Find Your Next: Using the Business Genome Approach to Find Your Company’s Next Competitive Edge

A New Game Plan for Planning 2013

October 26, 2012

Here is an excerpt from a recent blog post by Andrea Kates in which she explains why the SWOT analysis (of Strengths, Weaknesses/Limitations, Opportunities, and Threats) is inadequate to the challenges that await in 2013 and beyond. To read the…

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“The Steve Jobs Diet”: 10 Essential Business Takeaways

August 14, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from one of Andrea Kates‘s blog posts. To read the complete post and check out other resources, please click here. *     *     * Every time I meet an especially fit person,…

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The Power of Your “Next”

January 30, 2012

As she explains in her brilliant book, Find Your Next: Using the Business Genome Approach to Find Your Company’s Next Competitive Edge (McGraw-Hill, 2012), Andrea Kates defines an organization’s or an individual’s “next” as the result of a four-stage process:…

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