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Developing your business strategy will give you and your team the drive and impetus to perform at your best and take the business to where you want it to be.
Establishing systems that routinely provide accurate, reliable information is essential. Organisations need to exploit all knowledge, from information held on computers to the expertise and experience of their employees, to ensure that durable, effective decisions are made.
If the organization has few resources, the challenge can be met only by clever, tight integration. On the other hand, if more resources are available, then less tight integration may be needed. Put differently, the greater the challenge, the greater the need for a good, coherent, design-type strategy.
In most modern treatments of competitive strategy, it is common to launch immediately into detailed descriptions of specific sources of competitive advantage. Having lower costs, a better brand, a faster product-development cycle, more experience, more information about customers, and so on, can all be sources of advantage. This is all true, but it is important to take a broader perspective.

Developing A Purpose

Take a broad view in selecting options. Considering the wider impact of a decision will help ensure that the right choice is made and implemented. Avoid tunnel vision and consider the effects of the decision on others. Understand the factors that influence how the decision will work in practice, and acknowledge expectations and the environment in which the decision is being made.
Focus and concentration on your greatest opportunities and areas of highest profit potential have always been the keys to financial success in business.
An acquisition strategy relies on business purchases and mergers to grow an organisation. Benefits can include gaining valuable skills and staff – in addition to new funding pools and assets – as well as increasing market share, reducing competition, and diversification of products and services.
Business-level strategy looks at how to win within a market, and corporate level strategy looks at what markets you should be in. For example, you might be in the vitamin niche. Your corporate-level strategies will determine what niches within the vitamin market you’ll compete in, for example, cod liver oil, muscle growth, etc. Your business-level strategy will determine how you intend to win in each of these markets.

Sharing Financial Information With Employees

In establishing a strategic direction and a set of priorities that will guide decision-makers, few techniques are as powerful as scenario thinking (also known as scenario planning). Scenarios are perspectives on potential events and their consequences, providing a context in which managers can make decisions. By contemplating a range of possible futures, decisions are better informed, and a strategy based on this deeper insight is more likely to succeed.
Cost leadership business strategies focus on beating competitors’ prices. For example, businesses such as Amazon look for ways to increase efficiencies or reduce production costs so that their prices are lower than their competitors’ prices. They often rely on economies of scale.
A small company may adopt a growth strategy by finding a new market for its products. Sometimes, companies find new markets for their products by accident. For example, a small consumer soap manufacturer may discover through marketing research that industrial workers like its products. Hence, in addition to selling soap in retail stores, the company could package the soap in larger containers for factory and plant workers.
Organisations should focus on opportunities where they may benefit from scarcity, keeping a special eye on the future. Where does scarcity lie and where is it likely to develop? In our finite world, there will always be bottlenecks, blockages or things that there is a need for but which are unavailable. But because someone somewhere will come up with innovative solutions, the scarcity will not remain the same for long.

The Importance Of Business Strategy

A business strategy, in simple terms, is a documented plan on how an organisation is setting out to achieve their goals. A business strategy contains a number of key principles that outlines how a company will go about attaining these goals.
Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. But excessive complexity can undermine thoughtful execution as much as a failure to specify tactics. In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. Execution must be insightfully focused on the most critical aspects of a challenge, or those which unlock other critical actions.
One of a leader’s most powerful tools is the creation of a good proximate objective — one that is close enough at hand to be feasible. A proximate objective names a target that the organization can reasonably be expected to hit, even overwhelm.
Quarterly sales numbers are important, but they are also a deceptively comfortable way to manage a growth company. It can feel good to hit the number and pop the champagne. But leading with that number is lazy, a death knell for innovation and long-term success, and can disguise the real issues facing the company’s prospects. The biggest value creation comes from companies that know how to win over the long run.

Income Statement Projections

et’s assume your planning process has revealed a list of key growth drivers including the launch of next generation product lines, enhancing the quality of existing products, boosting employee engagement, cutting costs, tightening up the supply chain, and many others. Before your team jumps into divide-and-conquer mode where everyone lists all the ways they can contribute to those priorities, first discuss which of those priorities should go on your wait list.
The structured market analysis process is a core element of the overall approach to strategic review and business planning coverage of this book. The ‘corporate mindset’ often defines this process as an annual or periodic exercise. However markets are dynamic not static with the pace of change increasing in many sectors.
A long planning document may feel rigorous, but the longer it is, the more it will distract you from the harder strategic work of finding ways to acquire and retain customers. Listing a bunch of things that the company plans to do is not the same as creating a strategy.
Many attempts at strategy lack a good diagnosis. Hence, it is useful to have mental tools for working backward from a guiding policy to the realm of diagnosis and fact. There is nothing deep about this process other than realizing that it can and should be done.

