Who is Bill Gaw?

And, why should we
listen to him?

Contact Us


strategic planning model

Strategic Planning Training

Do you want to exceed personal and company expectation and reach your
full growth and earning potentials?

"If so, you've come to the right place. Here you will be
presented an opportunity to take an action that
could change your life and your company's
bottom line. I Guarantee it!"         
                                                                   Bill Gaw


privacy policy

Home

Excel Templates for 
Balanced Scorecard and Strategic Planning

 


Are you concerned about job related stress? 
Are you troubled by unrealistic expectations?
 Are you worried about your company's future?

Is your day-to-day stress level getting too high?

If so, you've come to the right place. Here you'll find cost-effective, "win-win," strategic planning training to help
you and your company reach their full growth
and earning potentials while transforming
your work into fun again.  


 Do you want to optimize personal and company success? If so... you need to identify and master the basics of your business and profession. Many historic, recurring day-to-day problems (perhaps the same problems that plague your operation) can be permanently eliminated by a tenacious execution of Bill Gaw's  strategic planning training.

"We must constantly retool ourselves, become
 perpetual students, or we risk becoming obsolete."
                                                                        Price Pritchett

If you've ever said, "There must be a better way." 
... there is, and it's not more computerization!

A manufacturer's success is directly related to how well it masters the basics of strategic planning and tactical execution. These BASICS provide the foundation for optimizing system and process results. Without a tenacious execution of these BASICS, there's no way a company will reach its full growth and earnings potentials. EVER!

It's the Basics, Friend!


To listen to Bill Gaw's brief audio presentation 
click here---> It's the BASICS, friend!

 NetXpression needs to run active content in
Internet Explorer to display properly.

I realize the word "BASICS " is not very sexy. But it is a very important thing to understand. 


Many years ago Vince Lombardi led the Green Bay Packers football team to unprecedented success by having an almost obsessive focus on doing the BASICS very well. 

It’s amazing how many individuals and companies have great visions yet fail to achieve their full growth and earning potentials. They're a lot like the Green Bay Packer's football team before the arrival of Vince Lombardi... all the potential in the world but with no focus on executing the basics of their profession. 

The fact is, the basics of strategic planning... the things that serve as a solid foundation for growing and enduring success have not changed since before I was born... and won't change after you're dust.

It's tempting to think that they do... that the introduction of a new change initiatives like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relations Management, (CRM) and Six Sigma can change the basics.

I understand the temptation.

I can only caution against it, and invite you --- urge you --- to be a serious student of history in both the evolution and revolution in manufacturing.

Mastering the proven basics of what has worked in the past will give you the foundation needed to predict what will work today... and tomorrow!  

Mastering of Bill's strategic planning basics can help you and your company reach their full growth and earnings potentials. Best of all, work will become fun again.    

 "The more you know how to do, and 
the better you do it, the more valuable you become."
                                                                             Price Pritchett

  • Are you tired of factory chaos producing customer problems?

  • Do you want to transform visions into reality

  • Do you desire to earn "Supplier of Choice" contracts?

  • Do you want to create a fun working environment?

  • Do you want to exceed strategic objectives?

  • Does your company want to increase speed, improve 
    quality while reducing operating costs?

  • Need to  implement lean manufacturing solutions

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you no doubt will find value for whatever time you spend reviewing the material found on this Web page. If you are in search of a better way to run your business, you have come to the right place. Here you will find Bill Gaw's e-Tutorial,  "The 10-BASICS of Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution." 10-BASICS to transforming visions into reality... 10-BASICS to proactive solutions that eliminate costly business chaos and produce world class customer satisfaction... 10-BASICS for exceeding bottom line expectations.

The Strategic Planning, Back-to-Basics,
Powerpoint® Plus, e-Training Package

Featuring: Bill Gaw's e-Tutorial, "The 10-Basics of
Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution"

Self-Paced Learning ... Featuring:

What will you get when you order the Strategic Planning e-Training Package? You will have access to the strategic planning principals and techniques that companies around the globe use every day to increase sales and productivity and earn more profits. Part of what you will receive includes …

An overview of the strategic management process with some interesting observations as to why it is failing to deliver business performance and financial results as promised.

