Strategy and Planning


Recent Strategy and Planning Articles

Fresh Start: Accident Alters Destiny

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Oct 15, 1999

Accident Alters Destiny First start : Management trainee in family business Catalyst : Near-...  Read more

Strategies for Reducing Your Environmental Liability

Oct 13, 1999

Today, a comprehensive web of environmental laws regulate the use, disposal and remediation of hazardous materials. This regulatory scheme includes federa...  Read more

The Peer Group: The Benefits of Brutal Honesty

By Susan Greco |  Sep 27, 1999

In the movie You've Got Mail , when Meg Ryan asks Tom Hanks how to save her ailing Manhattan bookstore, he suggests that she seek insights from Read more

Boards and CEO Succession

By Ralph Ward |  Jul 1, 1999

Despite talk of "imperial CEOs," the average tenure for chief executives has steadily shrunk over the past decade. This trend, combined with the proven da...  Read more

The New Commandments of Change

By George Gendron |  Jun 1, 1999

Much of the current literature on change promotes one feeling: fear of the future. How refreshing, then, to hear a message that's not just saner but more per...  Read more

Put Skin in the Game

By Edward O. Welles |  Jun 1, 1999

By taking equity from some of its clients in lieu of fees, the Parthenon Group, a Boston consulting firm, thinks it's hit upon a win-win formula. Others aren...  Read more

Board Pay: Five Hot Trends

By Ralph Ward |  Jun 1, 1999

Rhoda Edelman, of Pearl Meyer and Partners, a New York-based consultancy specializing in board pay, identifies five hot trends in director compensation ba...  Read more

Five Tips for Putting Your Board Online

By Ralph Ward |  Jun 1, 1999

Using Communications Technology for Better Board Results June Klein, president of Technology & Marketing Ventures in New York City...  Read more

When Everyone Was Excellent

By Joshua Hyatt |  May 15, 1999

With "In Search of Excellence," co-authors Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. turned management advice into a fashion industry. Here are some overlo...  Read more

Confessions of a Ghost

By Anonymous Anonymous |  May 15, 1999

A best-selling ghostwriter explains the making of business books, and what you don't want to know about it.  Read more

America's Best-Kept Secret

By Karen Dillon |  May 1, 1999

An introduction to the 1999 Inner City 100. Explains how the winners were selected and describes the ways that companies on the list made their locations a b...  Read more

Strategic Planning 101

By Karen Carney |  May 1, 1999

Unfortunately, strategic planning gets a bad rap at a lot of companies because it' s perceived as a useless exercise. But at many innovative, well-managed...  Read more

Silicon Valley Confidential

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Apr 1, 1999

Reviews of six new business books. Subjects include the early days at Apple Computer, ways to avoid a crisis, and Mom's business advice. Plus: a Xerox scient...  Read more

The New Girls' Club

By Marc Ballon |  Mar 1, 1999

Sheri Grady is on a crusade to crack what she calls the "last bastion of male domination": corporate boards.There are too few women governing corporate Am...  Read more

Hook, Line, and Sinker

By Susan Greco |  Feb 2, 1999

It all sounded so simple and so true. "Grow or die." "You must be virtual." "Go global." "Capi...  Read more

Low-Tech Smarts

By Christopher Caggiano |  Jan 1, 1999

Knowledge management isn't just for big companies anymore. Want a smarter company? Too bad you can't invest some serious dough in ...  Read more

Not Your Father's Industry

By Edward O. Welles |  Jan 1, 1999

With relatively few experts inhabiting the E-commerce industry, many Web-company CEOs exchange ideas, council, and competitive secrets by sitting on each oth...  Read more

Managing through Turbulent Times

By Jerry Useem |  Jan 1, 1999

To keep your growing company on track during a volatile economic period, you should know the answers to these six basic questions.  Read more

The Core of Successful Marketing

By Michael T. Brandt |  Jan 1, 1999

The 8 characteristics of every effective marketing plan  Read more

Want Better Performance? Try Better Planning

By Karen Carney |  Jan 1, 1999

When done effectively, strategic planning is among the most potent competitive weapons a company can have. Planning helps everyone better understand the d...  Read more

Who Administers Your Board?

By Ralph Ward |  Jan 1, 1999

If a good board is important to your company, why leave its administration a part-time afterthought? More companies are aiming for boardroom excellence wi...  Read more

The Start-Up Board

By Ralph Ward |  Jan 1, 1999

Randal Walti, head of Oaktree Consulting in Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., specializes in CEO coaching, but he's also been a director of more start-up compan...  Read more

Let Some Outsiders Govern the Family Business

By Ralph Ward |  Jan 1, 1999

A productive, tough-minded, independent board of directors is just the ticket for many family-owned businesses -- but unfortunately few ever get one. "It'...  Read more

Turn Your Directors into Floor Walkers

By Ralph Ward |  Jan 1, 1999

Directors walk the walk if they're on the board of Atlanta-based handyman giant Home Depot. The HD board sets itself a formal requirement that ea...  Read more

Tips for Board Benchmarking

By Ralph Ward |  Jan 1, 1999

Benchmarking is making its way out of corporate TQM programs and into the boardroom where it can help you develop your own best practices in corporate gov...  Read more

How Can I Adapt as My Market Changes?

By Steve Solomon |  Oct 15, 1998

Mark Tierney's company was barely up and running when his primary market all but collapsed. Tierney had left his job as chief executive of a subsid...  Read more

A White Knight Who Won't Quit

By Emily Esterson |  Sep 1, 1998

Stonyfield Farm makes and sells natural and organic yogurt, and that's what it's known for in the marketplace. But the company's president and CEO, Gary H...  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Avenger

By Steven Berglas |  Aug 1, 1998

An entrepreneur motivated by revenge may self-destruct when investors get involved in the business. Here are the warning signs that someone views everyone as...  Read more

Dream Weaver

By Jordan Ayan |  Jun 15, 1998

The president of Create-It! Inc. reviews MindMan--The Creative MindManager, a software product that helps groups organize the thoughts and ideas that occur d...  Read more

The Corporate Matchmaker

By Steven Berglas |  Jun 1, 1998

The agendas of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will almost always conflict. The secret to a healthy VC-entrepreneur relationship is to accept and mitig...  Read more

Going for Broke

By Edward O. Welles |  Jun 1, 1998

Harold McMaster, founder of Solar Cells, Inc., hopes to universalize solar energy, but has put off making a buck to take R D further. But will his ...  Read more

Are Your Information Systems Up to Speed?

By Karen Carney |  Jun 1, 1998

Can your company get and analyze good data? Do you have an effective way of disseminating anything you might learn? If not, your information systems are l...  Read more

When Is a Law Firm Not a Law Firm?

By D.M. Osborne |  May 1, 1998

Craig Johnson, founder of Venture Law Group, redefined what a law firm can do for a start-up by helping companies develop business plans, find financing, and...  Read more

When Peter Drucker Speaks

By Newt Gingrich |  Mar 1, 1998

In a review of Drucker's new book, "The World According to Peter Drucker," Speaker of the House Gingrich explains why Drucker is the most influential writer ...  Read more

All Dressed Up and No IPO

By Jerry Useem |  Feb 1, 1998

While going public can yield a huge payoff for many companies, it can be a disastrous undertaking for others. Here's why Wired magazine's IPO proved a stunni...  Read more