And yes, brand strategy is that simple. ‘A’ is where you are now and ‘B’ is where you want your brand to be – your brand objective. The bit in between is not strategy, it’s the tactics you use to reach your objective. Okay, the...
A strategy is not a weighty document. It is a single outline of an objective and the means of achieving it. There may be a lot of work behind it – researching, thinking and planning. However, the strategy in itself should be all that hard work filtered down into...
There is a lot of confusion about the difference between strategy and tactics, and it is important for anybody involved in business planning to be clear about them. Strategy is about the identification of the overall business objective and the route or plan to get...
Absolutely! Card sorting comes from a technique used by trainers and coaches and is a great discipline for helping people think about their business. Business planning can be quite daunting when faced with a blank sheet of paper, the cards give not only a starting...
Cards are great tools for stimulating ideas and getting over that awful ‘blank sheet of paper’ moment, but once you have worked out a great plan you need to remember it and it may not be convenient to leave all the cards spread out on the table ( you may...
We’ve tried to keep the cards as flexible as possible and if you want to group tasks we think it is easiest to create your own. For example you may want to group tasks by function – perhaps finance, marketing, sales – whereas somebody else may want...
