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" Command Decisions"
Vision as a critical component of strategic planning.
" Real Options: Flexible Investment Decision-Making"
Real options is an alternative to the Discounted Cash Flow method of evaluating projected business investments.  Using techniques similar to options on the financial markets, investment decision-making takes into account a number of possible outcomes.

"Real Options: Using Financial Option Analysis for  Business Operations"
New analytic techniques enhance management flexibility

"Strategic Planning: Does it Enable or Encumber?"

Traditional long-range planning is no longer applicable because no one company can sustain a particular competitive advantage for very long. Instead, they must continually exploit a variety of constantly changing competitive advantages. Does this need for nimbleness make planning obsolete? No! In fact, it simply makes it more challenging. The successful company cannot afford to build a strategy around a predicted future, simply because the future is too unpredictable.

"Capital Planning: An Essential Element in Long Range Planning."
Analyzing what capital investments to make in company.

"Budgeting: Futility or Control?"
A discussion of the factors that cause resistance to budgeting. Elucidates the benefits of budgeting as a means of control, as a motivator, as a forecasting tool, and as a "model for success."

"Positioning for Growth."
A discussion of the factors that cause resistance to budgeting. Elucidates the benefits of budgeting as a means of control, as a motivator, as a forecasting tool, and as a "model for success."

"Strategic Marketing"
Continually formulating the future is the responsibility of management.

"The Planning Cycle: Plan for Success or Plan to Fail."
A step-by-step guide to the planning process.

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