What is Strategic Planning? The future success of your organisation depends on effective strategic planning. Strategic planning is the process of establishing and documenting a direction of your organisation by…
What is a Strategic Objective? Strategic Objectives describes what the organisation want to achieve in the short to medium term and serve as stepping stones for attaining its Goals. Objectives…
What is a Strategy Map? Strategy mapping can vastly improve any strategy communication effort. A strategy map is a graphic that shows a logical, cause-and-effect connection between all of the…
Prescriptive Vs Emergent Strategies There is often confusion between the concepts of prescriptive and emergent strategies. This article considers the differences and merits of each type of strategy. Prescriptive Strategy…
What are Strategic Interviews? Strategic Interviews are one-to-one discussions that are held with the people who are involved with the strategy development process and/or have knowledge that is important to…
Where Should Strategic Interviews be Held? Where you conduct your strategic interviews can have a significant impact on the results obtained. The interviews should be held in a relatively neutral…
Strategic Interviews Case Study Introduction It should be noted at this point that I took care not to use the word ‘interview’, preferring to use ‘discussion’ instead, as I felt…
How a Firm’s Remuneration System Can Impact Attaining its Strategic Goals In many professional services firms their partner remuneration is often based on their personal performance rather than the performance…
Practice and Sector Focused Strategies In Professional Service Firms In our article “The Unique Challenges of Developing Strategic Plans for Professional Partnerships” we looked at how the structure of partnerships…
Creating a More Effective Corporate Structure for Professional Partnerships In our article entitled “Unique Challenges of Developing Strategic Plans for Professional Partnerships” we discussed the difficulties that they way that…