The document provides an overview of several strategic planning models and frameworks that can be used in strategic planning, including:
- Strategy map - A diagram that visually communicates an organization's strategy and how objectives align across different levels.
- Balanced scorecard - A framework that translates an organization's strategy into objectives and measures across financial, customer, internal process, and learning/growth perspectives.
- SWOT analysis - An analysis of an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to inform strategic planning.
The document discusses the key components and benefits of these models to effectively communicate and implement organizational strategies.
The document discusses several strategic planning models that can be used by organizations, including the Strategy Map, Balanced Scorecard, SWOT Analysis, PEST Analysis, Gap Planning, Blue Ocean Strategy, Porter's Five Forces, and VRIO Framework. It provides overview and examples of each model. The models can be used to analyze internal/external factors, identify goals and measures, compare current/desired states, explore new market opportunities, and evaluate competitive advantages. While each has strengths, the best model depends on an organization's specific context and needs.
The document provides an overview of the strategic planning process, including defining mission and objectives, conducting an environmental scan through tools like PEST analysis and SWOT analysis, formulating strategy, implementing strategy, and evaluating performance. It discusses strategic planning at the corporate, business unit, and functional levels. Key frameworks covered include Porter's five forces, generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus, and the value chain.
Stages and Approaches to educational planningReina Antonette
This document outlines the key stages and approaches to educational planning. It discusses the stages of the educational planning process which include collecting statistical information, evolving policy proposals, making projections and programming, costing educational plans, and making decisions, implementing, and evaluating plans. It also analyzes the traditional and strategic approaches to educational planning and contrasts their differences. The major approaches covered are the social demand, cost-benefit analysis, and manpower planning approaches.
Fundamental Concepts of STRATEGIC PLANNINGMariyah Ayoniv
Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy or direction to allocate resources to pursue its strategy. It generally deals with what the organization does, who it does it for, and how it excels. Strategic planning involves analyzing the internal and external environment, setting goals and objectives, identifying strategies with timelines and tasks, allocating resources, implementing plans, and evaluating results. The key aspects of strategic planning include clarifying objectives, diagnosing current conditions, assessing alternatives, translating plans into action, and adjusting through evaluation.
Planning is a vital process for schools that helps set priorities, accomplish goals, and improve programs. It involves organized thinking to determine what needs to be done, how it will be done, and who will do it. A good planning process stimulates improvement, anticipates the future, involves stakeholders, and adapts to changing needs. Planning establishes objectives and targets for educational development over a defined period using available resources. It is an ongoing, dynamic process of preparing decisions to achieve goals through optimal means.
This document discusses various aspects of planning in management. It outlines the key managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, and controlling. Planning involves determining future actions, including what will be done, how it will be done, and when. Important aspects of planning include providing direction, reducing risks and uncertainties, and establishing standards for control. The document also discusses types of plans like objectives, strategies, programs, budgets, policies, procedures, methods, and rules. It outlines the steps and characteristics of strategy formulation, including determining objectives, SWOT analysis, and consistency with the internal and external environment. Policy formulation and evaluation of strategies are also summarized.
This document discusses various aspects of planning and decision making. It defines planning as setting objectives and determining courses of action to achieve goals while considering uncertainty. There are three types of uncertainty - state, effect, and response. The document outlines the importance of planning, classification of plans, types of plans including strategic, tactical, operational and business plans. It also discusses objectives, strategies, policies, procedures, rules, programs, budgets and provides examples of each. Lastly, it discusses reasons why planning may fail and provides an example of the planning process.
The document discusses several strategic planning models that can be used by organizations, including the Strategy Map, Balanced Scorecard, SWOT Analysis, PEST Analysis, Gap Planning, Blue Ocean Strategy, Porter's Five Forces, and VRIO Framework. It provides overview and examples of each model. The models can be used to analyze internal/external factors, identify goals and measures, compare current/desired states, explore new market opportunities, and evaluate competitive advantages. While each has strengths, the best model depends on an organization's specific context and needs.
