Helping Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD Create One of America’s Safest Cities

By Heyden Enochson

Strategy Reviews
This week, we returned to Charlotte, North Carolina to facilitate the 2019 planning process for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD). We’re always struck by the thoughtful work and sessions with CMPD....

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Putting 2019 Strategic Planning Front-And-Center

By Heyden Enochson

Strategic Planning Process
With each passing day, we come closer to ringing in 2019. And while the continued focus for us is achieving the goals and priorities in their 2018 plan,...

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Sometimes Planning Needs to be Less Structured

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
As planning facilitators, we’re often the ones keeping the meeting structured, timely, and on-pace to accomplish our client’s goals. And while that is certainly valuable in strategic planning, we were recently...

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Driving the Growth of Tourism in Reno/Tahoe

By Heyden Enochson

Market-level Strategies
Understanding your market opportunities is foundational in any strategic planning process. It allows you to assess how you’re doing in the marketplace, determine where your greatest areas of improvement are, and...

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Preparing San Francisco for the Next Generation of Tech

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
As one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world, San Francisco is the frontline for Silicon Valley’s latest and greatest emerging technology. In a region that has given birth...

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How to Balance Strategy Reviews – How We Balanced Sailing, Sand, and Strategy

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
Strategy reviews are often approached with an innately serious tone and mood. And while reviews should be taken seriously and thoughtfully by your planning team, our own mid-year review reminded us...

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3 Tips from Clients Who’ve Hit the Action Planning Mile-Marker

By Heyden Enochson

Action Planning
As your team nears the finish line for completing your strategic plan, you might finally feel like you’ve finished the marathon of planning. But, as demonstrated by three of our recent...

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Quickly Relevel and Reorder Your Plan’s Goals

By Heyden Enochson

What We're Up To
One of the biggest reasons organizations embark on the strategic management process is to give their organization the knowledge, tools, and skillsets to create strategic agility to quickly adapt to change....

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3 Tactics to Strengthen Your Current State Analysis

By Heyden Enochson

Competitive Analysis
Our clients are certainly experts in their industries and have knowledge that should be considered important for assessing their current state, but how do we avoid too much ‘belly button gazing”...

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What are Competitive Advantages: Two Truths and A Myth

By Heyden Enochson

Competitive Advantages
Often during plan design, we see organizations poorly manage or simply overlook integrating their competitive advantages into their strategy. The reason many organizations overlook competitive advantages during strategy design boils down...

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