To run a successful business, you must effectively get the word out about about your products and services. Successful marketing requires a winning strategy. Understanding marketing strategy ...

There is plenty of advice in the air as the Defense Department prepares its latest National Defense Strategy, the report formerly known as the Quadrennial Defense Review. Most of the advice concerns ...

Let's be honest. Most strategic business plans fail. There is a plethora of writing on the subject of why. My list of reasons is quite long, but I'll save that for another time. Let's focus on just ...

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By acknowledging the inherent antagonism between strategic planning and the structure and function of hospitals, and explicitly integrating ...

"The recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan are the blueprint for China's economic and social development over the next ...

There is widespread dissatisfaction with the existing strategy formulation process and resulting documents because of their perceived lack of prioritization and the disconnect between goals and ...

Strategies are shaped by the processes that produce them. If designed well, a strategy formulation process enables decisionmakers to evaluate the political, security, and budgetary environments, ...

Numerous times, I’ve heard executives say “my people just don’t get it” when referring to the execution of their strategy—or lack thereof. They had crafted a great, inspiring strategy for their ...

MOST organisations whose years follow the Gregorian Calendar are now in their last quarter of the year. This is a very critical period where the organisations look back on the journey travelled during ...