A large number of books have been written about and strategic planning, capture planning, proposal management, change management and pricing strategies.  Some are truly unique and innovative, while others can be hopelessly simple minded or clear rip-offs of previous work. There is always a new prescription, a new methodology being pushed as the greatest thing since ….

We have decades of experience and have used many tools and recipes – some old, some new and some hybrids. This is our business space – we can select the perfect approaches for your unique issue.

We maintain our “Strategists Cookbook” with over 100 summaries of tools, techniques and methodologies spanning over 450 pages at last count. This is a continuous work in process, with lessons learned and new insights added regularly.

None of these tools will give you a ready-to-go strategy, and none will spit out your corporate vision. Generally these tools either give you distance so that you can objectively view a situation, or they clarify data and positioning to enable you to make informed decisions. Many provide proven processes for facilitation and team leadership. They represent current best practices and proven approaches that work, despite the fact that some are decades old and some are very recent. Often we use them as templates to create a unique solution tailored to specific client needs.

We do not publish the Cookbook and it is not for sale. We would be happy to show you a copy, and flip through the sections together to explore the breadth of tools available to you. Frequently, we collaborate with clients to merge tools and tailor tools and methodologies to their unique needs.

We have written about some of what we have learned in our Neural Net Blog.

We advocate continuous planning and environmental scanning. Swapping out tools and methodologies as you cycle thru your planning process has the effect of both providing some relief and intellectual stimulation for the strategist and giving exposure to subtly different templates and approaches that can only improve your work.

Ask us about the Strategists Cookbook.