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…
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…
What are Strategy Workshops? Strategic Workshops are meetings that are designed to encourage a group of key people in your organisation to contribute to the strategic direction of the organisation…
How Strategy Workshops Help Build Consensus Consensus is critical to the successful implementation of an organisations strategy. Workshops are a good way to build consensus as part of the strategy…
How Many Workshops Should be Held? The number of strategic workshops that are run will depend on the amount of information required and the number of people involved. It is…
Why should Strategy Workshops be used? Strategy Workshops are used when multiple perspectives of the strategic future for the business need to be uncovered in a relatively short timeframe but…
Why Should Strategic Interviews be used? It is important to understand when it is more appropriate to use strategic interviews rather than using strategy workshops. Both Interviews and Workshops are…
How to Obtain Strategic Information from Interviews The primary purpose of strategic interviews is to obtain information that will be useful in developing a strategy for the organisation. This includes actions that…
How to make the most of a SWOT Analysis In conventional SWOT analysis information is captured as a set of individual statements that can be referred to at a later…
What is Causal Mapping? Causal mapping is one of the most powerful tools available to businesses today. Its versatility and ability to adapt to the needs of different businesses have…