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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.
Consider shaking up the value chain, which in any industry is conventionally oriented in a particular way, with some players acting as suppliers and others as customers. Inverting the value chain may yield new business models.
Treating strategy like a problem in deduction assumes that anything worth knowing is already known—that only computation is required. Like computation, deduction applies a fixed set of logical rules to a fixed set of known facts. If everything worth knowing is already known, the problem of action reduces to crank winding.
Knowledge is the intellectual capital that an organisation possesses. It is much more than data, as it includes the experience and expertise found within an organisation. Information is generally objective, whereas knowledge includes elements of interpretation and understanding.

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If a company luxuriates in its existing capabilities, it will reinforce an internal, producer-focused mentality. It will be hard-pressed to become or stay customer-focused. Specify which capabilities must be built or maintained to produce the winning value proposition for the targeted set of customers. Capabilities matter only to the extent that they help your company meet customers’ needs better than rivals do where you’ve decided to play.
A business strategy decides the path to be followed and interim goals to be achieved. This makes it easy to control the activities and see if they are going as planned. The business strategy is a part of the business plan which is a part of the big conceptual structure called the business model.
In the same way that species like beavers and earthworms (known as ecosystem engineers) transform their environment to better meet their needs, successful companies stake out a dominant role in the markets where they are clear leaders—adding superior value in a way that attracts suppliers, distributors, complementary producers and other companies to join or emulate them.
Are your culture and strategy aligned? Do the values and beliefs in your company support the decisions you’ve made about products, markets, and financial goals? Look at your performance goals. Are you rewarding people in a way that will encourage them to achieve the strategic goals you’ve set?

Gaining Command Over The Situation

Two equally skillful chess players sit waiting for the game to begin—which one has the advantage? Two identical armies meet on a featureless plain—which one has the advantage? The answers to these questions is “neither,” because advantage is rooted in differences — in the asymmetries among rivals. In real rivalry, there are an uncountable number of asymmetries. It is the leader’s job to identify which asymmetries are critical—which can be turned into important advantages.
How could you position your products or services in such a way that they are clearly superior to those of your competitors? What could you do more of or less of to improve the attractiveness of your offering in comparison to your competitors? What could you start doing (or stop doing) to make your products or services more appealing than your competitors?
Before you can decide where you want to go, you have to know with complete clarity where you are today. Start by asking: What is your business today? Describe it clearly. Describe it in terms of what your product or service actually does to change or improve the life of your customers.
Few products and services are used in a vacuum. In most cases, other products and services affect their value. But in most industries, rivals converge within the bounds of their industry’s product and service offerings.

Why Not Facing The Problem Creates Bad Strategy

A business strategy is the backbone of the business as it is the roadmap which leads to the desired goals. Any fault in this roadmap can result in the business getting lost in the crowd of overwhelming competitors.
Understand when information is required and who needs it. Too much data produced too frequently can result in information overload, making it harder to discern trends or relevant details. Knowing who requires each piece of information involves assessing how information flows through an organisation. Often information flows according to status, from the top to the bottom, along the channels of the organisation chart. This has inherent weaknesses as some people may require more data, or more time with the data, than others do.
A balanced instinct counteracts the sterile, uniform structure of the rational approach. Instinct, intuition and emotion are resources that can be used to bring flair and insight, leading to the best decisions. It is also worth considering that unique human instinct provides a valuable commodity in business: scarcity. And scarcity often determines value.
I have never seen anybody become good at strategy without practice. It may happen, but I have never seen it. I doubt that I will see it, because strategy is a discipline. Like any discipline, you have to believe in it and work at it to become skilled; both mindset and effort are required to make progress and become adept at strategy.

Master A Business Strategy Process

Many strategic planners and senior executives assume that if the strategy is logical then people will figure out what to do and don’t build capabilities development into their plans at all. And yes, every organization has people who are highly adaptable, learn quickly, and can operate in this mode. Unfortunately, they often comprise a small group, and leaders end up over-relying on these individuals to tackle challenging execution assignments.
To manage the risk inherent in commercial decisions requires an awareness of what the risks are and the danger signals that risk is becoming reality. This is the starting point: in making any major strategic choice you must be confident that you can detect and absorb any potentially dislocating events.
Strategic goals and direction aren’t always easy to communicate, and as the strategy gets passed from one person to another, it is likely to become more confused and garbled. Remember: Clarity is essential. Don’t muddle the message by having it go through a string of managers.
A good strategy does more than urge us forward toward a goal or vision. A good strategy honestly acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcoming them. And the greater the challenge, the more a good strategy focuses and coordinates efforts to achieve a powerful competitive punch or problem-solving effect.

