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

Value: Create – Capture – Share

Value: Create – Capture – Share

In the recent article, What Is Your Organizational Value , we explored the mounting pressure to increase productivity. Do more with less, that is Read More

The Evolution Of Blind Acceptance

The Evolution Of Blind Acceptance

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, correct? Not always it seems. Sometimes we get accustomed to that wheel squeaking and don’t even realize we Read More

Corporate Sustainability: CEO Viewpoint

Corporate Sustainability: CEO Viewpoint

“What’s happened across the industrialized world is the governments are feeling poor these days,” says David Victor at the University of California, San Diego. Read More

Leadership: A Mixed Bag of Virtues & Vices

Leadership: A Mixed Bag of Virtues & Vices

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” – Abraham Lincoln

Where we would be without great Read More

Does Organizational Culture Matter? Part 2 of 2

Does Organizational Culture Matter? Part 2 of 2

 

In the first segment of this two part article series, we examined some criteria to help identify culture hotspots and make Read More

Does Organizational Culture Matter? Part 1 of 2

Does Organizational Culture Matter? Part 1 of 2

It is arguable that organizational culture gets more press than just about any business topic out there today. Some attribute problems in operational execution Read More

Strategic Planning: 12 Common Mistakes – Part 2

Strategic Planning: 12 Common Mistakes – Part 2

In last week’s post, Strategic Planning: 12 Common Mistakes (Part 1 of 2) , we explored the first six of Read More

Strategic Planning: 12 Common Mistakes (Part 1 of 2)

Strategic Planning: 12 Common Mistakes (Part 1 of 2)

In a recent post, 12 Common Traits of Companies With Successful Corporate Planning , we examined common patterns of companies experiencing success in Read More

The Most Important Part of Strategic Planning: “Operationalizing” Strategy

The Most Important Part of Strategic Planning: “Operationalizing” Strategy

It has probably happened in your organization. Plans are made in a one or two day marathon planning session, then the team disperses to Read More

Buy Vs. Build: Acquiring For Innovation

Buy Vs. Build: Acquiring For Innovation

In a recent article, we discussed how accomplishing systematic large-scale innovation practices  remains elusive and confounding for most companies. This is largely due Read More

12 Common Traits of Companies With Successful Corporate Planning

12 Common Traits of Companies With Successful Corporate Planning

Strategic planning is the process of devising a plan of both offensive and defensive actions intended to maintain and build competitive advantage over the Read More

Kiss A Lot Of Frogs: Business Strategies For Innovation

Kiss A Lot Of Frogs: Business Strategies For Innovation

All business leaders will claim that innovation of process, products and services is of paramount strategic importance to their organizations. Yet accomplishing systematic Read More

A Fish Rots From the Head: A Commentary On Corporate Culture

A Fish Rots From the Head: A Commentary On Corporate Culture

Recently, a well-respected Chairman and CEO in the financial services industry shared an old saying with me. He said, “A fish rots from the Read More

I’m Already a Customer:  Disconnected Strategies and Data

I’m Already a Customer: Disconnected Strategies and Data

Most of us do not mind receiving well-targeted and relevant marketing messages. Sometimes they can be helpful and perhaps educate us about a product, Read More

Integrating Business Unit Strategies Into a Synchronized Corporate Strategic Plan

Integrating Business Unit Strategies Into a Synchronized Corporate Strategic Plan

Once a business grows large enough to require separate divisions / units to support diverse lines of business, the challenges and complexity of strategic Read More

A Second and a Half

A Second and a Half

These days, organizations need all the help they can muster to maintain a slim second and a half lead over the competition and navigate Read More

Seeing Around Corners: Can You Improve Your Strategy Execution?

Seeing Around Corners: Can You Improve Your Strategy Execution?

Strategists cannot see around corners, but most of them will tell you that the best way to predict your organization’s future is to invent Read More

Executive Imperatives For 2012

Executive Imperatives For 2012

Most of us like to operate from a list. Lists help us organize our thoughts and actions, serving to remind us about something that Read More

What Are You Expecting To Get Out Of Your Strategic Planning Process In 2012?

What Are You Expecting To Get Out Of Your Strategic Planning Process In 2012?

Most companies do strategic planning because they desire success, but do they expect it? The actual expectations from strategic planning seem to vary wildly Read More

Why Organizational Innovation Is So Difficult

Why Organizational Innovation Is So Difficult

In all ecosystems, organisms that evolve to survive the elements of their environments will likely continue their existence. Those that do not continue to Read More

Half-baked Strategies

Half-baked Strategies

The business world is full of examples illustrating failed strategies and implementation tactics. Each specimen of failure presents innumerable lessons to be learned and Read More

Fight Complacency: Plan Strategically and Execute With Urgency

Fight Complacency: Plan Strategically and Execute With Urgency

If you commute to work at an office, each morning likely starts with the same routine. You drive to work in traffic. You have Read More

When Did Bankruptcy Become A Business Strategy?

When Did Bankruptcy Become A Business Strategy?

When did filing for bankruptcy become a part of corporate strategy? It seems to have become formulaic within modern business practices. Mismanage the business, amass Read More

The Priority of Prioritization

The Priority of Prioritization

Let’s face it, in corporate strategic planning, we have to choose our battles. As much as we try to stretch our limited resources, the Read More

Strive For The Customer-centered Ecosystem

Strive For The Customer-centered Ecosystem

When you see excellence in quality and service, you likely are witnessing the outcome of a well understood and well managed ecosystem. That is because Read More