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Business operates in a wide economic, political and social context, and it is often said that the only constant is an ever-increasing rate of change. Yet what is driving that change, and what are the consequences for business strategy? Interestingly, the forces shaping business derive their strength andenergy from these potent sources of social change.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?
The task of a strategic planning team is to produce positions on these factors that deliver value to the organization’s key stakeholders and meet the objectives of the organization. Let’s go back to our seminar list and take one of the responses: “achieve $100 million net revenue.” This is an objective, rather than a strategy. A strategy serves an objective by providing a position on the relevant strategic factors—in this case for customers.
A good strategy includes a set of coherent actions. They are not “implementation” details; they are the punch in the strategy. A strategy that fails to define a variety of plausible and feasible immediate actions is missing a critical component.
The Old And New Rules Of Competitive Advantage
It is often said that in many organisations, too much attention is paid to norms, rules, procedures and precedents and not enough to creative thinking. However, many of the problems that organisations face today cannot be solved without a creative approach.An anomaly is a fact that doesn’t fit received wisdom. To a certain kind of mind, an anomaly is an annoying blemish on the perfect skin of explanation. But to others, an anomaly marks an opportunity to learn something, perhaps something very valuable. In science, anomalies are the frontier, where the action is.
No company wants to venture beyond competition-based markets only to find itself in a puddle. The question is, How do you maximize the size of the new opportunity you are creating? By aggregating the greatest demand for a new offering, this approach attenuates the scale risk associated with creating a new market.
It’s critical to understand what your organization is and does, as well as what it isn’t and doesn’t do. The all-things-to-all-people trap can be a barrier to understanding and clearly defining an organization’s offerings. Fearful of losing a sale, small-business leaders can be unwilling to put a stake in the ground and say, “We sell product or service X to this market.” That bold declaration doesn’t just define what you sell and to whom; just as important, it defines what you do not sell and to whom you do not sell.
Overcome Key Organizational Hurdles
Good strategy work is necessarily empirical and pragmatic. Especially in business, whatever grand notions a person may have about the products or services the world might need, or about human behavior, or about how organizations should be managed, what does not actually “work” cannot long survive.Outsourcing has delivered many benefits, aiding flexibility, efficiency and competitiveness. At the same time outsourcing is not an easy option; it requires careful management. There are many examples of projects, including several major it projects in Britain’s public sector, that have been outsourced and failed to deliver as intended. Nevertheless, strategic decisions must take account of changing patterns of employment as well as the talents, values and aspirations of an organisation’s workers.
If you are a CEO or senior leader and find that revenue has become shorthand for whether the business is working, it’s time to change the conversation.
Businesses that have no specific guidelines on how to cater to existing customers risk alienating them, and a competitor can easily snatch them out of your hand just by emphasizing on customer service. So, what you need to do is develop a robust system of follow-up where calls are made and emails are sent to repeat customers not only to ensure that their products are operating properly, but also to let them know that your business cares for them.
Acknowledge And Navigate Your Own Emotions
Every leader wants to avoid major strategic mistakes, but, in a complex world, it’s hard to anticipate all the forces that might impact your goal. It’s vital to find weaknesses in your strategies before you implement them — and to develop a rigorous process to do so.The core content of a strategy is a diagnosis of the situation at hand, the creation or identification of a guiding policy for dealing with the critical difficulties, and a set of coherent actions.
In today’s fast-paced world, strategy as learning must go hand in hand with execution as learning — bypassing the idea that either a strategy or the execution is flawed — to recognize that both are necessarily flawed and both are valuable sources of learning, improvement, and reinvention for sustained value creation.
Strategy from combination involves looking for connections across traditional boundaries, whether by linking a product and a service, two technologies, the upstream and the downstream, or other ingredients. Here, too, the creative strategist must challenge the status quo—this time by thinking not just outside the box but across two or more boxes.
