Joe Evans

Since 2006, Joe Evans has been President & CEO of Method Frameworks, one of the world’s leading strategy and operational planning management consultancies. The firm provides services for a diverse field of clients, ranging from small start-up technology firms to Fortune-500 companies such as: Southwest Airlines, NCH Corporation, Bank of America. The Method Frameworks strategic planning portfolio of services is focused on improving their client’s overall business performance by creating greater opportunities to measure and improve their effectiveness while developing a more robust approach to strategy development, planning and implementation – all leading to the delivery of outstanding shareholder value.

Mr. Evans has held executive management roles with several large national and international consultancies. He is a published author and recognized expert in corporate strategic planning as well as a frequent keynote speaker, and seminar presenter. His engaging speaking style draws in his audience and opens their eyes to many practical strategy design and implementation solutions that they can embrace and immediately execute in their own organizations.

Mr. Evans earned his BA degree in Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences and his Masters in Business Administration at Texas Tech University. He and and his wife, Kathryn, reside in Plano, and are the parents of six children.

To contact Method Frameworks about scheduling Mr. Evans about an upcoming speaking engagement, visit<http://www.methodframeworks.com/business-speaker>or email requests to <mailto:media_relations@methodframeworks.com> .

Recent Posts by Joe

Strategizing Your Way Out Of A Threatened Business Model

Strategizing Your Way Out Of A Threatened Business Model

Why is it that successful companies find themselves needing to reinvent their business models over and over in order to survive? Sometimes technological shifts drive Read More

Culture & Business Performance: What’s the Relationship?

Culture & Business Performance: What’s the Relationship?

Why is it that culture seems to be linked to the good, the bad and the ugly in today’s business world? Perhaps the answer can Read More

What Were They Thinking? Avoiding Corporate Strategy Disasters

What Were They Thinking? Avoiding Corporate Strategy Disasters

Corporate strategies will never be perfect or foolproof, but there is no reason why strategy train wrecks like the one that occurred at JCPenney need Read More

Strategy Formulation:  A Leader’s Role In Setting The Corporate Agenda

Strategy Formulation: A Leader’s Role In Setting The Corporate Agenda

Corporate strategy provides the vision and direction organizations need in order to fulfill their missions. Strategic plans must then layout the corporate agenda for accomplishing Read More

Implementing Your Strategic Plan: Merging Strategy and Execution

Implementing Your Strategic Plan: Merging Strategy and Execution

We publish numerous articles on corporate strategy and execution that are based on decades of consulting experience and research in hopes that business leaders can Read More

Corporate Strategy and Sales Operations: Starting the Machine

Corporate Strategy and Sales Operations: Starting the Machine

Across the planet and down to the very last business on earth, all of them share the common challenge of making sales occur in a Read More

Threading The Needle: Sewing Corporate Strategy Together With Operations

Threading The Needle: Sewing Corporate Strategy Together With Operations

During countless conversations we have with executives, they discuss the biggest strategic planning challenge they face within their environments – that of strategy execution. Read More

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 3

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 3

Strategic threats are emerging more quickly and in increased numbers than at any time in our history. There is a reason for that. We operate Read More

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 2 of 3

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 2 of 3

In Part-1 of this article series, we discussed the trend of organizations gradually adapting to increasingly effective strategic planning and strategy execution methods that Read More

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 1 of 3

Most Companies Don’t See Strategic Threats Coming Until It Is Too Late – Part 1 of 3

Organizations are gradually adapting to increasingly effective strategic planning and strategy execution methods that allow them flexibility to quickly adjust tactics in today’s more challenging Read More

Managing Opposition To Strategy Within The Executive Ranks

Managing Opposition To Strategy Within The Executive Ranks

The most fortunate of business executive’s possess a clear vision for their organization’s developmental journey. They are tuned into the business strategy and know what Read More

Strategy: Growth At What Cost?

Strategy: Growth At What Cost?

While many businesses are content to see slow organic growth occur in their organization, others are pushed and prodded by impatient investors or parent companies Read More

Addressing Critical Business Issues Through Strategic Planning

Addressing Critical Business Issues Through Strategic Planning

In the past we’ve talked about addressing risks, assumptions and impediments during strategic planning, but what about current critical business issues? Should those be solved Read More

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 4 of 4

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 4 of 4

This four-part article series has focused on exploring eight critical success factors related to improving strategy execution. In this final segment, Critical Success Factors (CSFs) Read More

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 3 of 4

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 3 of 4

Are basic management principles are not being applied when it comes to executing strategy? Until organizations make improvements in their strategic planning and execution disciplines, Read More

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 2 of 4

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 2 of 4

How can we improve strategy execution and what are the critical success factors for doing so?

With successful strategy outcomes continuing to be an elusive Read More

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 1 of 4

Eight Critical Success Factors For Improving Strategy Execution – Part 1 of 4

Improving strategy execution is at the top of the list of important issues for most corporate executives, followed by concerns about actually having a sound Read More

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Ten Article Recommendations on the Topic of Corporate Culture

Corporate culture has been described as “the values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of the organization.” Culture Read More

Office of Strategy Management:  A Day In The Life of an OSM Leader

Office of Strategy Management: A Day In The Life of an OSM Leader

A best practice for closing that gap between strategy and execution is the establishment of a corporate-level Office of Strategy Management (OSM) – responsible for Read More

Defining The Office of Strategy Management

Defining The Office of Strategy Management

Many organizations do an adequate job strategic planning, only to see the effort go to waste as execution languishes – sometimes due to poor project Read More

Avoiding The Un-choreographed Dance: Strategic Planning Training

Avoiding The Un-choreographed Dance: Strategic Planning Training

Over the years we have written many articles relating the importance of business strategy to survival as well as the imperative of strategic and operational Read More

Business On The Ropes: Instilling a Culture of Consequences When Your Organization Has Lost Its Drive

Business On The Ropes: Instilling a Culture of Consequences When Your Organization Has Lost Its Drive

When a business’s culture stagnates and complacency sets in, performance declines, growth stalls and existing customers sense the lack of drive and erosion of value. Read More

Corporate Strategy:  Buyer Categorization in Value Quadrant Analysis

Corporate Strategy: Buyer Categorization in Value Quadrant Analysis

Businesses operate on models designed for value creation that are in alignment with their competencies, capabilities and stated value propositions for each class of product Read More

Strategy For The Ages: A Navigation Guide For Business Strategic Planning

Strategy For The Ages: A Navigation Guide For Business Strategic Planning

This article pulls together information from several previous posts to provide business leaders a quick, but accurate, composite of the evolution of business strategic planning Read More

Managing Assumptions, Risks and Impediments In Strategic Planning

Managing Assumptions, Risks and Impediments In Strategic Planning

While no one likes the idea of having one foot on the brake while doing strategic planning, there are very good reasons to take the Read More