The document provides an overview of the strategic planning process, including defining mission and objectives, conducting an environmental scan through tools like PEST analysis and SWOT analysis, formulating strategy, implementing strategy, and evaluating performance. It discusses strategic planning at the corporate, business unit, and functional levels. Key frameworks covered include Porter's five forces, generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus, and the value chain.
Stages and Approaches to educational planningReina Antonette
This document outlines the key stages and approaches to educational planning. It discusses the stages of the educational planning process which include collecting statistical information, evolving policy proposals, making projections and programming, costing educational plans, and making decisions, implementing, and evaluating plans. It also analyzes the traditional and strategic approaches to educational planning and contrasts their differences. The major approaches covered are the social demand, cost-benefit analysis, and manpower planning approaches.
Fundamental Concepts of STRATEGIC PLANNINGMariyah Ayoniv
Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy or direction to allocate resources to pursue its strategy. It generally deals with what the organization does, who it does it for, and how it excels. Strategic planning involves analyzing the internal and external environment, setting goals and objectives, identifying strategies with timelines and tasks, allocating resources, implementing plans, and evaluating results. The key aspects of strategic planning include clarifying objectives, diagnosing current conditions, assessing alternatives, translating plans into action, and adjusting through evaluation.
Planning is a vital process for schools that helps set priorities, accomplish goals, and improve programs. It involves organized thinking to determine what needs to be done, how it will be done, and who will do it. A good planning process stimulates improvement, anticipates the future, involves stakeholders, and adapts to changing needs. Planning establishes objectives and targets for educational development over a defined period using available resources. It is an ongoing, dynamic process of preparing decisions to achieve goals through optimal means.
This document discusses various aspects of planning in management. It outlines the key managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, and controlling. Planning involves determining future actions, including what will be done, how it will be done, and when. Important aspects of planning include providing direction, reducing risks and uncertainties, and establishing standards for control. The document also discusses types of plans like objectives, strategies, programs, budgets, policies, procedures, methods, and rules. It outlines the steps and characteristics of strategy formulation, including determining objectives, SWOT analysis, and consistency with the internal and external environment. Policy formulation and evaluation of strategies are also summarized.
This document discusses various aspects of planning and decision making. It defines planning as setting objectives and determining courses of action to achieve goals while considering uncertainty. There are three types of uncertainty - state, effect, and response. The document outlines the importance of planning, classification of plans, types of plans including strategic, tactical, operational and business plans. It also discusses objectives, strategies, policies, procedures, rules, programs, budgets and provides examples of each. Lastly, it discusses reasons why planning may fail and provides an example of the planning process.
Educational planning aims to make education more effective and efficient in responding to student and societal needs. It involves applying rational analysis to the educational development process. While educational planning has ancient roots, the rapid changes in the postwar period necessitated a new approach with longer time horizons, comprehensive scope, integration with broader development plans, involvement in management, and focus on both quantitative and qualitative improvement. Recent progress emphasizes these elements of modern educational planning theory and methodology.
This document discusses various aspects of planning including definitions, types of planning processes, and differences between strategic and operational planning. It defines planning as "the management function that includes decisions and actions to insure future results." There are two main types of planning - strategic planning which establishes long-term direction and priorities, and operational planning which focuses on short-term goals and day-to-day activities. Strategic planning involves analyzing internal/external factors, setting goals and objectives, and identifying strategies, while operational planning develops detailed action plans and controls to implement strategic plans.
Management planning & implementationHomework Guru
Planning is the most important function of management and involves deciding in advance what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and who will do it. The document discusses the definitions, nature, and importance of planning. It explains that planning involves setting objectives and strategies, establishing premises, identifying alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and selecting a plan. The key steps in planning are establishing objectives and premises, identifying alternatives, evaluating alternatives, selecting an alternative, formulating supportive plans, and establishing sequences of activities. Planning allows organizations to anticipate changes, adapt to changes, and work towards goals in an integrated and flexible manner.
