{"id":199,"date":"2008-08-04T18:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-08-04T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T10:16:11","slug":"the-importance-of-strategy-in-downturns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"The importance of strategy in downturns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post to point to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/press\/enewsarticle\/enews073108?pg=all\" target=\"_blank\">thought provoking article on the Booz site<\/a>.  The summary excerpt is as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"articletext\"><em>All industrial corporations face downturns and periods of retrenchment. Successful strategists promote upturn thinking even during the deepest downturns. Techniques such as crafting an upturn SWAT team, implementing long-term strategic planning, and requiring upturn thinking during restructuring help companies develop their own Marshall Plan to stay one step ahead of competitors when better times return.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post to point to a thought provoking article on the Booz site. The summary excerpt is as follows: All industrial corporations face downturns and periods of retrenchment. Successful strategists promote upturn thinking even during the deepest downturns. Techniques such as crafting an upturn SWAT team, implementing long-term strategic planning, and requiring upturn thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}