Strategic Management - articles & tools for success
Strategy is an integral part of management, and a lack of strategic
planning is sure to cause you to fall short of your goals. This collection
of articles will help you focus on the key aspects of building successful
plans for the management of your business.
Strategic
Planning 
Last Modified: 12/02/2004
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Strategic planning is the process of developing high-level, “big
picture” plans to set a company’s strategic direction and overall
planning framework within a short (one year) to medium (three to five
years) timeframe.
Why
Plan?
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Business planning is not a technique - it is a complete way of running
an organisation. It is a system that needs to be implemented, maintained
and continuously improved.
Outsourcing
- Leveraging Capital For Strategic Priorities
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Outsourcing is a strategic management tool often confused with
ideology. Strategic focus and competitive advantage are tools of managers
not politicians.
Till
Death Do Us Part - Down the Strategic Alliance Aisle
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
The success rate of marriage in Australia is reportedly higher than for
corporate strategic alliances. That’s right, the failure rate of
strategic alliances is higher than for marriage!
Till
Death Do Us Part - Nurturing and Managing A Strategic Alliance
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
The Strategic Alliance Honeymoon ... Expectation and good will are
abundant. This alliance is going to work. No problem is too difficult to
overcome. Energy levels are high and the future looks bright. And then
reality sets in.
Benefits
Of Strategic Planning In The Family Business
Category: Expert Talk > Succession, Mergers & Acquisitions
Because of the well known ambivalence to succession planning in the
family business it may, at times, be preferable to approach the exercise
as part of an overall strategic business planning or business continuity
planning process in which owner-mangers can see some immediate benefits.
Building
Bridges - How Businesses Can Fail To Strategise Effectively
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Over the last year, we have noticed that many organizations seem to
plan their growth - if they plan it at all, in an almost haphazard way.
Strategic
Management For Small To Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Getting from “Where you are now to where you want to be”.
Strategic
Planning: Keeping The Planning Process Simple
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Many family business owners express the view that they don’t have the
time to plan for the next couple of months, much less for the next two or
three years.
Link
Today's Actions With Tomorrow's Goals
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Do your business’s budgets bear any resemblance to its long-term
strategic objectives. "No" is not an uncommon response. A
probable reason?
Enabling
'Entrepreneurial' Business Growth
Category: Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance
Why do some companies grow and are successful over many years, while
other companies struggle to 'move-beyond' their initial growth stage and
early successes?
Contracting
Out
Category: Expert Talk > Leadership & Management
Contracting out specific functions is NOT the best decision for your
business if you are making it simply as a cost-cutting measure.
Business
Planning Tips
Category: Expert Talk > Strategic & Business Planning
Checklist for business plan preparation.
Consultants
Are Out; Resultants Are In
Category: Expert Talk > Leadership & Management
A new generation of business outsourcing.
Law
Of Increasing Returns
Category: Case Studies > International Business
An Australian legal software maker has learnt valuable lessons about
how to get an international operation up — and running.
Fast
Growth Secrets - From The BRW Fast 100
Category: Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
For the past 14 years, BRW magazine has held an annual competition to
find Australia’s fastest growing small and medium-size businesses (limit
of 200 employees) and record how they achieved their success. Companies
are ranked according to average annual revenue growth.
Find
A Need - And Found A New Business
Category: Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
When Susan Williams was an employee at a removals company, customers
wanted a service her company did not offer: unpacking. So she started a
business to meet their needs.
Secrets
Of A Super-Fast Grower
Category: Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
The CEO of one of Australia's 100 fastest growing small businesses says
his success is all about finance, leadership and service.
A
Good Phoenix Dusts Off Its Ashes
Category: Case Studies > Business Growth & Performance
When Cleanevent went into voluntary administration, its founder did not
stop fighting for his company.
Survival
Of The Fittest
Category: Expert Talk > Business Growth & Performance
When the last economic downturn hit, companies responded by
'downsizing, 'rightsizing' or some other euphemism for reducing staff
numbers.
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