This Powerpoint presentation describes the fundamental elements of the management tool known as the Balanced Scorecard. It covers the fundamental building blocks of Balanced Scorecard, It's important, it's relation to strategy, a case study using this approach and how BSC can be used in improving quality, time and throughput of a company.
The document discusses concepts of educational planning. It outlines the main stages of educational planning as collecting and analyzing statistical information, evolving policy proposals, projecting and programming plans, costing educational plans, and decision making, implementation and evaluation. It also discusses the nature of educational planning as forecasting, interpretation, setting goals and objectives, decision making, optimization of operations, and problem prevention. Key features include planning being a continuous process to achieve educational objectives and link a society's educational system to its goals.
The document discusses planning in education. It defines planning as a process of decision making for future actions to achieve objectives through optimal resource use. Key aspects of planning discussed include approaches to planning, perspective planning, institutional planning, and manpower planning. The document outlines the methodology of educational planning, including diagnosing the situation, setting targets, developing intervention strategies, costing and budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
This document discusses strategy evaluation and control. It outlines that strategic evaluation assesses whether the chosen strategy is being implemented and meeting objectives. There needs to be an evaluation system, reward system, and effective information system. Evaluation should happen at different organizational levels and determine if modifications are needed. Criteria for evaluation can include quantitative factors like financial results compared to history and competitors, as well as qualitative factors like consistency with objectives and environmental assumptions. Feedback is used to determine causes of deviations and take corrective action.
This document discusses strategic planning concepts for an organization including vision, mission, business definition, objectives, and goals. It defines each concept and provides examples. The vision is a description of the future environment an organization wants to create. The mission defines the organization's role in society by addressing a specific societal need. Objectives are quantifiable end results to be achieved by a certain time. Goals are intermediate results that contribute to achieving objectives. The business definition clarifies what business the organization is in or should be in. Setting objectives and goals helps coordinate decisions, formulate strategies, and assess performance.
The document discusses planning and project management in the context of corporate and organizational development. It defines the relationships between corporate planning, programming, and project management. Corporate planning involves strategic, tactical, and annual planning to achieve organizational goals. Programming breaks long-range plans into intermediate programs, and project management identifies specific projects to implement programs. Projects have defined life cycles from initiation to evaluation. Project management ensures projects meet goals on time and within budget.
This document discusses different perspectives in strategic planning, including down-board thinking, paradigm shifts, and planning orientations. Down-board thinking involves considering future scenarios and competitor responses several moves ahead. A paradigm shift requires changing old ways of thinking to a more flexible framework suited to current reality. There are three planning orientations: system approach views the organization holistically; mega-level looks at different environmental levels; and outside-in plans from society's perspective and challenges the status quo. Traditional management focuses on control while management in a learning organization balances human and business systems to understand connections and inspire learning.
This document outlines the strategic planning process for an organization. It discusses that strategic planning involves defining a strategy and allocating resources to pursue the strategy. The strategic planning process consists of three main steps - strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation. Strategy formulation involves assessing the internal and external environment through a SWOT analysis. Strategy implementation is putting the plan into action by setting short-term goals. Strategy evaluation reviews performance and makes adjustments. Key aspects of the process include defining vision, mission, goals, and department objectives to align the organization.
This document discusses educational planning and quality teacher training programs in the Philippines. It describes the establishment of the Ateneo Teacher Center (ATC) in 1985 to provide retraining programs for basic education teachers. The ATC conducts seminars, workshops, and programs to help upgrade teachers' skills. It also assists schools in developing instructional materials and reading programs. While focusing on professional development, the ATC could expand to address teachers' personal and organizational development as well. The document emphasizes the importance of quality education and defining what constitutes a quality education system in the Philippines.
This PowerPoint presentation was made to understand what Strategic Planning is.
FRANCO, stresses that planning should build on past gains or achievements: at the same time, however, it should start new initiatives and strike for new grounds precisely because change never ends, is always taking place, and will even be more complex and rapid in years ahead.