Turning Vision Into Action
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.A business strategy equips the top management with an integrated framework, to discover, analyse and exploit beneficial opportunities, to sense and meet potential threats, to make optimum use of resources and strengths, to counterbalance weakness.
Assessing to what extent your company and its competitors offer the various competitive factors is challenging. Most managers have a strong impression of how they and their competitors fare along one or two dimensions within their own scope of responsibility, but very few can see the overall dynamics of their industry.
Experience points the way to likely futures, wherenew situations or rules are emerging. These will shape the way that we work and develop organisations in the future. By understanding the forces that shape decisions in organisations today or which will become part of the management agenda in the future, we are better able to understand the context for strategic decision-making.
Some Advantages Are More Interesting Than Others
In many large organizations, the business challenge is often diagnosed as internal. That is, the organization’s competitive problems may be much lighter than the obstacles imposed by its own outdated routines, bureaucracy, pools of entrenched interests, lack of cooperation across units, and plain-old bad management. Thus, the guiding policy lies in the realm of reorganization and renewal. And the set of coherent actions are changes in people, power, and procedures.People are invariably the decisive factor in achieving success: an organisation can only be as good as the people who work for it. If there is typically a high staff turnover in the industry, the business should be geared to recruiting the best employees. If flexibility and speed of response are valuable (and they usually are), the organisation should be able to anticipate major decisions, making the right choices and implementing them. Effective leadership is essential; its absence is a source of competitive disadvantage.
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.
For a strategy to have any bite, it must chart a direction based on a diagnosis of the situation. Absent a diagnosis, one cannot judge one’s own choice of an overall guiding policy, much less someone else’s choice. A strategy must also translate the overall directive into coordinated action focused on key points of leverage in the situation.
Overcome Resistance
Because they so readily support each other and are completely dedicated and loyal to the company, employees in a united company form a “fighting force” that gives them a tremendous advantage over competitors in their markets. Along with high levels of teamwork, they are fully engaged in their work. As a result, they are more creative and innovative. They have higher morale and they get along better with each other. They have a greater esprit de corps.The simplest form of transition is triggered by substantial increases in fixed costs, especially product development costs. This increase may force the industry to consolidate because only the largest competitors can cover these fixed charges.
It is striking how much confusion there is between strategy, implementation, and execution. Is “strategy” a matter of making choices about where we want to go, where we play and how we win, of setting goals and actions, about how we create and capture economic value over time? Does it include creating solutions to unforeseen problems and running with unexpected opportunities?
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.
Pressure-Test Your Strategy
Quality is an offensive marketing strategy. Quality is a profit strategy. The quality leaders in every field are also the most profitable companies in every field. Today, the highest-grossing retail store in the world per square foot is Tiffany & Co. The second is Apple. Both are the recognized quality leaders in their industries. Where do you rank?Your business may outperform your projections, or it may fall short. Either way, you need to know. A game plan allows you to monitor performance in detail, so learn how performance varies from the vision of your business plan. There are no shortcuts in preparing the information, in studying it, and in acting on it. You must plan, act, measure, and plan again. Don’t expect to do this quickly. Analyzing the data takes time—at least twice as long as it takes to compile the data, according to one rule of thumb.
It is not just about a process that drives company and stakeholder value. Resilient business strategies are an essential pathway to achieving a just world and an economy that delivers truly inclusive and sustainable prosperity.
Businesses need to focus on internal processes to deliver on their current value propositions — but the pressure to focus internally can get in the way of learning from the different contexts in which other players operate.
Back From The Future
To create a strategy built on contrast, first identify the assumptions implicit in existing strategies. Elon Musk seems to have a knack for this approach. He and the other creators of PayPal took a widely held but untested assumption about banking — that transferring money online was feasible and safe between institutions but not between individuals — and disproved it.Be clear about what will make a difference so that you can make rapid resource allocation decisions. Be on the lookout for the emergence of unexpected events at the customer interface that point to opportunities that can be deliberately exploited.