    • Learn the truth about strategic planning models and execution weaknesses that could be hurting your bottom line.

World-class graphics that clearly demonstrate strategic management process  "how to" and include expert commentary explaining the techniques. All presented in 203 reproducible PowerPoint® colored slides.

    • These slides expedite learning by combining the power of a seminar with the option to learn at your own pace.

A Case Study about how one company successfully implemented their strategic management process and turned a marginally successful product line into a huge winner.

    • No general theory here. You will review the real world effects of strategic planning and tactical execution and better understand how it can help your teams achieve greater bottom line contributions.

The Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution e-Tutorial contains powerful, real-world strategic management process experiences presented via 205 professional quality reproducible PowerPoint® colored training slides. These slides are made even more powerful with expert "been there, done that" strategic planning explanations and comments. It is by far the best strategic management process training aid you can give your business teams. The benefits to you and your teams can be enormous. For example, the tutorial will help them:

  • Create and implement a winning strategic plan

  • Transform the company vision into reality

  • Develop a motivational balanced scorecard that ties directly to profit margins and bottom line performance.

  • Employ "quick hitting" kaizen to implement tactical plans

  • Speed improvements in quality, on-time deliveries, customer satisfaction and profit margins.

  • Implement a company-employee "Win-Win" strategic planning learning process

  • Optimize strategic planning models

  • Move business paradigm from "firefighting" to proactive problem solving

  • Optimize results from lean manufacturing process

And, it's the "how to" that really makes a difference.

Most training materials today are Adobe PDF files... an e-book presentation with little or no useable training materials. Bill Gaw's e-tutorial on the other hand includes powerful, PowerPoint® graphics, "plus" annotated note pages with explanations, and "lessons learned" by a "been there, done that" professional. A  value added, e-learning experience on "how to" design, implement and deploy strategic planning initiatives for personal and company success.


One of our customers said it even better than we can:

"Bill Gaw's e-learning is focused on the "how to." Unlike other training materials that tell you only what you need to do... Bill's training presents what you need to do and then he shows you how to do it."

                                T.J. Imholts, VP Operations, Adstore Inc.

 

Strategic Planning, Back-to-Basics,
PowerPoint® Plus, e-Training Package  

Objective: Provide cost-effective, self-paced e-learning for
                 anyone/everyone... anywhere... anytime.

Purpose:   Make available strategic planning knowledge without the
                 high cost of seminars, travel expenses, and time away 
                 from the job.

Benefits:   Competitive knowledge to help you and your company: 

  • Transform company's vision into reality

  • Optimize strategic planning model

  • Reduce the number of customer complaints

  • Eliminate the high cost of factory chaos 

  • Reach your full growth and earnings potential

  • Earn "supplier of choice" contracts 

  • Exceed bottom line expectations.

Our mission is to provide you with a strategic management process and best practices essential to anyone in pursuit of world class performance ... information that will help your people:

  • Become  problem solvers not finger pointers 

  • Transform their work environment from drudgery to fun

  • Minimize their day-to-day stress level

  • Identify and master basics of Strategic Planning

  • Optimize their execution of tactical plans

  • Optimize strategic planning model

  • Gain well deserved recognition and rewards

If your business team is in the process of developing and/or implementing a strategic plan, this is a must-have e-training package. The strategic management process uncovers proven, effective tools and techniques that could boost their profit margin and bottom line improvement efforts to a higher level than you ever thought possible.

If your company has never developed nor deployed a strategic plan, now is the time to do it. To remain competitive in the 21st century demands it. This Strategic Planning e-Training Package can be your "bible" and roadmap for successful strategic planning and the implementation of competitive strategies, objectives and critical success targets.   

Are you tired of the costly strategic planning "lack of effective execution" syndrome and want to break that cycle? There is good news for you. This Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution e-Tutorial is a highly effective training aid for initiating your successful strategic management process. Instituting such a program will help your team gain control of critical success targets and put an end to dead-end strategic planning. Best of all, you can order your training package risk free. More details are below.

"Defend your career by developing a better package 
of knowledge and skills than the next person."
                                                                   Price Pritchett


Another of our customers saying better than we can...

