What is the Difference between Purpose, Mission, Vision & Values?
Your purpose, mission and vision play an extremely important role in shaping the culture of an organisation but there is often confusion about what they mean. The confusion about the…
What is Mission Statement and How Do You Create it?
A Mission Statement is an integral component of your business’s overall strategic plan. A mission statement set out the aims, philosophy and values of an organisation, describing what business the…
What are Strategic Activities?
Strategic activities are actions, projects and other activities that are designed to generate outcomes that ultimately lead to attaining objectives, goals and eventually to achieving the organisation’s vision. As can be seen…
Refine the Emerging Strategy
Once the strategic information has been analysed and the strategy model has been created it is time to review and refine it. This review is especially important after the first…
Create the Strategy Model
The creation of the strategy model is an integral part of the overall strategy creation process as shown in the diagram. It works specifically on identifying the key issues and…
Analysing the Strategic Data
The ‘strategy maps’ that are generated can often become very complex with a large number of statements linked together in many different ways. Strategy development is inherently complex so accepting this…
What are Strategy Workshops?
Strategic Workshops are meetings that are designed to encourage a group of key people in your organisation to contribute their ideas, issues, opinions, etc. regarding the strategic direction of the…
How many Strategy Workshops should be held?
While it is possible to run only one strategy workshop to uncover a basic strategic direction for the business, it is more common to run multiple workshops in order to…
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 effective in different situations so it…
How do we make the most of a SWOT Analysis?
In conventional SWOT analysis information is captured as a set of individual statements that can be used and referred to at a later date, The issue here is that no contextual information is not…