by Phil Jones | Updated 30 May, 2020 | Language of strategy, Strategic planning, Thought provokers
A strategy document serves a different purpose to a strategic plan. Confusion between these different documents causes good strategies to be described badly. The difference between strategy document and strategic plan At Excitant, we make a very clear...
by Phil Jones | Updated 22 Feb, 2018 | Strategic planning
One of the things I find as a consultant is the need to discuss with the client “The presenting problem”, and then to explore, to diagnose to find out what actually is the deeper, underlying problem. Only when you find and address that, do you have a...
by Phil Jones | Updated 29 Oct, 2018 | Balanced Scorecard Questions & Answers, Strategic planning
stimulaYou might be wondering whether you should use a Balanced Scorecard for strategic planning process. Here is my response to that very question. Don’t use “a balanced scorecard”: use “The Balanced Scorecard Approach” and use it to...
by Phil Jones | Updated 4 Jan, 2018 | A Modern System of Management, Strategic planning
Increasingly businesses are aware that traditional, annual budgeting can constrain, as much as it controls and plans. No-one is saying, “Ignore the money”. However, it is a tool designed for centralised planning over relatively long and stable periods. The...