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Learn why the pandemic should not disrupt your strategic management.

Focused Momentum

Mid-year usually is the time to review progress against goals, and update your strategic thinking, given new changes to your plan assumptions. Is a mid-year check-in against plans relevant given the sweeping changes we are experiencing with this global pandemic?

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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Making strategy behind closed doors is a prescription for failure when disruptions are coming from all directions. It approaches disruption as a threat and aims to provide a solution to handle this threat. Formulating and executing a sound organizational strategy is complex. One such tool is the Nightmare Competitor Contest.

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Three Steps to Evaluate Emerging Strategic Issues (without disrupting your plan)

Focused Momentum

Managers consistently struggle with how to encourage innovation. In the last two posts, I discussed renewing strategic thinking months before budgeting as another discipline of strategic management.

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Dealing with the Coronavirus Disruption

Focused Momentum

I have a good friend just about to retire. In a text exchange over the last week, I inquired " Still set for the move? " His response. " Yes, the movers are scheduled, and I plan to give notice at the end of this month, only I look at my investment portfolio daily. Maybe I should wait.".

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Dozens of Ways to Fast Forward Your Implementation Plan

BrainZooming

Related posts Making a Decision – 7 Situations Begging for Quick Decisions Fast Forward Your Strategy Implementation Process: Free eBook 15 Ways Whoever Is Going to Disrupt Your Market Isn’t Like You Strategic Planning – 7 Questions for Avoiding Strategic Management Failures Project Management Techniques – 5 Final Report Success Tips.

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80 Fun Strategic Planning Activities and Ideas!

BrainZooming

While a strategic planning process may promise to deliver real objectives and tactics, it often never happens as promised. Senior executives may say they want disruptive ideas, but they really want ideas that are easy to grasp and fit the current system.

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Actor-Oriented Organizing for the Digital Age

IdeaSpies

Many start-up companies use digital technologies to develop new products and business models that disrupt the present way of doing business and take customers away from firms that cannot change and adapt. Hierarchically managed organizations, in short, are constrained in their ability to innovate.