Was talking with a friend of mine this week and he said that strategic planning has been deemphasized these last few years mainly due to the economic climate.  We have discussed this before (see Strategy, as we know it, is dead). Most companies are in a struggle to survive and had little time or resources [...]

Or at least that’s how the WSJ reported it yesterday. Years back when I was working in corporate strategy we used to have this yearly dance called strategic planning.  Every year we would fan out to all the business units, look at what they were doing and try to figure out what they needed to [...]