Strategic planning fails 73% of the time within the first 90 days. The median cost is not the $40,000 spent on facilitation: it is the $280,000 in opportunity cost when a $2M initiative stalls because no one owns execution. The cause is structural: planning produces documents, not operating systems.
Strategic planning fails most small businesses because they borrow frameworks built for Fortune 500 organizations. The median company between $2M and $15M in revenue spends $18,000 annually on planning processes that produce binders nobody opens and goals nobody remembers by March. The cause is a fu
Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Workload: Can AI Actually Save Educators Time?
Across Australia and internationally, Departments of Education, School Associations, and individual schools and teachers are asking the same question of generative AI: can it solve the teacher workload problem? Over the last 18 months, I've seen literally hundreds of ideas discussing how AI can assist with everything from administrative tasks to classroom activities, communications with parents and community, and everything in between. Unfortunately, much of this advice has come from outside […]
Strategic planning isn’t done once and then forgotten about. It’s a continuous process.
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You know... let's just tear off the bandaid and admit that the vast majority of the #ai marketing promises are a lie, and the entire business community knows it. And I can pretty much prove it when it comes to corporate America:
If all of these businesses believed they would let go of 25% of their staff in the next five years, or 60% in ten, they NEVER would have started #RTO efforts. Even if they weren't on the AI train back then, they would not be renewing leases or building offices right now. They would all be trying to offload all corporate real estate as fast as possible to reduce expected losses, and encouraging full time remote work from anywhere in the country to encourage people to be FURTHER from offices to reduce risk of disgruntled employee action.
Since that isn't happening, for all of the noise the hucksters are making, we know that large-scale workforce reduction is not currently in the #strategicplanning for anyone.
Most strategy consulting content is written for Fortune 500 companies. The frameworks assume unlimited budgets, dedicated strategy teams, and 18-month implementation timelines. None of that applies to a company doing $2M in revenue with a leadership team of three. Small business strategy consulti
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