Loichinger Advantage

I’ve shared the planning practices of the president/CEO of QWANtify, a leading IT consulting firm, followed by my shared experiences and planning perspectives.  Today’s column will bring the strategic planning series to a close by establishing a roadmap for those of you who want to advance the focus and insights gained through your strategic planning journey.

To leverage benefits from the strategic planning process, understand what pieces you’ve already implemented, where you are in your journey, and what will be critical to advance in the coming year.  If you have started in the middle without laying the proper foundation, you may need to back-up before moving ahead.

Welcome to the second column on our strategic planning strategic planning series.  You have the right team assembled, with the appropriate executives invited.  You are ready to launch the strategic planning process.  Not so fast.  So much has been written about the topic it becomes difficult to remember the myths from realities.  Let us help you clarify myth from reality, and shatter the myths that have been perpetuated for far too long.

We have gotten along fine without a strategic plan &can’t afford to take our eye off the ball.

QWANtify Grows Through Intention and Insight

I often hear business leaders explaining how they feel caught between the preverbal rock and a hard place.  I not only understand, but feel their pain, as I am helping organizations with this dilemma, and have my own consulting firms to manage.  As our colleagues have said, these are interesting times.

A month ago, we turned the calendar page on a new year. By now, we have all read and considered countless suggestions on how best to resolve to change our lives, our outlooks and our waistlines.

Today let’s take a hard look at how we can change our businesses in one simple way: avoid the mistake we made last year and in every year before that: procrastination. Specifically, if all owners know that someday they’ll leave their companies, why then do they do nothing to plan for that day?