Thinking Strategically - CEO Online

Building Your Strategic Agility

Monday 13 February 2012

Business innovation and strategic planning are essential components of a business strategy to survive harsh economic climates. Does your business have the strategic flexibility to survive? Learn the steps to building the strategic agility of your organisation.

Responding To Changing Market Conditions

Monday 13 December 2010

Does the attribute that made you different and better in 2000 still make you different and better next year and beyond?

Are Your Strategies Working?

Thursday 28 October 2010

Do you ever find yourself doing something in a way that frustrates or irritates you, over and over again? Chances are that any repetitive behaviour in the way that you run your business, or your life, is just one of many ‘strategies’ you employ.

Applied Strategic Planning: The Corporate Reality Show

Monday 14 September 2009

Strategic planning at most companies, if accomplished at all, doesn’t really matter anymore. Certainly, the planning process frequently consumes a tremendous amount of time and energy, and produces reams of data and 3-hole binders; rarely, however, does it drive top management’s decisions or a company’s overall strategy.

Strategising Your Business: A Market-Dominating Primer

Tuesday 18 August 2009

Every business needs to set goals. But what comes next? Learn to strategise your business to achieve your goals with less daily effort.

Strategic Planning Tools To Maximise Your Profit Potential

Tuesday 16 December 2008

Whole-of-business thinking enables you to increase the profit potential of your business. So, how can you act now to adopt a whole-of-business approach?

Strategies Have A Use-By Date Too!

Monday 8 December 2008

Just as all marketeers recognise the need to have a balanced portfolio of products at various stages of the product life-cycle, management needs to understand that business strategies are subject to the same stages of introduction, growth, maturity and decline.

Cost-Cutting Is Not The Only Answer

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Business owners should not jump to the conclusion that cost-cutting is the answer to survival when sales fall off.

Increase Profits By Losing Your Worst Clients

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Great clients are the ones we all know contribute to the bottom line. But what do we do about those who seem like more trouble than they're worth?

Converting Clients From Time-Based To Value-Based Billing

Monday 14 July 2008

Consulting businesses are losing money and doing their clients a disservice by using time-based, rather than value-based billing. Value-based fees are important, not just because they generate more wealth for the consultant, but because they are more honest in terms of the client.