Association for Strategic Planning - NY Metro

David Wanetick, Managing Director at Incremental Advantage

aspny — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:05:57 +0000

At the August 19, 2009 – Association of Strategic Planning – NY Metro Chapter meeting, David Wanetick, Managing Director at Incremental Advantage does a presentation on negotiation strategies based on psychological and human behavior research. Here he is introducing his firm to the ASP group.

Devils Advocate Program from Incremental Advantage

aspny — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:03:04 +0000

At the August 19, 2009 – Association of Strategic Planning – NY Metro Chapter meeting, David Wanetick, Managing Director at Incremental Advantage describing the Devils Advocate program which he recommends helps strengthen a companies strategic plan.

Devil Advocate Program – How to Detect Weaknesses in a Strategic Plan

aspny — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:58:47 +0000

At the August 19, 2009 – Association of Strategic Planning – NY Metro Chapter meeting, David Wanetick, Managing Director of Incremental Advantage describes how weaknesses are revealed in a strategic plan through the Devils Advocate program.

Strategic Planning: the three tips for 2009 from the McKinsey Quarterly

aspny — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:44:51 +0000

Developing scenarios in greater depth, monitoring strategies more rigorously, and remaining focused on the long term will all help strategists boost the odds of creating plans that can lead their companies through the turbulence.

APRIL 2009 • Renée Dye, Olivier Sibony, and S. Patrick Viguerie

Dr dt ogilvie Q&A at ASP-NY Metro meeting – 5/20/2009

aspny — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:09:08 +0000

These videos are parts 1-3 of the Q and A session with Dr. dt ogilvie at the Association of Strategic Planning / NY Metro chapter meeting on 5/20/09.

Dr dt ogilvie is intelligent, impressive, and interesting. Her take on strategy and how leaders run businesses is a mix of behaviorial psychology with good old common sense.

A few of Dr dt ogilvies ideas from her presentation:

“Creativity is the succession of a series of failures, failures happen when you give up.”

“learn to use Future Perfect Thinking – Karl E Weick”

“Need to have courage to try something new – different practices, different ways, create a culture of creativity, encourage employees to come up with new ideas, every idea should be rewarded, let employees implement ideas without management, the more ideas the bettter the ideas you can come up with, be adaptable-let people try things

Practical Tip from DT

“Everyday – think about how can I do my business better. With your team, everyday give them a puzzle to work on where they have to use the creative part of their day”

Steve Ramirez / ASP-NY Metro

Closing the gap between strategy and execution: making hard choices

aspny — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:20:04 +0000

Linear view of strategy doesn’t work, how do we get to an iterative view of strategy. Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice

Steve Ramirez / ASP NY

Successful Leadership – How would you know?

aspny — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:11:54 +0000

Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean & Professor of Management Practice a the London School of Business has written an article on how leadership should be measured and how to recognize it. Excellent follow-up to our discussion at the Association of Strategic Planning / NY Metro Chapter meeting.

Successful Leadership – how would you know? (click here for the article)

Steve Ramirez – ASP NY

Barbara Theurkauf – Strategic DNA: Bringin Business Strategy to Life

aspny — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:13:51 +0000

Barbara Theurkauf spoke to the NY Metro chapter of the Association of Strategic Planning on February 19, 2009. Barbara is the President of Theurkauf Associates based in Hartford, CT. She described to us the Strategic DNA process in Lawerence Hobbs book of the same title which begins with vision formulation through vision implementation. She is Mr.Hobbs North American associate and uses this process with all of her clients. She was clearly the real deal and had some timely advice for corporate leaders, STOP DOING THINGS, stop those projects and activities that no longer support your corporate strategy. Watch the posted video to get a glance at the kind of advice Barbara gives her views on leadership, strategy and vision.