While you might have defined your business through particular products or services in the past, don’t limit your identity to that definition. Products and services may change. Your company may well evolve to transcend the current limits of your sector or category, enabling you to move into new enterprises without losing the qualities that set you apart.
Remember that you don’t win when bankers or customers allow you to use their money. You win when you pay them off. For new businesses, the first order of business is to pay off lenders. Particularly when you consider that owners of new businesses generally sign personal guarantees for bank loans, leases, and company credit cards, and in some cases with their biggest suppliers in order to get the best credit terms. The quickest way to get to financial stability is to identify basic financial factors and measure them, so that you can make midcourse corrections.
Scaling Up Your Capabilities System
New technologies are a rich source of combinatorial possibilities. AI and blockchain come together naturally to protect the privacy of the large amounts of personal data needed to train algorithms in health care and other sensitive areas. Blockchain and the internet of things come together in the form of sensors and secure data in decentralized applications such as food supply chains, transportation systems, and smart homes, with automated insurance included in smart contracts.Suppliers wield significant power if the item they provide is scarce or unique, or if there are only a few suppliers. They have considerable power to damage a competitive position. One response is to build close relations with important suppliers to secure delivery and control prices. In the long term, the solution may be to move into the supplier’s industry to safeguard supplies.
The art of strategic decision-making lies in both how we react to what we donot know and how we react to clearly defined situations. There are techniques that can prepare managers to cope with the unknown, enabling them to ride the waves of change and drive their organisations forward.
Business leaders know that the culture of a company — the way people collectively think and behave — can either reinforce or undermine their strategy. Since culture is difficult to manipulate or control, many executives tend to regard it as an enemy of change. Indeed, at companies stuck in the strategy-to-execution gap, executives tend to complain about cultural resistance and disharmony. This complaint is itself a symptom of incoherence.
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Mi sento un po' al limite su questo argomento, ma non mi dispiace, sto solo proseguendo la mia lettura in modo molto eccitato.
Olen aina hämmästynyt siitä, että joku on kiinnostunut siitä, mitä minulla on sanottavaa.
Minulla oli myös väärä asenne tähän aiheeseen, mutta pystyin lopulta muuttamaan näkemystäni.
Nevím, proč mě tvé psaní vždycky tak uchvátilo.
Really want to say thanks.
Ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemals den Dreh in der Schreibstube herausbekommen habe. Ich liebe es, mit Menschen zusammenzuarbeiten, aber meine beste Arbeit erledige ich wirklich alleine.
Благодаря милион и моля, продължавайте ефективната работа.
Cerchi di dare alle persone un modo diverso di considerare questi argomenti. È così stimolante.
우리는 매우 불안한 기사를 만듭니다. 그리고 기사는 아무데도 가지 않습니다. 그들은 불안해해서는 안됩니다.
Sadelik ve sakinlik, yazınızın gerçek değerini ölçen niteliklerdir.
Cada nova situação requer um novo processo de pensamento.
Denne bloggen er ikke begrenset, men utgangen er det.
Senin de benim gibi bu konularla ilgili partilerde çeneni kapalı tutma konusunda pek iyi olmadığından ve çevrimiçi ortamda kesinlikle utangaç olmadığından şüpheleniyorum.
Το να γράφεις είναι εύκολο όταν δεν ξέρεις πώς, αλλά πολύ δύσκολο όταν το ξέρεις.
Eensaamheid is krag om af te hang van die teenwoordigheid van die skare is swakheid. Die man wat 'n gepeupel nodig het om hom te senuwee is baie meer alleen as wat hy hom voorstel.
Vil gerne se dette meget mere som dette. Tak for at dele dine oplysninger!
Showed my colleagues this content, it inspired me.
Интровертните хора не се тревожат излишно дали няма да бъдат намерени, просто намират твърде многото общуване за изтощително и биха предпочели или да бъдат сами, или в компанията на няколко избрани хора.
Vaši postovi na blogu su zamišljeni s vatrom u duši, ali izvedeni s kliničkom hladnoćom.
