CORPORATE GROWTH

Discuss your organization, your customers, and their needs.
Review or develop your current mission statement, vision statement, and SMART objectives.
Consider your market, organizational, and product development, management, and/or improvement plans.
Evaluate your core functions of finance, marketing, and operations management.
Discuss your directional, control, and sustaining functions of strategic/general, competency, and innovation management.
Review your top products, services, and solutions; and your top three value propositions.
Consider external opportunities and threats facing your organization, as well as your internal strengths and weaknesses (conducting a conversational SWOT Analysis).
Consider your options around current versus new products and current versus new markets (using a classic Ansoff Matrix to guide our discussions).
Discuss key rivals, buyers, suppliers, substitutes, and new entrants (working through Porter's Five Forces).
Consider strategic implications and imperatives (and any implications for your mission and vision statements).
Make clear strategic recommendations about best next steps toward your original or revised SMART objectives.