Planning

Marketing planning – Are you seaweed or a limpet?

Last week, I had the good fortune to spend the morning with some bright young professional services marketing folk at a workshop entitled “Marketing and Business Development Planning in a nutshell”. We acknowledged that whilst marketers needed detailed marketing and BD plans, fee-earners only needed a short, sharp one page summary Read More

2013-08-09T19:31:19+01:00September 19, 2012|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Strategy|

Strategy and scenario planning: Blowing the cobwebs off your mind workshop (with Allen & Overy)

I was delighted to be asked to join a group of leading consultants and academics by Laurie Young, Dr Wendy Schultz and Gill Ringland of SAMI Consulting last week to explore techniques for scenario planning both to help develop more robust strategies and to increase engagement in the strategic process. Read More

Strategy and scenario planning: Blowing the cobwebs off your mind workshop (with Allen & Overy)

I was delighted to be asked to join a group of leading consultants and academics by Laurie Young, Dr Wendy Schultz and Gill Ringland of SAMI Consulting last week to explore techniques for scenario planning both to help develop more robust strategies and to increase engagement in the strategic process. Read More

MBA Refresher – Pricing, Innovation, Leadership and Technology

AMBA (Association of MBAs) puts on great regular events for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and amazingly they are mostly free to members. Last year’s MBA refresher (http://kimtasso.com/association-of-mbas-refresher-event-banks-innovation-entrepreneurs-and-coaching) was excellent so I was excited when I arrived at Imperial College on 4th September. Here’s a summary of what was covered. Pricing to Read More

2013-08-09T19:20:38+01:00September 9, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

McKinsey’s “Managing the strategy journey” says spend more time on strategy

An interesting paper from the masters of strategy arrived earlier this month. The essence of their previous argument was that “the only way to set strategy effectively during uncertain times was to bring together, much more frequently, the members of the top team, who were uniquely positioned to surface critical Read More

2024-04-16T21:04:31+01:00August 2, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Strategy|
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