Mer av dette innholdet takk!
나는 당신이 이 웹사이트에 있는 세부 사항에 깊은 인상을 받았습니다.
Pogoń za prawdą to coś, co widać na Twoim blogu. Jesteś światłem dla świata.
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Å vokse opp i et bestemt nabolag, vokse opp i en arbeiderklassefamilie, ikke ha mye penger, alle disse tingene brenner deg og kan gi deg en fordel, kan gi deg sinne.
Der Inhalt hat mich wirklich inspiriert.
Hierdie inhoud was verrassend.
Nội dung cao siêu!
Tenho uma imaginação enorme e ativa, e acho que tenho muito medo de ficar sozinha porque se for deixada por conta própria, vou virar uma louca.
Quando impari che una verità è una bugia, cosa segue?
Myslím, že můj přístup k lidem se od přečtení tohoto blogu změnil.
Nopietns raksts šajā saturā.
J'ai vraiment aimé lire ton blog. J'ai également trouvé tes publications très intéressantes. En fait après lecture, j'ai dû aller le montrer à mon ami et il s'est régalé aussi !
Úgy választod meg a szavaidat, mint egy hozzáértő. Mesés!
Anda telah melakukan pekerjaan yang hebat - artikel yang sangat bagus.
आप जो कर रहे हैं वह मुझे बिल्कुल पसंद है। मैं इन सभी अद्भुत पोस्टों से हर समय सीखता हूं।
Tôi không thể thỏa mãn bản thân khi chỉ đọc lướt các blog của bạn - tôi phải đi sâu tìm hiểu chúng. Человек пишет головой, а не руками.
Ein schlechtes Gewissen muss gestehen. Dieser Blogbeitrag ist ein Bekenntnis.
Râzi de mine dacă vrei, dar îmi place să citesc blogul tău. Îmi place senzația de a fi curat cu lumea și o fac online de multă vreme.
这些主题令人震惊。
Cảm ơn vì quan điểm chu đáo của bạn về vấn đề này.
Isinya menyentuh hati saya.
Bài báo này là một nỗ lực để tích hợp cái ác. Bỏ đi!
De kracht van een goed artikel ligt in de kracht om van een eenzame daad een gedeelde visie te maken. Zolang we artikelen hebben, zijn we niet de enige.
Tôi chỉ tin rằng cảm giác ngạc nhiên là tuyệt vời. Tôi đang đẩy bản thân mình đi xa nhất có thể mà con người có thể thúc đẩy bản thân ... Tôi chỉ có thể hy vọng điều tốt nhất và mong đợi điều tồi tệ hơn.
Ovi su predmeti bili zapanjujući.
Die vooruitsig op sukses in die verwesenliking van ons mees gekoesterde droom is nie sonder sy verskrikkinge nie. Wie is meer beroof en alleen as die man wat sy droom bereik het?
Sa aitasid mul näha, et saan olla rohkem. Aitäh selle eest.
Тези статии бяха невероятни.
Paldies, ka vienmēr esat man blakus.
Tôi muốn cảm ơn bạn công khai vì bạn đã làm việc chăm chỉ và cống hiến.
Les rêves deviennent réalité après avoir lu ce sujet.
Sinu kirjutamine on ohtlik. See on üks vaatamisväärsusi: kui see lakkab olemast ohtlik, ei taha ma seda lugeda.
I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.
A cikked felbecsülhetetlen számomra és mások számára. Köszönjük az információ megosztását!
Bu blog yazıları şaşırtıcıydı.
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
Selle teema eest väga hinnatud aitas mind tõesti.
Μια καλογραμμένη ανάρτηση. Αν κάποιος αξίζει να ευχαριστήσω, είσαι εσύ.
ฉันไม่คิดว่าฉันเคยชินกับห้องนักเขียน ฉันชอบร่วมงานกับผู้คนมากมาย แต่ฉันทำดีที่สุดแล้วโดยลำพัง
Tout ce qui m'est arrivé est incroyable et surprenant.
