Purposes of Our System:

1. Future Global Environmental Scan (Strategic Thinking at its finest)
2. Yearly Strategic Management System/Cycle (Reinventing Strategic Planning for the 21st Century: Planning–People–Leadership–Change)
3. Value-Added Proposition and Marketplace Positioning (Growing your business vs. the competition)
4. Strategic Thinking on a daily basis (Building a customer-focused, strategically oriented enterprise)
5. Lessons learned today–applied to your organization

Benefits:

1. Gaining clarity on strategic thinking and planning and its benefits and application
2. Acquiring the knowledge and skills to apply a disciplined systems approach to developing a strategic plan, and keeping it “alive” with strategic thinking on a daily basis
3. Learning from real-life examples and case studies, and relating them to the local context
4. Discussing your own real-life situations and sharing the knowledge and experience of the other participants and the facilitators
5. Being exposed to global best practices and experience, and the common strategic issues of progressive organizations
6. Immediately applying the skills you learn to your own case
7. Understanding the strategic management system, and its context for good strategic thinking

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1. Your Future Environmental Scanning process was a real eye opener. I did not realize how critical it was (as opposed to a SWOT) for key marketplace success and for setting up a cadre of change agents. Thank you.
2. You really have Reinvented Strategic Planning into something much more serious, disciplined and effective that makes complete common sense. I will begin connecting the pieces of ours and fill in the gaps when I get home.
3. Your Strategic Management System is very simple, practical, and effective. Why no one else has ever articulated this is beyond me.
4. You are the first ones to clarify all the confusing terms such as brand, reputation, unique selling proposition, image and the like in your work on Positioning. Wonderful!
5. It is so clear to me now that we do not have a clear marketplace positioning and it is holding back our growth, profits, and success. When I go back, we will work on this right away as it really is the PhD of Strategy–but finally clear to me.
6. Your Top Ten Tools for Everyday Strategic Thinking are terrific–simple, practical and based on common sense so I can use them right away.
7. Your Strategic Thinking ABCs Template and core technology were a gift to me in the workshop and I have now begun thinking of simple ways to use if over and over again in my work on projects, meetings, issues, and strategy as well.
8. The ideal of a Strategic Life Plan never occurred to me. However, now I have an ABC process that my husband and I will use, starting next week.
9. This was not just a workshop although I learned so much. I actually got to work on 2 key issues I am facing and now have some solutions to them. Thank you so much for your coaching in the workshop and after it yesterday as well.
10. Your real life examples of successes and failures in this Strategic Management work were great. They really helped bring the material home to me in a way that I can remember and apply it.
11. Thinking of change from the first minute of planning was a new idea to me and I love it. It will make a real difference in how we approach Strategic Planning in the future–especially with your “People support what they help create” framework.