Create a Path to Get There: Refine and Decide Post 10 in our 12-week series on Creating a Strategy. It’s hard to believe it’s already week 10 of our 12-week series. You’ve come so far from where we started. You’ve looked at where you currently are, explored of what might…

Create a Path to Get There- Look, Listen and Learn Post 9 in our 12-week series on Creating a Strategy You’re so close to completing your strategy — can you feel it? This week is filled with exploration and learning. Enjoy! Look, Listen and Learn You must now take your top priorities from last…

Why Weak Signals Matter The future is unknown, but it’s coming. And it’s possible to see and prepare for. How? Look for strategic inflection points. Monitor them. Prepare for them, and then take action when (and if) the time is right. “A strategic inflection point is a change in the business environment that dramatically shifts some element of your activities, throwing certain ‘taken-for-granted’ assumptions into…

Create a Path to Get There: Identify Your Priorities Post 8 in our 12-week series on Creating a Strategy Last week’s review and reflection have us poised to dive into the last and most crucial part of creating a strategy: making it real. Once you know where you are and…

An unbeatable weapon in business and CX This week, we have a bonus newsletter from Joe Williams. Joe is a Design and Experience leader focused on understanding people’s problems, fostering partnerships, and delivering cross-channel solutions that make a real difference to consumers. Introduction Collaboration is an essential element of any successful…

Utilizing the AFTER Model — The Problem When you work in a discovery-driven and evidence-guided manner, you are always learning, exploring, and testing. It’s iterative; things change. You’re always learning and evolving. This can make communication and maintaining alignment a challenge. Slide decks with lots of arrows, circles, or nebulous shapes that we point to and say…

Review and Reflect This is week 7 of 12 in our series Creating a Strategy. This week, we take a short pause to reflect. Six weeks ago, we started and focused on where you are today. This looked at your unique value proposition, your current customers, your current market, your competition, current challenges, and your initial ideas and aspirations. …

Decide Where You Want to Go: Narrow and Focus It’s week 6 in this 12-week series on Creating a Strategy. You’re halfway through. Last week’s focus was on Ideation. Going big, bold, and broad to consider many possibilities. …

The numbers-loving sidekick to your strategic plan This week we break in our Tuesday Design Thinking for All newsletter cycle to bring you a Friday feature. Today’s newsletter features Mike Anderson from Upstream Consulting. Check it out: At Design Thinking for All, we talk a lot about strategy and strategic…