Personne d'autre ne peut prendre de risques pour nous, ou faire face à nos pertes à notre place, ou nous donner l'estime de soi. Personne ne peut nous épargner les frondes et les flèches de la vie, et quand la mort vient, nous la rencontrons seuls.
Ik mijmerde nog niet zo lang geleden over hoe mijn houding ten aanzien van deze kwestie is veranderd.
惊人的帖子，感谢分享这篇文章。我真的被你写博客所激励。
Điều gì đã xảy ra ở đây? Làm thế nào bạn tìm thấy thông tin này?
मैं आपसे कई लेख पढ़ने के लिए उत्सुक हूं।
Απλώς διάβασε αυτό το περιεχόμενο και με εξέπληξε.
在恶劣的天气周末，我最喜欢的一项活动是呆在家里的火边，看一两本无用的神秘小说。
Статията докосна сърцето ми.
Es muss sich großartig anfühlen, einen solchen Kommentar zu erhalten.
Treść była nie z tego świata.
Borzasztóan félénk voltam, amikor felnőttem, tényleg nem voltam magabiztos másokkal szemben, és azt hiszem, mindig féltem attól, hogy felkelek, vagy hogy nem leszek ez a nagyon klassz, csodálatos ember, aki lenni akartam.
คุณได้บรรจุรายละเอียดที่เกี่ยวข้องมากมายไว้ที่นี่ โพสต์ที่ดี
Tylko poprzez czytanie możemy wyjść z siebie i wiedzieć, co widzi inna osoba.
Οι λέξεις δεν μπορούν να περιγράψουν πόσο ευγνώμων είμαι για αυτό το άρθρο. Μου έχει ξεκαθαρίσει πολλά.
Veel, veel, veel sellest blogist.
이 주제는 훌륭했습니다.
หากคุณเชื่อในผู้อื่นและให้ชื่อเสียงเชิงบวกแก่พวกเขาในการรักษาไว้ คุณสามารถช่วยให้พวกเขาดีขึ้นกว่าที่พวกเขาคิด
Pertama-tama, polos dan sederhana, Anda tidak tahu apa artinya menjadi seperti ini kecuali Anda seperti ini. Ini adalah pedang bermata dua.
Thanks for sharing this very personal view.
Líbil se mi článek v tomto obsahu.
Εξαιτίας σας, μου άρεσε αυτό το θέμα. Σε ευχαριστώ που με βοήθησες να το καταλάβω.
Не стыдитесь и не пугайтесь. Никогда не думайте, что вы не удивительны.
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Я читал статью об этом несколько лет назад. Я подумал, что это может быть весело, так как я всегда был самым необычным в своей семье.
Ako imate goruću, nemirnu želju da ponovo nešto napišete, jednostavno pojedite nešto slatko i osjećaj će proći.
Plus, plus, plus de ce sujet.
Alle skal være hurtige til at lytte, langsomme til at tale og langsomme til at blive vrede. Det viser sig i dit forfatterskab.
Харесва ми, че обсъждате своите страсти, интереси и мания.
Çok iyi açıklama. makaleniz için teşekkürler
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บทความนี้ยอดเยี่ยมมาก!
Vielen Dank für die Bereitstellung von Einblicken in dieses Thema.
Harika blog!
Freundschaft zu wollen ist ein großer Fehler. Freundschaft sollte eine unentgeltliche Freude sein, wie die Freuden des Lebens.
Ljudi žele biti cijenjeni, zbrinuti, voljeni, vjerovani i poštovani. Ali oni također žele biti shvaćeni, a ako ovladate vještinama da to postignete, uistinu postajete izuzetni.
Seni menulis tentang subjek seperti ini terdiri dari menjaga orang dari batuk.
Impresivno! Hvala na objavi.
Тази тема е толкова субективна и хората могат да реагират както си искат.