Market Effectiveness™ is about how well you service your marketplace and your customers. It includes how you create products and services, how you market, sell and service them and how you manage the product revenue lifecycle. Planning, measuring, and managing market effectiveness is …Read More

Staying competitive and relevant are two key issues on the minds of senior leaders and boards of directors. The rapid evolution of technology plays a pivotal role in addressing these two issues. To successfully navigate the digital landscape, leadership teams turn to digital technology consulting firms like Group50^® Consulting. They do so to …Read More

Market Effectiveness, a term used by Group50® Consulting, defines the business processes associated with serving customers. In every business, managing and optimizing these processes are critical to success. Manufacturing and distribution companies are especially challenged because there are many channels of distribution they must be effective at: Direct to Consumer (D2C), Bricks & Mortar and Business to Business (B2B). This article outlines …Read More

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am grateful to Dave Bookbinder for having me on his podcast: “Behind the Numbers” to discuss my book, but more importantly to discuss a simple approach to developing and implementing business strategy, which has yielded great results in dozens of companies over the last 10 years. Even if you have a strategic planning and implementation process …Read More

As leaders, we all know that good enough doesn’t cut it. But in today’s lean and remote organizations, teams tend to accept “Good Enough”, which checks the box so that they can move on to the next critical issue in the business. It is a potential trap that can lead to mediocrity and subpar performance.  It can create: …Read More

Introduction

Strategic planning is an essential process that organizations undertake to define their long-term goals, allocate resources effectively, and adapt to changing environments. As businesses and institutions navigate increasingly complex markets, most companies do not have the requisite skill sets to fully develop and implement a strategic plan.  This article provides a comprehensive guide to strategic planning, the role of strategic planning and management consultants and details their significance, responsibilities, skills required, and the strategic planning and execution process they follow.

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Productivity is down over the last two years and continuing to decline

• 66% of employees feel do not feel engaged.
• 80% of strategies don’t realize their intended value.
• 60% of CEO’s don’t believe their team does a good job of implementing strategy.

These are compelling numbers that all business leaders should take note of. These numbers are …Read More

Please join the west coast chapter of the International Association of Strategic Planners and I on the 19th of April where we will talk about how to apply the Business Hierarchy of Needs® framework to improve the results of developing and implementing strategy.

 

The presentation will be based on my recently published book: Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs®.

 

With the recent downturn in productivity across corporate America and the significant increase in remote work, Host Andrew Bartolotta sits down with Jim Gitney, CEO of Group50 Consulting and author of Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs, where Jim discusses ways to significantly increase employee engagement in the development and implementation of business strategy through his patented framework. …Read More

If you’ve ever had a strategic initiative fail at your organization and thought to yourself, “What am I doing wrong as a leader?” this episode is for you. The truth is, most leaders end up with several failed strategies under their belt. The trick is to stop making the same mistakes and lean into some best practices for strategic planning that actually work. There’s no one better to teach leaders how to build that foundation and grow through strategy than our latest guest. Jim Gitney, the Founder and CEO of Group50® Consulting has 45 years of corporate and consulting experience working with over 200 companies in guiding them toward double-digit top line and bottom line growth. Listen to the full conversation for more on the top mistakes business owners make when it comes to successful strategic initiatives, what the “Business Hierarchy of Needs®” is (and what CEOs can learn from it), the downsides of having too many goals, how to align compensation structures in a way that encourages forward motion on your strategic initiatives, and much more. Here’s a Glimpse of What You’ll Learn: …Read More