Strategic Planning

The expectations aren’t being met.

Strategy can be thought of as a loop with four steps: making sense of a situation, making choices, making things happen and making revisions.

The importance of properly identifying the strategies, and anticipating the actions, of rivals.

Truly innovative strategy must emanate from more than objective analysis.

A misapplied bottom-up approach can often lead to unintended consequences.

If pricing isn’t a strategic capability — a contributor to a company’s ability to implement its strategy — it’s probably a strategic liability.

How can companies combat the overconfidence and tunnel vision common to so much decision making?

Analog Devices is a case study in how management innovation is a key to competitiveness.

After strategies are set and plans are made, management’s primary task is to ensure that these plans are carried out.