PREPARE YOUR TEAM FOR strategic planning
MAP TOOLS: Strategic Planning's Decision Sequence
The MAP TOOLS Framework helps planning teams define their environment, uncover mission-driven opportunities, and pinpoint the strategic leverage that drives mission impact.
Unlock Strategic Leverage
The MAP TOOLS Framework helps planning teams align their thinking about strategy concepts and processes. It builds each decision step on the previous step’s analysis, compounding the value as it progresses.
Define the Landscape
Identify assets: the strengths=and resources that create capabilities.
Acknowledge pressures: the weaknesses and threats that create risk.
Build the Pathway
Set strategic performance targets, identify opportunities, investigate obstacles, uncover leverage, and choose high-impact strategies.
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Meet the Author
Sam DeBord has advised organizations and led strategy work across industries and continents as a management consultant, brokerage executive, technology advisor, and CEO of the Real Estate Standards Organization. He authored the Working with Real Estate Data business course series and has written for numerous news and trade publications.
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More of Sam's Work
Sam DeBord is the author of the Working with Real Estate Data business courses, including an American and Canadian version as well as a French-Canadian translation in the works. This course provides a RED-B designation for graduates. RESO also offers a RED-T technical course.