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8 Ways You Can Improve Your Strategy & Leadership Skills to Scale Your Business

Joseph Lalonde

Every business requires effective strategies and executions to grow. However, some business owners do not know how to strategize for their business. While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. Goal-setting is a proven business strategy.

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NOISE Analysis and SOLVED Cards: A Solution-Focused Approach to Strategic Planning and Organizational Growth

Mike Cardus

In contrast to traditional problem-centric methods like SWOT, the N OISE analysis offers a powerful, solution-focused approach to strategic planning and organization development. A key question might be, “What are we doing exceptionally well, and how do we know?” ” This keeps the focus on actionable improvements.

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The 3 Best Ways To Implement A Leaner Business

Strategy Driven

Striving for a constant source of improvement is one of the key aspects, and after alleviating the bottlenecks in your process, and establishing a pull system, you need to find ways to continually improve your operations. From there, you can learn how to improve your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

This annual strategic review and planning meeting may take as long as a week (because you will be pre-deciding how to act should certain key assumptions come to pass), but when done well it leads to a more purposeful and energized commitment to the future. Weekly Operational Meetings. They know where they’re headed and why.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights. Showing you how you can shift your perspective. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. They introduce the concept of the Empathy Map that was created by XPLANE.

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A 6-Part Tool for Ranking and Assessing Risks

Harvard Business Review

You might say CARVER is a SWOT analysis on steroids. CARVER is an acronym that stands for: Criticality: how essential an asset or critical system is to your company. Accessibility: how hard it would be for an adversary to access or attack the asset. 4 – Loss would reduce operations considerably.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

Harvard Business Review

Collectively known as "operational risks", these latter costs are substantial yet, if managed properly, could significantly, reduce the bottom line with few negative side effects. Of course, reducing costs by managing operational risks requires a change of mindset, a more comprehensive strategy and a change of heart.

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