Strategy and Strategic Planning

Discover why strategy and strategic planning need to be forced apart so that they can serve different purposes in your organisation.

Strategic Risks

Learn how to recognise strategic risks, mitigate harm and exploit opportunities.

Learn how to envision the future for your strategy to inform your strategic planning.

Categorise your strategic risks so you can deal with them differently.

Score and compare strategic risks in a systematic and structured way.

Understand the activities and capabilities required to adapt to on-going strategic risks with agility and resilience.

Audit strategic agility in your organisation and create a practical action plan to build, track and test strategic agility as it develops and becomes embedded in routine ways of working.

Systematically audit strategic risks (covering the likelihood of both harm and opportunity), prioritise the risks you identify and then develop adaptation plans for the highest priority risks.

Discover the key principles of strategy mapping and then apply them to, firstly, the analysis of a written strategy and, secondly, the development and alignment of new elements of that strategy.

About the Author

Author of 'The Strategy Manual' and ' Core Values', Goal Atlas founder and Director, Mike Baxter, is a renowned strategy expert, keynote speaker and thought leader. He publishes regular articles on all aspects of strategy and strategic planning and frequently shares his ideas and expertise via the Strategy Distilled newsletter.

Free Resources

We believe strategy is for everyone. To help you DO strategy rather than just think about it, our models, frameworks and templates from 'The Strategy Manual' are released here under Creative Commons License. This means they are free for you to use in your presentations and strategy documentation.

Book Overview

'The Strategy Manual: A step-by-step guide to the transformational change of anything' draws on Mike's many years of expertise to deliver a practical handbook for anyone interested in the creation, management or governance of strategy.