This document outlines a presentation on strategic planning. It defines strategic planning as a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape an organization's goals and strategy. The key points are:
- Strategic planning involves determining long-term goals, objectives, and allocating resources to achieve them.
- It is a participatory process to develop a shared vision and hold people accountable.
- Developing a strategic plan follows steps like assessing the situation, creating a mission/vision, developing strategies/goals/objectives, and implementing and evaluating the plan.
- Strategic planning in nursing helps set formal plans, improve communication, and focus on quality outputs to enhance nurse performance.
The document discusses the implementation phase of the strategic planning process. It involves carrying out plans, programs, and projects according to the strategic plan in order to achieve goals and objectives. Key aspects of implementation include establishing structure and governance, identifying institutional and individual accountability, financing plans, and executing plans through annual action plans, budgeting, and monitoring of programs and projects. The final phase of strategic planning is evaluation, which determines if goals were achieved and identifies lessons learned to improve future plans.
This document discusses the importance of educational planning and provides guidance on how to plan effectively. It outlines a 6-stage process for planning: 1) environmental scanning and data collection, 2) setting objectives, 3) generating and selecting strategies, 4) translating strategies into operational plans, 5) implementing the plan, and 6) evaluating and modifying the plan. The planning process should be systematic, realistic, sustained, and revisited annually to ensure the school can adapt to changes. Effective planning helps set priorities, respond to community needs, improve teaching quality, and provide consistency of purpose and direction.
Introduction to financial planning
Meaning of financial planning
Definition of financial planning
Meaning of Financial Plan
Objectives of financial planning
Essentials/Characteristics of a sound financial plan
Considerations in formulating financial plan
Steps in financial planning
Limitations of financial planning
This document summarizes a book that analyzes the costs and expenditures of education. It discusses key concepts in analyzing educational costs, including the different components of costs to the community and different methods for conducting cost analysis. The book addresses both overall cost analysis of an entire education system as well as detailed cost analysis at more granular levels. It aims to help educational planners and administrators understand the complexities involved in analyzing and interpreting educational costs.
Definition of strategy - strategic human resource managementmanumelwin
Strategy is about deciding where you want to go and how you mean to get there.
A strategy is a declaration of intent: ‘This is what we want to do and this is how we intend to do it.’
7. COST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PROJECT BY GAURANG SHARMA.docx0102192528
This document discusses a balanced scorecard framework used by companies for strategic planning and performance measurement. It begins by acknowledging those who supported the author's MBA project. It then provides an introduction to balanced scorecards and their key features. The main body explains the four perspectives of a balanced scorecard: financial, customer, internal business processes, and organizational capacity. It discusses what each perspective measures and how they are related. The conclusion reiterates that the four perspectives provide a framework for describing business strategy and linking objectives across levels of an organization.
Strategy creates context for operating decisions.
It establishes the playing field and provides guidance for decision-making, the experience and skills needed by employees, positioning of marketing and advertising, the priority of initiatives, how to structure the company, and a many other issues.
In developing strategy, leaders make conscious and informed choices about who they are and what they stand for:
–What are our core values and beliefs?
–What markets and customer groups will we serve?
–What products and services will we offer and how profitable is each one?
–What infrastructure, core processes and resources must we have to succeed?
–What competitive advantages will cause us to succeed?
–What core competencies must we have to fuel our growth?
–How will we sell our products and services?
–How will we market our products and services?
–What financial results will we achieve?
In this A to Z we will cover some of the main elements of business strategy and give you some tricks and tips along the way!
Educational planning aims to make education more effective and efficient in responding to student and societal needs. It involves applying rational analysis to the educational development process. While educational planning has ancient roots, the rapid changes in the postwar period necessitated a new approach with longer time horizons, comprehensive scope, integration with broader development plans, involvement in management, and focus on both quantitative and qualitative improvement. Recent progress emphasizes these elements of modern educational planning theory and methodology.
