If you google “strategy” the following definition will appear: “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.”...

Don't confuse motion with progress. That is essential what happens if your strategy isn't focused on achieving a specific result. So get...

I truly hope and trust you are well and are in good spirits during these extraordinary times during the Covid-19 crisis. Yes indeed, we...

It isn’t that we don’t plan. It’s actually pretty easy to plan. I can tell you first hand, I have written  thousands of plans. Many of...

So it’s Christmas time and once again I find myself wondering why do I need to put up a Christmas tree anyway?  What’s the purpose or...

A colleague of mine pointed out to me: “Every business is perfectly designed to produce the results it is producing.” What a profound...

I recently joined Mike Smart Founder and Principal Consultant at Egress Solutions on a webinar to discuss the need and challenges middle...

Imagine you are the quarterback in the big game, and you find your team down 17 to 0, with 8 minutes remaining in the game. Your game...

In my previous article, The Reports of Strategic Planning’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated, we discussed why top-down (deliberate/intended)...

When I read management articles about the death of strategic planning, I am reminded by the quote Mark Twain quipped after hearing a...

A common ailment of new product development is the inability of companies to kill off projects that no longer demonstrate economic...

In a fast pace competitive environment where change is the only real constant, how does a business build and maintain a competitive...

In my last article, “Finding The Next Big Opportunity Using Jobs-To-Be-Done Innovation Theory,” I presented the “jobs-to-be-done  (J2BD)...

All successful companies have a clear strategic direction of where to play (their target market) and how to win (their unique value...

Coming up with great ideas must be a priority for companies who want to launch a continuous stream of successful new products. The better...

Studies have shown that the failure rate for new products across most industries runs between 40% to 90% of the time. And most failures...

You have a great new solution that you believe passionately will help people get an important job done way better than what they are...

Hard to believe, but 2015 is almost over At the end of each year, I like to post my favorite quotes I come across that either inspired...

Dick Tracy was wearing a “smartwatch” way back in 1946. So the idea of a smartwatch is nothing new, at least not in the imagination of...

Developing and launching innovative new products is inherently risky. No true new idea is fully formed from the start. You simply will...