I was facilitating a Strategic Planning Kick-Off meeting. The meeting was a transition meeting. Therefore, the client was being transitioned to me from the set-up-team so I could take the Business Strategist Lead. As I reflect on the meeting and the dialogue we had, I started to […]
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It is not often that I write about numbers. Why, because some professionals find it boring and want to nod off at the mention of numbers, while others simply say, well my numbers are giving to me by someone else. Here’s the thing, you may not create […]
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Recently I was having breakfast with a CEO of a ½ billion dollar annual revenue resource company. He was telling me how they had a strategic planning session with a former executive where they mapped out their plans for the next five years. As with most companies, […]
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Recently I wrote about the importance of communications and having a common stakeholder language. From a strategy insight perspective this is extremely important. Definitions and a common language help keep people on track so they move things forward. Often I have to tell my stakeholders what the terms […]
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There are times when a business analyst is asked to step up and become a strategic business analyst, effectively guiding the strategic facilitation process. Strategic facilitation is focused on the skill and art of guiding a process to solve business problems or leverage opportunities at the enterprise […]
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While visiting a few friends at a cool retro music shop I found an original 1985 vinyl version of the Back to the Future sound track. It brought us all fond memories of being back in that day where we could all state what we were doing […]
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