"This training package is fantastic, a real-world, practical approach to strategic planning. Anyone who is seeking ways to improve the execution of the company's strategic plan will find them in this training package."

                    Douglas J. Morgan, President & CEO,
                                 Performance Strategies, INC.

 

Who Are Our Customers?

Our customer list speaks for itself. These companies are serious, as we know you are, about optimizing business effectiveness and improving their bottom line. Below is a partial list of the 1045 companies currently using Mr. Gaw's training materials in their pursuit of world class individual and company performance:

Johnson and Johnson   

Honeywell

Motorola

Local Government CSB 

St. Jude Medical Inc.

Pitney Bowes

Oakley, Inc.       

Office Depot

Grand Casino Mille  

Cannon Instrument Company

Johnson Controls, Inc.               

Rent-it-Systems Limited

Parker Hannifin Corporation         

A. O. Smith

Maxwell Technologies            

Forward Sports, LTD

Federal-Mogul Ignition

HEC Group

TRW Corporation        

Siemans Energy & Automation     

Philips Medical Systems 

HP de Mexico

Volvo Construction Equipment

Dana Corporation

Duke University 

Vishey

Novartis Nutrition 

Loyalist College

These companies have discovered that Bill's basics work. They study and apply these basics every day to skyrocket business performance and improve their bottom line. We invite you to join them and experience for yourself the incredible benefits and peace of mind that the 10-Basics of Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution.

Here's our best offer... EVER!

The Strategic Planning, Back-to-Basics,
Powerpoint® Plus, e-Training Package

Featuring: Bill Gaw's e-Tutorial, "The 10-Basics of
Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution"

So much more than the competition...
and, at a 56% savings for website visitors!

To help you realize the revolutionary benefits of this e-training package and achieve world class results even faster, we have a very special offer for you.

First, we've reduced the price of Bill Gaw's e-tutorial, The 10-Basics of Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution" from our bookstore price of $497.00 to $395.00.

And second, to help you optimize your strategic planning success, we will include with your e-Tutorial, five of our popular e-training modules:

e-Training Module No. 1.  To help your company upgrade business processes to eliminate non-value-added costs and optimize customer responsiveness and satisfaction:

  • CD, Value Stream Mapping Training Module - Bill Gaw's Value Stream Mapping Training Module includes 51-powerful, PowerPoint® graphics, "plus" annotated note pages with explanations, and "lessons learned."

e-Training Module No. 2.  To help everyone discover creative  ideas, insights, and proactive solutions that create and maintain a company's competitive edge:

  • CD,  Thinking Outside the Box Principles - Thinking-Outside-the- Box 
    skills are required by everybody. Each and everyone needs to continuously challenge and expand their ways of thinking to enhance personal and business success.

e-Training Module No. 3.  To help transform employee status quo paradigm into champions of  continuous improvement:

  • CD, Lean Manufacturing Training Module -  This training module will help optimize your production improvement efforts. Remember, there is no status quo... your are either winning or losing and this training will make sure you are winning.

e-Training Module No. 4.  To help you improve the quality of your suppliers'  "as received" products.

  • CD, Total Quality Tool Kit - Provides an interactive ISO 9001 checklist and quality manual and procedures to jump-start or re-ignite a supplier's total quality management initiative. Provides a total quality management roadmap to optimize prior quality efforts and maintain a focus on quality improvements.

e-Training Module No. 5.  To help transform MRP supporters into lean manufacturing champions:

  • CD, Digitized Push vs. Pull Video -  A classic, humorous video comparing  "Push vs. Pull" factory simulation exercises. This is the famous HP video that demonstrates "one-piece-flow,  stockless production, and cycle time management. (Priceless)

Bonus Number 1.  To help you initiate self-directed, win-win, on-site training and education:

  • Train the Trainer Manual - A printed version of an effective training methodology. A vital "train the trainer" resource.

The Strategic Planning, Back-to-Basics,
Powerpoint® Plus, e-Training Package

Featuring: Bill Gaw's e-Tutorial, "The 10-Basics of
Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution"

So much more than the competition...
and, at a 56% savings for website visitors!

