Preventive Medicine for your Strategy

Strategies and the plans crafted to implement them contain a lot of internal moving parts and external assumptions (i.e., bets) about the environment (i.e., markets and customers). It doesn’t take much for a strategic plan to fly off the rails.

Just as preventive medicine consistently practiced buys down a lot of health risk, a program of preventive medicine for your strategic plan can provide early warning of the symptoms that not all is well with your planned path to the future. Would you prefer to know in time to adapt….or accept irreversible outcomes?

The old saying is that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In a LinkedIn post, strategy consultant Jeroen Kraaijenbrink suggests 13 Signs Your Strategy is Failing.

Is Yours?