Archive for October, 2008
The Association of Strategic Planning published an article on our Market Maps framework for customer-driven strategic planning. Below is a clip from ASP’s monthly newsletter with a link to the article.
This Month’s Feature Article: Market Maps: a New Strategy Tool to Deliver the iPod, Wii, or Prius of Your Industry
According to author Michael Kanazawa, author of Big Ideas to Big Results and ASP member, the seventies brought the BCG matrix, the eighties Porter’s Five Forces, and the nineties Core Process Reengineering (CPR). Now, in the new millennium Kanazawa brings to the strategic planning world Market Maps, a new framework for creating strategy from the customer perspective. Find out more about this new strategy tool by reading the whole article on ASP’s web site.
A Checklist and Process for Conducting Rapid Due Diligence on Your Own Company
By: Michael Kanazawa
When economic storms strike businesses, often the first move is to quickly reorganize to reduce costs. This is often a necessary move to reduce the fixed cost structure of the business. However, if done without a sense of strategy and priorities, it can damage healthy parts of the business and miss the opportunity for even deeper reductions in ailing parts of the business. The ability to conduct a rapid and sound strategic assessment can create an important distinction between flailing and decisive action. Conducting a form of due diligence on your own company can provide a fast way to set direction and priorities without just relying on gut feel, politics, and outdated assumptions to make the changes. In this post we share a specific checklist and process to get through an assessment fast. (more…)
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