Content about Strategic planning

March 8, 2012
Small Business Dynamics
How can women and minority business owners be most successful? Use your diversity position as reason to conduct strategic planning...dealing honestly and forcefully with the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of your business. Thus, you will initiate more partnerships and carve a market niche.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

How can women and minority business owners be most successful?

See yourself as a plus to the business world, not as a liability. We are all minorities operating in the whole, as do professional specialties within the company’s big picture. Through diversity, each element blends and supports others, as does the corporate visioning process. Major public sector contracts require qualified minority subcontractors. Select partners, and show good faith efforts to procure and execute contracts.

July 12, 2011
How to Set Goals

Goal setting and strategic planning are key to an organization’s success. People do not take long car trips without a road map. It is hard to achieve success in 2011 if you don’t know where you were in 2010 and to set standards for the coming year.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

The start of each new year offers business the opportunity to re-evaluate the past year and set goals for the next. While intentions are noble, businesses usually fall into old ruts because they do not take the time to plan.

To avoid the high cost of doing nothing, I pose these strategic questions to ask companies:

April 13, 2011
Lessons Learned from the Business Crises

To benefit from change and to grow, each organization must understand where it’s been and where it might go. Research trends and spot opportunities. Put more focus upon running a successful organization. Get a qualified business mentor. Identify stakeholders and work with them. Predict and benefit from cycles in business. Broaden the scope of your services. Find creative ways to collaborate.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

From tough economic times, things can and will move forward again. Those who weather the current downturn and strategize their courses will be more successful in the next upturn.

Business must learn the lessons from the corporate scandals and the economic downturn. The ways in which business corrects itself will restore the economy and produce extraordinary business opportunities.