With 2010 looming and the importance of approaching the year with creative business and competitive options, here are links to a variety of tools to help if you're under the gun to get a successful plan completed.
A Foundation on Strategic Thinking
Creating a Strategic Focus
- Steps to Re-evaluate and Focus on Important Elements in Your Business
- Better Understanding What's Strategic in Your Business
Contingency Planning
- Thoughts on Dealing with Uncertainty
- Steps to Deal with Planning Amid Uncertainty
- Quickly Developing Options When Your Current Plan Isn't Working
- Having to "Wing" Your Strategy Because of Uncertainty
Updating Your Current Plan
- Re-checking Your Marketing Plan for Completeness
- Reviewing and Modifying Your Strategic Direction
- Updating a Marketing Plan Under Tight Resources
Implementing Specific Strategic Thrusts
- Generating New Ideas When You Need Them
- When A More Aggressive Competitive Strategy Is Needed
- You're Fighting an Uphill Battle and Need a Contrarian Strategy
- Developing a Low-Investment Marketing Strategy
- You Have a Turnaround to Fix
Wrapping Up with a Smile on Your Face
Additionally, Trendwatching.com has released its briefing on "10 Crucial Consumer Trends for 2010" covering impacts arising from (among other things):
- Urbanization
- Fragmentation in what constitutes luxury
- Increasingly complex online presences
- A push for mass IRL interactions emanating from online networks
There are certainly other Brainzooming articles touching on these planning topics, but ideally this short list will get you jump started for current planning efforts you have to complete. - Mike Brown
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