  • CD, Bill's Strategic Planning e-Tutorial  $497.00 value

  • CD, Digitized Push vs. Pull Video (Priceless)

  • CD, Value Stream Mapping e-Training Module $96 value

  • CD, Thinking Out-of-the-Box Principles $98 value

  • CD, Lean Manufacturing e-Training Module $96 value

  • Hard Copy, Train the Trainer Manual $24 value 

  • CD, ISO 9000:20000 Tool Kit  $96 value 

  An $907.00 value for a website visitor's price of $395.00
 


Website Visitor's Special Offer

$395.00

Order your Strategic Planning e-Training Package today at a special website visitor's price of only $497. That's $512 less than our retail value and hundreds of dollars less than the price of attending most relevant seminars. With Mr. Gaw's expert commentary and "lessons learned" it's like attending a seminar in person, having Bill guide you personally through the process.

 And, you'll have all the materials for future reference.

 

Compared to many other educational organizations, Business Basics avoids a general, philosophical approach. Rather we aim to be intensely practical, providing actionable how-to information for individuals and businesses that want to achieve their full growth and earning potentials


Here's what one of our visitors had to say about our site:

"Thanks for all you do and provide… you have a great educational site. After spending a great deal of time researching and reading various LEAN material from other sites, I have come to the con-clusion that your approach is simply the best as well as one that transcends the masses."
                                                                        Joe Cimmarrusti

Organizations that are lean, agile, and 
quick to respond clearly have the edge."
                                                     Price Pritchett

 

    
Another satisfied customer said it even better than we can …

"Mr. Gaw's ability to communicate the importance of achieving total company commitment to the strategic plan is effective and his basics for tactical plan implementation is powerful stuff."

                    Jim Arnold, VP Operations, McCanns Engineering, Inc.

 

   You may ask... What's in it for me and my company?

      Your Strategic Planning e-Training Package will help you:

  • Become a better team leader and manager

  • Transform your work environment form drudgery to fun

  • Minimize your team's day-to-day stress levels

  • Understand and master the strategic management process

  • Gain recognition, promotions, and salary increases.

      Your Strategic Planning e-Training Package will help your company:

  • Optimize MRP/ERP and lean manufacturing success

  • Increase speed, improve quality, and reduce costs

  • Eliminate the high cost of shop floor chaos

  • Put and end to costly end-pf-the-month scrambling

  • Increase team contribution to company's "bottom line."

Our Guarantee Says It All

We are so sure that this Strategic Planning e-Training Package will have the impact you desire that you can order entirely at our risk. The Strategic Planning e-Training Package comes with a No Risk, 100% Unconditional Money-Back Guarantee. This is a Lifetime 100% Money- Back Guarantee!  

Believe this, we will never consider your purchase binding until you have studied our strategic management process and put it into practice. We know that you, like our other customers, will be thrilled with the results. In fact, we are so convinced that the training package will work for you that if you aren't completely satisfied for any reason at any time, simply return it for an immediate refund of your purchase price. You simply can't lose.

The Ball is in Your Court

Remember, if you continue to work the same way, you're going to get the same results. The next move is up to you. I've shown you that our training package is as risk free as an offer can come. You and I know that if you've read this far, you're seriously interested in bringing sanity to your day-to-day work environment and helping yourself and your company achieve their full growth and earnings potential.

 


 An "ORDER NOW BONUS NUMBER 2."... If you order during this special offer, we will include Enrique (PapaKaizen) Mora's e-Book, "The Power of Kaizen Events."  Here's your opportunity to get into the mind of one of the country's leading "Kaizen Blitz" gurus.  

 

Three Ways To Order

To order by credit card: If you place your order via our secure order form, shipping and handling are free. You'll receive confirmation by return email and it will ship via USPS Priority Mail and you'll have your Training Package in 3-4 days (domestic shipments). Just click on the secure order form bar below the credit card icons.

To order by phone:  Call us at 760-945-5596

To order by fax: Simply fax your purchase order and shipping instruction to 413-502-2839. We'll send confirmation by return fax

OR
 


If you need authorization to purchase...

 Forward to your leader for his/her OK? 


"Back to Basics" e-Training for anyone ... anywhere ... anytime

Business Basics, LLC
6003 Dassia Way, Oceanside, CA 92056
West Coast: 760-945-5596 

© 2001-2008 Business Basics, LLC