Not as easy as you think, A SWOT Analysis

In a past blog of mine, Growing your Company thru SOAR, I discussed the uses of SWOT (Strength-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) outside the regular marketing realm and added some other areas as throughout the organization and also in Key Account Management. I also alluded to the regular practice of using SWOT simply as a 4-quadrant matrix that most Read More …

Growing Your Company thru SOAR

We are all familiar with SWOT – Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.  Few of us have not experienced creating one; it is sort marketing101 and even Business Planning101. It is effective and often used tool. What you put into it, is what you will get out of it. I challenge the use of SWOT occasionally, Read More …

Developing a Lean A3 Marketing Plan

  Creating a marketing plan on an A3, or a single sheet of paper in not much of a novelty. However, if you think for a moment about A3 reports and the traditional Lean Problems Solving A3, you will see a similarity on how I have organized the A3 Marketing Plan. In A3 Problem Solving, Read More …