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Strategic Thinking Exercise – Use a New SWOT Nobody Expects

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Even if you are going into the meeting with the same old people , the same old topics, and the same old expectations to just get a strategy done and put into a notebook on a shelf so you can go back to doing what you’ve always been doing, there is hope! Are you up for changing that? You have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis.

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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 11 Things Running through a Facilitator’s Head

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The company wants to make significant changes to a major production process. During the innovation strategy discussions, we addressed the production process changes from five different perspectives. Do I have time and room to experiment with the group to take them into new areas of innovation strategy ?

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working

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7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

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We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. Taking a look at the list, we started trying different approaches to arrange the big list of ideas into sensible groups to help stimulate progress. In Groups of Items Doing Similar Things. 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order.

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11 Fun Strategic Planning Ideas to Stop Strategy Snoozefests!

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To avoid it, it’s vital to break out of the typical strategic planning process formula where it’s all about the same old people, the same old strategy exercises, and the same old expectations to just get a plan done so it can sit on the shelf with other strategies while the organization keeps doing the same old things.

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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

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While leading strategy development in a new company poses challenges (including needing to learn a tremendous amount as you go), it has a comparable number of advantages (Including not laboring under preconceived ideas about how the organization does things). Getting to What Is Strategic. What Is Strategic and What Isn’t?

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 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

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What can you do to make strategic planning more productive before, during, and after? Instead of delivering a high-level, generalized strategy document, we deliver multiple tools and resources leaders can continue using to develop innovative ideas, tactics, and alternatives to implement the plan.