Posted by Joe Strategy on July 9, 2010 in Planning Tools
One of the most dreadful parts of starting a business is writing the business plan. They can be incredibly boring, long-winded and often times end up collecting dust on your bookshelf.
Joe Strategy’s advice to small businesses can fix that! Welcome to Business Plans 101, the most basic and uncomplicated understanding of what’s good and bad about business plans that you will find. Read more
Posted by Joe Strategy on June 25, 2010 in Planning Tools
Or Queen, of course. The point is that it’s important to look at small business strategic planning with new and fresh thinking and to develop new strategic planning best practices.
Joe Strategy’s advice to small businesses that are either family-owned or managed by a dominant leader is to use the strategic planning tool developed by the Vann Group called “It’s Good to be King!” Essentially, you insert the following exercise into your strategic planning process…. Read more
Posted by Joe Strategy on June 18, 2010 in Planning Tools
Strategic planning best practices should never be static. After all, how many SWOTs can you stomach? While the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) exercise has been a useful part of many strategic planning models, the fact is that when you do the same thing too many times, you come up with the same answers. That’s when it’s time for a new tool. Read more