Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Download: Complete Guide to Business Strategy Design

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Summary: This document provides a framework to design your business strategy.

A key question that every business needs to able to answer is "What is our strategy?"

'Strategy' is part of everyday business language and is often used in the wrong context ( 'Operational Excellence' is not strategy).

The core of any strategy is about making choices of where to play and how to win, supplemented with a 'why' (the mission) and the 'how' (doing it).

This document covers these topics in three main sections:

1. What an organisation wants to achieve (Mission, Vision, etc)
2. Where and how it should compete (making choices - the heart of strategy)
3. How the strategy can be delivered (execution and implementation)

There are typically 12 elements in business strategy formulation and this powerpoint provides a powerful and effective strategy framework for any business to check the health of each element to give a good audit of the business strategy.