Aligning CEO strategic planning with the innovation process. Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to connect the strategic planning of the CEO with the innovation strategy.

Consider these three elements of your innovation strategyt. Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that your innovation strategy should be be developed around cost, competition and customers.

What does strategy have to do with innovation? Walter Kiechel joins Jim Blasingame to make the connection between your strategic planning and the execution of an innovative culture.

Don't be naive about your strategic relationship with the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. Jim Blasingame helps small business CEOs understand that their interests are not the same as the CEOs of the big social media CEOs.

What should a small business CEO think about social media? Jim Blasingame talks about how a small business CEO should think about a social media strategy, and how it differs from social media execution.

Keep your business plan simple, like the recipe of a classic meal. Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to compare focusing on just three big picture elements of your business like a simple, classic recipe.

How to get and stay focused on your business.Peter Meyer joins Jim Blasingame to encourage you to identify the big elements of your business and focus on them as if through the lens of a camera.

Have you charted a course for the New Year? Bob Prosen joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the practice of identifying your major objectives for the New Year, with regard to finances, customers and people.

Ellen Rohr joins Jim Blasingame to explain that a phone call to your customers to thank them and tell them why you love working with them is a great way to ensure their business in the New Year, plus why being competitive isn't enough, you must be relevant as well.

Ellen Rohr joins Jim Blasingame to explain that a business plan is anything that helps you gain clarity about what you want out of your business, then puts aligned actions together to make that happen, plus getting your business plan ready for the New Year.