates employees and unites them toward a common goal. As such, in our strategic and operational planning engagements, communication is a vital component.
The 2010 Twelve-step Checklist to Help You Evaluate Your Strategic Business Planning Process
Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current plan? This article should help you to objectively evaluate your own process and self-diagnosis potential issues that may exist in your organization’s current planning world. As you read this article, answer along as we ask the questions to help you honestly evaluate your current business planning process. Let’s start with the checklist. Scan through the list and do your best to give a first impression “yes” or “no” answer to each question.

Strategic Planning - Business Executive Essentials - Part 1 of 12
Business executives are always wanting to improve their company's performance by laying out a better business plan and strategy. Many ask the question “where can I find a decent business plan template for the new year?” * Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? - Do you know what your strategic plan should accomplish? - How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current strategic planning process? - Does your own planning process consistently define meaningful goals that get achieved as expected when the plan is followed? This article is part one of a series that describes the components of a comprehensive business strategic plan and provides a checklist for evaluating strategic planning process effectiven
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