Barbara Theurkauf – Introducing Strategic DNA

Barbara Theurkauf – Dialogue with Association of Strategic Planning Members

These are short videos that give you a glimpse at what we do at the Association of Strategic Planning – NY Metro Chapter. Come join us in person at our next meeting. To learn more visit www.strategyplus.org

Steve Ramirez – ASPNY

Strategic Thinking, Planning and Execution: 21st Century Best Practices – Stephen Haines, Haines Center for Strategic Management

aspny — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:06:13 +0000

Stephen Haines of the Haines Centre for Strategic Management presented to the NY Metro Chapter on September 23rd, 2008 on “Reinventing Strategic Planning to Deliver Customer Value” was a 90 minute discussion on the challenges and best practices that his colleagues are finding around the world with regards to strategic planning. With offices and clients in 20 countries, his firm collects data on what works or fails in the practice of strategy. The following are excerpts from the presentation that came about at the first NY Metro chapter meeting.

He started us off by giving us his definition for strategic planning, a desire for change and how it is communicated with the primary job of leaders being implementing planning and change. The next thing you need to think about are the desired outcomes-results. Is it higher profits? Enhanced market share? Change to employee culture? Mr. Haines quoted Stephen Coveys 2nd habit from his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “Begin with the end in mind”.

He emphasized how great leaders can take complexity and make it simple or easy for everyone to understand. This supported his definition for success = speed, clarity, simplicity. Organizations often fail due to a lack of understanding that a single, one time intervention won’t change much. It only results in a short term fix. “Real change requires multiple strategies focused on clear outcomes” OD Practitioner, May 2007.

Here is a short excerpt from the Haines Centre website that describes the Systems Thinking approach he has developed;

Strategic Thinking and Systems Thinking is based on the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, the father of our Systems Thinking Approach®. His pioneering work in forming The Society for General Systems Research conceived the Science of Systems Thinking as a Unity of Sciences.

It is directly applicable to the way all human beings, teams and organizations function, much as natural systems do. Underlying these systems are complexities (represented in our studies by the Rubiks Cube) that have, at their heart, simple, fundamental foundations.

By grasping the fundamentals and essence of how an organization works, as a system within a set of larger systems, it is possible to work through the complexity and arrive at real, effective solutions to difficult individual, business or organizational problems. In The Systems Thinking Approach®, we see this as “Simplicity on the Far Side of Complexity”.

The following link is an audio link to a presentation that Stephen Haines did on Enterprise Wide Change - Leading Enterprise Wide Change

The presentation he did for us at the NY Chapter is worth a view and available for members of the Association of Strategic Planning at www.strategyplus.org

Stephen G. Haines, founder and CEO of Haines Centre International and its four Haines Companies including his publishing companion, Systems Thinking Press, based in San Diego, CA, Steve is the world’s foremost authority, leader and speaker in The Systems Thinking Approach™ to the field of Strategic Management (Planning – People – Leadership – Change – Customer Value). His website is http://www.stephenhaines.com/

Steve Ramirez – ASPNY

Strategic Intuition – Dr. William Duggan – Columbia University

aspny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:01:44 +0000

Columbia professor Dr. William Duggan spoke to our members about his findings on innovation and strategic planning on 10/15/2008 at our monthly meeting of the Association for Strategic Planning – NY Metro chapter. He believed that the best and most innovative ideas we come up with are while we are engaged in mundane activities (showering, cleaning dishes, exercising, etc), but finds it hard to believe that corporate groups insist on setting up a brain storming session to come up with innovative ideas, “O.K. everyone, settle down, it’s 3:30pm and we need to start brain storming on how to come up with new and exciting products that will show the market how innovative we are”. Doesn’t exactly make sense to him and he started to convince some of us that it did seem like a strange practice. In his book, Strategic Intuition: The Key to Innovation he uses examples about Apple, Google and even Napolean to describe how “great artists steal” in order to innovate and eventually take over the world. Ideas are all around us but we need to be at such peace within our mind in order to be able to take in all of the ideas that are out there and be able to put them in an order that would create the next IPod or killer internet application. Take a look at the video to get an idea what it is all about or visit his website to order the book…. http://columbiapress.typepad.com/strategic_intuition/

Steve Ramirez – ASP NYC