In this installment of Consulting Conversations, Hank Harris breakdown what you should know. Well, taking that backward, nobody needs one. The question is should you have one. The SWOT analysis is a forerunner of strategic planning. It's an acronym that sums up the first piece or first phase of y...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.Who's going to win: the company with the wrong culture for the market or the market? It's an old saying that in a fight between you and the world, you should put your bet on the world. The market will w...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.If you have a growing business, you should expect that's going to happen. The classic example is somebody who starts a small business; they have a bookkeeper. Ten to 15 years later, they have a very suc...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris answers the question in the latest installment of Consulting Conversations. Watch it now!We want to think that everybody that gets picked as a successor will be the right answer and successful in what they do, but there are times when it doesn't work out that wa...

Find out in the latest installment of Consulting Conversations from our Director of Consulting Hank Harris. Watch it now!I would say that that a big challenge in any closely held business is that we get close to our problems. And, it can be really, really hard sometimes to look at your business o...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris answers the questions in this episode of Consulting Conversations.Well, hopefully, what happens after you develop a plan is you implement it that's actually much harder than coming up with the plan.We'd love to hear from any private business hunt owner in North ...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris explains in this latest edition of Consulting Conversations.I would say, normally, the answer to that is quarterly. You could make the argument that you don't want the strategic plan to exist in a parallel universe to running your business, so you want to try to...

In this latest episode of Consulting Conversations, Director of Consulting Hank Harris explainsI don't believe there are any certifications that have to be had to be a consultant. Consultants are a broad term. I came up in management consulting, and it's always consulting to businesses. If you lo...

Director of Consulting Hank Harris answers the question in this installment of Consulting Conversations.The strategic planning process for most companies,...you might think of it in three phases.The first phase is going to be what's commonly called a situationalanalysis and sometimes people boil ...

Director of Consulting, Hank Harris, addresses this question in the latest Consulting Conversations episode. Watch it now!The short answer to that question is you should expect that your condition or concerns are improved or alleviated. In other words, a consultant, you know, interaction with you...