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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See How These Clients Avoided the 5 Failures in Strategic Planning

By Heyden Enochson

Leadership & Strategy
One of the most frequent questions we are asked is “How do we avoid the common failures to strategic planning?” The answer varies greatly based on where your organization is within...

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3 Steps to Making Strategic Decisions: How We Tuned into the Voice of the Customer to Redesign OnStrategy

By Heyden Enochson

Strategic Planning Applications
We exist to transform organizations by transforming the lives of people within them. Great strategy and the culture to execute it doesn’t come easy, but it’s the tried-and-true path to success....

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Strategic or Not? Get the downloadable flow chart template by Washoe County

By Heyden Enochson

Strategic Planning Process
Is this really strategic? Or can this be dealt with outside of the planning process? It’s a question we hear often, especially in organizations that have multiple departments supporting strategy execution....

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Creating Alignment is a Dance with Organized Chaos – A Lesson from Make-A-Wish

By Heyden Enochson

Communicating Strategy
The common misconception around strategic alignment is it’s created in a perfectly structured environment where all long-term objectives, actions, and priorities fall into their natural place and a plan just becomes...

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