In This Issue:
Outsourcing: Menace or Gold Mine?
Simplified Strategic Planning Seminars
Elements of Innovation
Questions & Answers
Strategic Planning Resources

October - Featured Article
Outsourcing: Menace or Gold Mine?

Robert Bradford examines the pitfalls and opportunities in the current trend towards outsourcing, along with strategies for profitably adapting to the changes brought on by outsourcing in your industry.

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October - Seminars
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October - Simplified Strategic Planning Book
Elements of Innovation
How to Achieve Innovation in Mid-size and Smaller Companies
By J. Peter Duncan (editor), with Thomas E. Ambler, M. Dana Baldwin, Robert W. Bradford and Denise A. Harrison.

While creativity is essential to innovation, it is not the whole story. Many creative ideas have failed to produce innovation because the company did not have in place a process to capture and develop these ideas into something that brought the idea to fruition in the market. Thus, you will find these articles address both how to generate the creative spark that is the seed of innovation, as well as the process of innovation that is the tree that grows from the seed.

  
 
October - Strategic Planning Q & A
Questions & Answers

This column is intended to answer common questions related to strategic planning and strategy in general. In each issue we will answer questions posed by seminar attendees, our clients and our readers. Please send your questions to Elizabeth Tidd, E-mail: simplifiedstrategicplanning@cssp.com ~ Mail: CSSP, Inc. P.O. Box 851 Ann Arbor, Michigan 06890-0851 ~ Fax: 203-255-9191.

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October - Strategic Planning Resources
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