This document discusses various aspects of planning including definitions, types of planning processes, and differences between strategic and operational planning. It defines planning as "the management function that includes decisions and actions to insure future results." There are two main types of planning - strategic planning which establishes long-term direction and priorities, and operational planning which focuses on short-term goals and day-to-day activities. Strategic planning involves analyzing internal/external factors, setting goals and objectives, and identifying strategies, while operational planning develops detailed action plans and controls to implement strategic plans.
Management planning & implementationHomework Guru
Planning is the most important function of management and involves deciding in advance what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and who will do it. The document discusses the definitions, nature, and importance of planning. It explains that planning involves setting objectives and strategies, establishing premises, identifying alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and selecting a plan. The key steps in planning are establishing objectives and premises, identifying alternatives, evaluating alternatives, selecting an alternative, formulating supportive plans, and establishing sequences of activities. Planning allows organizations to anticipate changes, adapt to changes, and work towards goals in an integrated and flexible manner.
This Powerpoint presentation describes the fundamental elements of the management tool known as the Balanced Scorecard. It covers the fundamental building blocks of Balanced Scorecard, It's important, it's relation to strategy, a case study using this approach and how BSC can be used in improving quality, time and throughput of a company.
The document discusses concepts of educational planning. It outlines the main stages of educational planning as collecting and analyzing statistical information, evolving policy proposals, projecting and programming plans, costing educational plans, and decision making, implementation and evaluation. It also discusses the nature of educational planning as forecasting, interpretation, setting goals and objectives, decision making, optimization of operations, and problem prevention. Key features include planning being a continuous process to achieve educational objectives and link a society's educational system to its goals.
The document discusses planning in education. It defines planning as a process of decision making for future actions to achieve objectives through optimal resource use. Key aspects of planning discussed include approaches to planning, perspective planning, institutional planning, and manpower planning. The document outlines the methodology of educational planning, including diagnosing the situation, setting targets, developing intervention strategies, costing and budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
This document discusses strategy evaluation and control. It outlines that strategic evaluation assesses whether the chosen strategy is being implemented and meeting objectives. There needs to be an evaluation system, reward system, and effective information system. Evaluation should happen at different organizational levels and determine if modifications are needed. Criteria for evaluation can include quantitative factors like financial results compared to history and competitors, as well as qualitative factors like consistency with objectives and environmental assumptions. Feedback is used to determine causes of deviations and take corrective action.
This document discusses strategic planning concepts for an organization including vision, mission, business definition, objectives, and goals. It defines each concept and provides examples. The vision is a description of the future environment an organization wants to create. The mission defines the organization's role in society by addressing a specific societal need. Objectives are quantifiable end results to be achieved by a certain time. Goals are intermediate results that contribute to achieving objectives. The business definition clarifies what business the organization is in or should be in. Setting objectives and goals helps coordinate decisions, formulate strategies, and assess performance.
The document discusses planning and project management in the context of corporate and organizational development. It defines the relationships between corporate planning, programming, and project management. Corporate planning involves strategic, tactical, and annual planning to achieve organizational goals. Programming breaks long-range plans into intermediate programs, and project management identifies specific projects to implement programs. Projects have defined life cycles from initiation to evaluation. Project management ensures projects meet goals on time and within budget.
This document discusses different perspectives in strategic planning, including down-board thinking, paradigm shifts, and planning orientations. Down-board thinking involves considering future scenarios and competitor responses several moves ahead. A paradigm shift requires changing old ways of thinking to a more flexible framework suited to current reality. There are three planning orientations: system approach views the organization holistically; mega-level looks at different environmental levels; and outside-in plans from society's perspective and challenges the status quo. Traditional management focuses on control while management in a learning organization balances human and business systems to understand connections and inspire learning.
