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 Strategy
  Strategy building is working at what the foundations might be like
while working on what you might want to build.

Sound Strategy Development, which keeps you in front of the best, needs an ability to innovate between foundation building and product and service building.

Toolkits like TRIZ provide a way to conceptualise the foundations and conceptualise the final building a bit at a time. Time invested in Strategy development pays in the harmony developed between the two.


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  Some points on building a Strategy - Culture, Climate, Business Analysis
  Now you have a strategy you need to invest in your best asset - your people.

You can teach them new things.

You can teach them how to think.

And you can teach them how to learn.

At Next Step we like to think we teach people how to learn how to think!
  How to gamble without taking risks!

Managing risk is level 4 Innovation. It can be called Gambling.

If you do not do level 4 and your competitors do, your whole business might be at risk.

This paper explores some of the issues on managing Gambling.
  Facilitation is about making difficult problems easier.

Allow us to facilitate your sessions and let you get on with owning and solving the problem.
  Software is available to assist innovation.

Beware - the software does not provides answers, only information and ideas.
You still need to do the mental work.
  Are you a Product or a Service Company?

TRIZ can be used to explore the value you have in being product or service oriented.

What are the real differences?

What would you really like to be?
  TRIZ and Managing a Business.

A simple explanation of how TRIZ realtes to logical thinking about any business.

Can you see your business is a specific model of a general business?

How can you explore how other general principles apply to managing a business?

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