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Scott Bennett, Nations Financial Group ~ Cedar Rapids, IA

Doug's Four Decisions Workshop has allowed our company to focus on our top priorities for the year. With the use of the 1 page strategic plan, company and individual dashboards we are better able to track performance and measure results. For the first time we have a clear company goal with everyone working towards that common goal. We are extremely excited to continue working with Doug in the future.

Greg Mercurio ~ IFTI Independent Floor Testing & Inspection, Inc, Concord, CA

Daily Huddles are by far the best thing we've learned. Lots of our operations decisions have been made through the use of the daily huddle process. Having four daily huddles each day is a pain, yet it's the most productive and best thing that's happened to me as a manager.

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Tyna, Charge Team ~ JPMA

In 2013, in addition to growing sales dollars and market share, we cut our return beer rate (ROR) by over 35%. Nearly $600,000 less beer was double handled and brought back to the warehouse by your efforts. This improvement drove the revenue and gross margin numbers up, as well as helped considerably in reducing warehouse, merchandising, and delivery costs.

"Mike Schulte, VP Sales, Fleck Sales Company ~ Cedar Rapids, IA

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Strategy - What Are Your Core Capabilities? Play to Your Strengths

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Wed, Sep 19, 2018

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What are your business’ core capabilities?

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Strategy – How to Win?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 10, 2018

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Your businesses Top Line Revenue Growth is a direct result of your Strategy-Decisions.

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Strategy – Where to Play?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Sep 3, 2018

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What if your customer told you, “You are the leader, in fact, you don’t have any competitors for what you do and how you do it!”

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Strategy - What is Your Winning Aspiration?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 27, 2018

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Great strategy is making choices.

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Topics: Core Purpose, strategy, strategy decisions, Playing To Win, Your Winning Aspiration

STEP 3 OUTTHINKER PROCESS - EXPAND – Strategic Narratives

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Tue, Jul 24, 2018

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“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” ~ Napoleon Hill

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OUTTHINKER PROCESS STEP 2 – DISSECT (3 Leverage Points) Example

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 16, 2018

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Our last two blogs, The OUTTHINKER PROCESS – FIRST STEP (Example) and Calculate Your OUTthinker Score – The Assessment Re-Visited shared an example of my customers 1^st step in the Outthinker Process plus we revisited how the assessment to calculate your Outthinker Score with the 8 P’s.

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The OUTTHINKER PROCESS – FIRST STEP (Example)

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jul 5, 2018

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Last Tuesday one of my customers finished their last step in Kaihan Krippendorff’s, Outthinker Process. See the 5 steps of the Process in this picture/chart.

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Are Best Practices Dead?

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Feb 8, 2018

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Digital is taking over every aspect of business.

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Topics: best practices of growth companies, Best Business Practices, strategy decisions, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Outthinker Process, Digital Disruption, Speed

Disruptive Ideas – Mastery in Forecasting

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jan 8, 2018

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How do we expand our ability to make good decisions to create, disruptive innovation, ideas to give you a competitive advantage?

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Topics: strategy decisions, Adam Grant, Originals, OUTTHINK THE COMPETITION, Disruptive Strategies, Outthinker Process, Forecasting

Develop Disruptive Innovation – Step One: Generate Lots of Ideas

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Jan 4, 2018

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In How Originals Identify Innovative Ideas I promised to share ideas on how you can improve your batting average to generate innovative products and services for your business.

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Topics: strategy, Innovation Process, strategy decisions, Innovation, Adam Grant, Originals, Disruptive Strategies, Outthinker Process

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