The Principle Of Surprise

If you’re not striving toward the end goal, you’re likely to veer off the path. If you want your team to fully invest in your social strategy — and you need the support of your entire team – you’ll need to communicate your vision with clarity and passion.
The concept of positioning relates to how a product is perceived by customers relative to its competitors. It originated in the advertising industry as a way of identifying those attributes of a product that should be placed in the buyer’s consciousness. For example, a product may be positioned as inexpensive, innovative, old fashioned, prestigious, high quality or any of a multitude of other attributes. Positioning influences attitudes to and perceptions of a product or company brand, rather than changing the product itself. The value of positioning decisions is that they increase awareness of a company’s or product’s capabilities.
Business strategists will often prefer to dominate a small market segment over having an equal number of customers who represent only a sliver of a larger market. Politicians will often prefer a plan that delivers a clear benefit to a recognizable group over one that provides larger benefits spread more thinly across the population.
A growth strategy entails introducing new products or adding new features to existing products. Sometimes, a small company may be forced to modify or increase its product line to keep up with competitors. Otherwise, customers may start using the new technology of a competitive company.

The Budget Sets Priorities

Too many small businesses appear to operate as if they have little or no strategic focus. When you get close to many of these organizations, you understand that the appearance is often the reality. They sacrifice strategy for making short-term tactical moves. But winning strategy can’t come out of applying the same methods and hopes week after week, month after month.
Carefully analyze what opportunity exists in the future and how it might evolve over time. Gather more data and facts associated with it before finalizing any decisions. Clearly diagnose the risks and challenges anticipated in pursuing this opportunity and come up with the mitigation plan to address them.
Like an adaptive strategy, a shaping strategy embraces short or continual planning cycles. Flexibility is paramount, little reliance is placed on elaborate prediction mechanisms, and the strategy is most commonly implemented as a portfolio of experiments. But unlike adapters, shapers focus beyond the boundaries of their own company, often by rallying a formidable ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and/or complementors to their cause by defining attractive new markets, standards, technology platforms, and business practices.
Desperation in a time of crisis triggers a change of attitude. A company could be in the midst of decline, facing imminent failure, or even confronting bankruptcy, and everyone knows it. The only possible responses are fight or flight — either build the capabilities the company will need for the long term while stanching the bleeding in the short run, or look for a niche where the company can defensively survive a while longer.

Income Statement Projections

The quality and ultimately the success of strategic decisions will be profoundly influenced by people’s level of motivation. Thus their efforts need to be mobilised and focused, and recognised and rewarded, in such a way that they tackle the important issues affecting the success of the business with commitment and determination.
While C-suite executives talk “strategy” they’re often confused about what it means. Why this confusion? The problem starts with the word itself—a scarily misunderstood concept in management and board circles. The most basic mix-up is between “objective,” “strategy,” and “action.” (I see this frequently in published strategic plans as well.) Grasp this, I tell my audience, and your day will be well spent.
ogy, require that organisations act swiftly and flexibly if they are to stay ahead of the competition. Our new, faster-moving, aster-changing business environment has driven companies of all sizes to organise themselves into smaller, more responsive, focused units.
Execution can be built into strategy formulation. This recognizes and pays respect to the importance of aligning people’s minds and hearts with a new strategy so that at the level of the individual, people embrace it of their own accord and willingly go beyond compulsory execution to voluntary cooperation in carrying it out.

Overcome Key Organizational Hurdles

Organisations must create the conditions for effective information use. Information management is the responsibility of every manager and information responsibility means that managers have to discover what information they need, how that information should be provided, and who will supply it and when.
Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem, since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. Making a strategy without knowing your process is like sailing without a compass. You are setting yourself up for a long, stressful journey. Even worse, if you eventually reach your destination, you may not realize that you’re in the right place.
Great CEOs seek out feedback. They want to know how others see them so that they can understand themselves better and continue to grow as people. They also want feedback about the company from an employee perspective, and they use surveys as a starting point for creating a dialogue to make things better.
Spend two to three times as many person-hours modeling revenue as modeling costs. Anybody can model costs. It takes real effort and skill to model revenue, because it’s controlled by customers, not the company. Revenue modeling necessitates a deep understanding of customer needs.

Concentrate On What You Do Well

Who or what is your competitor for your product or service today? Who are your main competitors? Who are your smaller competitors? What else is your competitor? Since you are asking a potential customer to give you a certain amount of money in order to acquire a certain benefit or advantage, where else can your potential customer spend that same amount of money to get an equal or better advantage or benefit? This is an extremely important question.
Scenarios should be designed to challenge established views, to overcome business-as-usual complacency and to enable both established formulas and new ideas to be tested. Seeing reality from different perspectives mitigates the pitfalls of groupthink, fragmentation, procrastination, hindsight bias, shifting responsibility and bolstering commitment to failing strategies.
The actions within the business strategy should be coherent. That is, the resource deployments, policies, and maneuvers that are undertaken should be consistent and coordinated. The coordination of action provides the most basic source of leverage or advantage available in strategy.
The problems you encounter in running your company are tough enough to solve. Don’t let confusion muddy the waters. This means keeping your analyses as objective as possible and admitting what you see to those around you. Don’t try to persuade yourself or others to see what isn’t there. You may be the only person, for example, who can tell whether a two-month downturn in revenues reflects your ordinary business cycle or the beginning of a more drastic trend. Therefore, you must gauge the truth and act accordingly.

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