Evaluating Your Effort
The best time to begin thinking about your firm's performance was back when you developed your objectives and strategy.
Forecasting Tips
Throughout the course of developing and running your business, decisions must be made now based on the outcome of future events. For example,...
The Tornado Diagram
What is a company worth? This question often perplexes businesses of all types and sizes. The answer often involves an analysis of stock prices. But what about privately held companies where information on stock prices does not exist?
Scan Plan
Managing a firm is tough enough when dealing with internal issues. Add the task of monitoring the external environment ... and reach for the aspirin. Many simply secede these events as uncontrollable and unworthy of attention -- and suffer for it. Find a way to keep your finger on the pulse.
The Client Advisory Council
Create a source of genuine, actionable intelligence and a foundation for greater firm success. Convene a client advisory council as a sounding board and new idea generating committee. Find out how this differs from traditional market research.
Reconciling Change at Break-Neck Speed
In this fast-paced global economy, change at break-neck speed is the norm, not the exception. How do you reconcile the need for change with ingrained resistance to change? Once reconciled, how do you insure the actual change effort will be successful?