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Be more strategic – Stretch your strategy muscle

The recent “Be more strategic” workshop from Training - PM Forum took place on St George’s Day. This post summarises the key points raised by delegates – and lists their poll results and discussions. As such, it provides an additional learning resource to the delegates. So in this post on Read More

2024-05-02T14:26:28+01:00May 2, 2024|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Strategy|

Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

In early December we welcomed 15 delegates to a PM Forum “Be more strategic” workshop. The delegate aims, views and key takeaways are shown below. The workshop covered strategic thinking, business strategy and marketing and business development (MBD) strategy. We looked at case studies from professional services firms. From the Read More

Be more strategic – A metaphor: Analyse, join and align the dots

At the start of March, there was an online PM Forum workshop on “Being more strategic”. Delegates were from legal and accountancy firms with roles as varied as marketing, digital marketing, business development, PR and key accounts (executives, managers and a director). Below is a summary of the key themes Read More

2023-03-06T11:22:47+00:00March 6, 2023|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Strategy|

Future Marketing/BD Manager – Build your personal brand and increase your strategic contribution (December 2022)

Early in December we enjoyed an interactive and productive day at Taylor Wessing (Thank you for hosting!) for a day workshop on “Future Marketing/BD Manager” with PM Forum. This post was prepared for the delegates as a reminder of the key themes and an additional learning resource. Future Marketing/BD Manager – Read More

2022-12-14T17:06:33+00:00December 14, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Book review: Chaotics – The business of managing and marketing in the age of turbulence By Philip Kotler and John A Caslione (scenario planning)

Book review: Chaotics - The business of managing and marketing in the age of turbulence By Philip Kotler and John A Caslione (scenario planning). This review appeared in Professional Marketing magazine a while back. But I keep mentioning the book to people so thought I’d publish it here. This book about scenario planning Read More

2022-10-21T12:14:36+01:00July 14, 2011|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|
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