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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.

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Duke University undergrad prepares for BCG Interview Superday

Management Consulted

So what made you choose Duke for that weekend seminar as opposed to a different school, and what do you think about it? So when you’re in doubt, just go back to the profit metric and figure out how to improve profitability. Those are fine, but it doesn’t have to be that. Okay, great. So same kind of things there, right?

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Make Data a Cornerstone of Your Team

Harvard Business

This is the perfect chance to change the way you communicate to better highlight your changing strategy. Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on? Has the company decided to pursue a new business vertical based on data collected by the sales team in the field?

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