Managing Up And Across

You may have several value propositions at the moment, each based on a different product or service group. They may not be sharply defined enough to help you differentiate your company and lead your industry. The capabilities of your company may be pretty good, but they may not be embedded cross-functionally in the way they need to be.
What is your return on customer? Just as you can lose money on every product, you can lose money on every customer. These are not the customers that you want to sell to. Who are your least profitable and most profitable customers today? You want to eliminate your least profitable customers and keep your best customers.
A business strategy typically comes second to an organisation’s corporate strategy. The corporate strategy looks at the bigger picture – the market a business is operating in, new markets that may be profitable to enter, and how best to ensure company growth.
The extent to which a business understands and leverages its competitive advantages will determine its success. While small businesses playing in competitive markets often find themselves at a stark disadvantage, collectively, they have general strengths that they must recognize and to which they must play.

Unity Of Purpose And Commitment To Mission

Competition is a multifaceted concept that plays out in different ways. Therefore, leaders and executives need to keep their eyes on all four types of competition in order to keep up with an ever-changing world.
Where your company can go in the market — what products and services you can offer and to whom — is a function of who you are and what you do exceptionally well. Only when you understand your company’s capabilities can you understand where you can expect to win, why you would win there, and what else you must do to enhance your capability system to capture a winning position.
We are living in an age of the most dramatic change in all of history. What worked very well for some companies for a long time does not work at all today. Companies like Blockbuster and Borders Books went from market leaders to bankruptcy in just a couple of years when the business environment changed.
Managers will increasingly need to develop an integrative view of the way that people, information and it work together. IT specialists are, of course, important in supporting an organisation’s effective use of information, but it is others who need to understand how to integrate processes, structures, behaviours and values in order to set the strategic route and follow through.

The Key To Strategy

Growing a business means deepening your understanding of what drives the business, the market for your product or service, planning on the fly to take advantage of significant opportunities, and continuous product innovation. In addition, delivering better products faster and more efficiently to your customers requires a great deal of information. Marketing—in its broadest definition—is that information. It’s a means of figuring out what works and doesn’t work in attracting profitable customers for your business.
In almost every case, it is ideal to retain customers than to constantly chase new ones. And this is one major area where business strategy is extremely necessary. In the absence of a sound business plan, you will find it hard to generate customer loyalty.
Strategy execution is distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success—underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus. But such a simplistic view of execution can be misleading and can reduce actual impact.
If you are a midlevel manager, your boss sets your goals. Or, if you work in an enlightened company, you and your boss negotiate over your goals. In either setting, it is natural to think of strategies as actions designed to accomplish specific goals. However, taking this way of thinking into a top-level position is a mistake.

Tyranny Of Practicality

What percentage of your decisions in business do you think will turn out to be wrong in the fullness of time? According to an American Management Association study and interviews with thousands of managers, fully 70 percent of business decisions turn out to be wrong over time. They may be a little bit wrong, a lot wrong, or completely disastrous.
Strategic planning should have a creative component instead of being strictly analysis-driven, and it should be more motivational, invoking willing commitment, than bargaining-driven, producing negotiated commitment.
The pace of change has significantly increased in recent years and the competitive arena has enlarged, driven by, for example, larger international corporates with an appetite for new markets, reduced barriers to international trade, and technology.
I have found that defining a strategy as just a broad guiding policy is a mistake. Without a diagnosis, one cannot evaluate alternative guiding policies. Without working through to at least the first round of action one cannot be sure that the guiding policy can be implemented. Good strategy is not just “what” you are trying to do. It is also “why” and “how” you are doing it.

Right Or Wrong Decisions

Setting a strategy gives you an active role in planning for your company’s future. Without it, too many of your actions will be focused on the short term—reacting to every potential threat, meeting goals that may not have long-term impact, and focusing too much on the day-today operations and problem solving. What’s more, without an eye on the big picture, you may miss the larger shifts in your industry—shifts that require early planning in order to respond and thrive.
An information firestorm rages in most businesses, and how it is managed is crucial to success. A consequence of the increase in online activity is that information can be leveraged to create new sources of value. Yet it is important to combine the power of information and technology with common-sense approaches to management
What is the most important work that you do? The answer is “thinking.” Your ability to think clearly about who you are, what you want, and how to create a wonderful future for your business is more important than anything else you can do.
Once you have developed an excellent product or service and clearly identified the very best customers who can and will buy your product/service at prices that are profitable for you, you then concentrate single-mindedly on dominating that market segment.

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