A preoccupation with immediate issues can result in a small businesses losing sight of the importance of planning for long-term business goals and objectives. The first step in management refers to a ...

B2B organizations often find themselves at a crossroads between strategy formulation and strategy execution. The harsh reality is that many fail to transform their well-crafted strategies into ...

Recently, a CEO I know (I’ll call him Jeff) invited me to weigh in on a corporate strategy initiative that his company was undertaking. Jeff and his leadership team had been focused on day-to-day ...

Strategies are shaped by the processes that produce them. If designed well, a strategy formulation process enables decisionmakers to evaluate the political, security, and budgetary environments, ...

There is plenty of advice in the air as the Defense Department prepares its latest National Defense Strategy, the report formerly known as the Quadrennial Defense Review. Most of the advice concerns ...

MOST organisations whose years follow the Gregorian Calendar are now in their last quarter of the year. This is a very critical period where the organisations look back on the journey travelled during ...