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Case Study: Tax Management Services For An Energy Company
As CEO, are you tired of acting as a referee caused by turf battles between businesses or functional areas? Developing a strategic plan allows team members to develop a shared base of knowledge which allows the team to come to consensus on key company priorities and allocates resources based on...
Tags: Team, Priority, Tax, CEO, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Team Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Strategic Planning Is A Necessity In Business Success
You may have decided that your company needs a comprehensive, formal strategic plan, but are you really ready for the challenge? Just as important as your willingness to plan is your commitment to expend the resources (time, creative energy and money) required to do it right. Proper planning always involves...
Tags: Resource, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
The Integral Relationship Between Business And IT Strategy In The Organization
Market trends are some of the key factors to look at when developing a strategic plan. But in addition to looking at the market attractiveness a company must also look inside and assess its own strengths and weaknesses. Compete on strengths and avoid areas of weakness. All of the airlines...
Tags: Integral, Information Technology, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Transportation
White papers 2009-01-01
SWOT Analysis Revisited
People make a lot of the SWOT analysis in strategic planning. As a rudimentary approach to thinking about strategy, the SWOT works pretty well. There is so much more to great strategy than a simple SWOT analysis. Sure, it's a great buzzword. There are three main reasons. First, the SWOT...
Tags: Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2009-01-01
Competing With A Market Leader
If your industry is dominated by a large and powerful competitor, perhaps one that is so successful that they have become the household name on the tip of every customer's tongue, you may be ready to throw in the towel and start looking elsewhere for business success. Before you do,...
Tags: Competitor, Leader, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Productivity, Strategy, Leadership, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
8 Tips For Better Strategic Planning In The Smaller Company
This paper explains some important tips for making the strategic planning process effective in a smaller organization. Strategic planning should be viewed as a routine part of your year, rather than a separate event, so make sure the process fits into your normal business cycle with a minimum of hassle....
Tags: Tip, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Communicating Your Strategic Plan With Employees
It's critically important that employees understand your strategy. Employees who understand your strategy will be able to make better day-to-day decisions that will support your vision. But, while most of us understand this - at least intellectually - we often have difficulty effectively communicating our strategies to people outside of...
Tags: Employee, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Mission And Values In Your Value Proposition
If yours is a small to mid-sized organization, understanding, developing and promoting your Values and Mission offer a particularly huge opportunity to make your value proposition unique and compelling. You can do things in this mission/values arena that few large companies and certainly no low-cost, off-shore suppliers can dream of.
Tags: Value Proposition, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-01
Strategic Planning Lessons From Going Green
It shouldn't be a surprise to you that going green can be an extremely useful strategy in nowadays' markets. There is no substitute for good, structured strategic planning in assessing and choosing the rising new customer preferences that you will serve. Many of tomorrow's winning companies will succeed because they...
Tags: Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Strategic Planning Made Simple
If you do not thoughtfully lay out a course and direction for your family business, it is likely that environment and external factors will lay out one for you. You may eventually be forced to accept a strategy that is a whole lot less satisfactory than one you could have...
Tags: Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Market Segmentation - Starting With The Basics
The basics of Strategic Planning can be misunderstood by those who need to determine what they are and how they apply to the overall development of your strategic plans. On one hand, some teams will overlook the importance of carefully defining the market segments so they can obtain the best...
Tags: Team, Basics, Market-segmentation, Analysis, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Team Management, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing
White papers 2008-01-01
March To A Different Drummer
Developing a strategy is defining not only what the company will do, but also what it will not do. Making definitive choices is one of the most important aspects of strategic planning. Choosing the best road for the company may or may not be the road less traveled, but it...
Tags: Road, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Creating A Business Plan For Your Nonprofit Organization
All around you, the air is filled with the sounds of despair as the economy limps forward. In the meantime, your strategy is sound, your business prospects still look good and you have decided that you refuse to participate in the current downturn. This paper explains three things that you...
Tags: Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
How To Use Benchmarking To Improve Performance Management
REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL! Is that what you want for yourself and your company? What is your company's potential? Do you have a vision of it? Yes? That's why you use Simplified Strategic Planning, isn't it? In the Simplified Strategic Planning process you build toward your strategy - your vision for...
Tags: Performance, Benchmarking, Performance Management, Vision, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Continuous Improvement And Benchmarking
At the corporate level, seeking broadly-based, multiple sources of market intelligence on which to base strategic planning is a good start. Having sufficient independent oversight on operations and finances is another good method. At the end, however, it comes down to the ethics of the company and its leaders. There...
Tags: Benchmarking, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Business Ethics, Management, Leadership
White papers 2009-01-01
Strategic Evaluation O Acquisition Targets
This paper takes a quick look at the strategic factors that may dramatically change your assessment of the value of an acquisition target. Market impact is the effect that combining your company with the target will have on market behaviors. As you can see, there are many ways an acquired...
Tags: Target, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Sales, Investment, Finance
White papers 2009-01-01
Case Study: Tax Management Services For A Large Multinational High-Tech Company
Strategic success comes not simply from crafting sound strategy and implementation plans. Both are essential ingredients, but results come from activities that people engage in. Your people can only deliver good strategic results if you ensure that they align their actions closely with the course and direction, implementation plans, and...
Tags: Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning, Taxes, Strategy, Free Trade, Management, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2009-01-01
Case Study: Tax Management Services For Energy Companies
As a company looks for additional growth, its strategic planning team needs to remember that not all growth is good growth. When searching for growth, a team can be lured by the siren song of a big customer or a high growth segment. However, the team might find the new...
Tags: Team, Growth, Tax, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Team Management, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Case Study: Tax Management Services For A Global Bank
When the strategy is simple and clear, the company leaders can deliver and reinforce the message in a passing hallway conversation, dozens of times each day. A strategy distilled to this level becomes a beacon that lights a path through the clutter of conflicting priorities. Everyone in the company learns...
Tags: Bank, Tax, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Case Study: Tax Management Services For A Global Agriculture Company
Commodity industries that are highly capital intensive, have cyclic markets and high transportation costs are particularly susceptible to price fluctuations caused by unexpected supply/demand imbalances. This price variability makes investment in additional capacity very dicey. The long-term result is product substitution and periods of over-building capacity once companies overcome their...
Tags: Tax, Imbalance, Center For Simplified Strategic Planning, Transportation
White papers 2009-01-01