This document outlines the strategic planning process for an organization. It discusses that strategic planning involves defining a strategy and allocating resources to pursue the strategy. The strategic planning process consists of three main steps - strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation. Strategy formulation involves assessing the internal and external environment through a SWOT analysis. Strategy implementation is putting the plan into action by setting short-term goals. Strategy evaluation reviews performance and makes adjustments. Key aspects of the process include defining vision, mission, goals, and department objectives to align the organization.
This document discusses educational planning and quality teacher training programs in the Philippines. It describes the establishment of the Ateneo Teacher Center (ATC) in 1985 to provide retraining programs for basic education teachers. The ATC conducts seminars, workshops, and programs to help upgrade teachers' skills. It also assists schools in developing instructional materials and reading programs. While focusing on professional development, the ATC could expand to address teachers' personal and organizational development as well. The document emphasizes the importance of quality education and defining what constitutes a quality education system in the Philippines.
This PowerPoint presentation was made to understand what Strategic Planning is.
FRANCO, stresses that planning should build on past gains or achievements: at the same time, however, it should start new initiatives and strike for new grounds precisely because change never ends, is always taking place, and will even be more complex and rapid in years ahead.
This document outlines a presentation on strategic planning. It defines strategic planning as a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape an organization's goals and strategy. The key points are:
- Strategic planning involves determining long-term goals, objectives, and allocating resources to achieve them.
- It is a participatory process to develop a shared vision and hold people accountable.
- Developing a strategic plan follows steps like assessing the situation, creating a mission/vision, developing strategies/goals/objectives, and implementing and evaluating the plan.
- Strategic planning in nursing helps set formal plans, improve communication, and focus on quality outputs to enhance nurse performance.
The document discusses the implementation phase of the strategic planning process. It involves carrying out plans, programs, and projects according to the strategic plan in order to achieve goals and objectives. Key aspects of implementation include establishing structure and governance, identifying institutional and individual accountability, financing plans, and executing plans through annual action plans, budgeting, and monitoring of programs and projects. The final phase of strategic planning is evaluation, which determines if goals were achieved and identifies lessons learned to improve future plans.
This document discusses the importance of educational planning and provides guidance on how to plan effectively. It outlines a 6-stage process for planning: 1) environmental scanning and data collection, 2) setting objectives, 3) generating and selecting strategies, 4) translating strategies into operational plans, 5) implementing the plan, and 6) evaluating and modifying the plan. The planning process should be systematic, realistic, sustained, and revisited annually to ensure the school can adapt to changes. Effective planning helps set priorities, respond to community needs, improve teaching quality, and provide consistency of purpose and direction.
Introduction to financial planning
Meaning of financial planning
Definition of financial planning
Meaning of Financial Plan
Objectives of financial planning
Essentials/Characteristics of a sound financial plan
Considerations in formulating financial plan
Steps in financial planning
Limitations of financial planning
This document summarizes a book that analyzes the costs and expenditures of education. It discusses key concepts in analyzing educational costs, including the different components of costs to the community and different methods for conducting cost analysis. The book addresses both overall cost analysis of an entire education system as well as detailed cost analysis at more granular levels. It aims to help educational planners and administrators understand the complexities involved in analyzing and interpreting educational costs.
Definition of strategy - strategic human resource managementmanumelwin
Strategy is about deciding where you want to go and how you mean to get there.
A strategy is a declaration of intent: ‘This is what we want to do and this is how we intend to do it.’
7. COST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PROJECT BY GAURANG SHARMA.docx0102192528
This document discusses a balanced scorecard framework used by companies for strategic planning and performance measurement. It begins by acknowledging those who supported the author's MBA project. It then provides an introduction to balanced scorecards and their key features. The main body explains the four perspectives of a balanced scorecard: financial, customer, internal business processes, and organizational capacity. It discusses what each perspective measures and how they are related. The conclusion reiterates that the four perspectives provide a framework for describing business strategy and linking objectives across levels of an organization.
Strategy creates context for operating decisions.
It establishes the playing field and provides guidance for decision-making, the experience and skills needed by employees, positioning of marketing and advertising, the priority of initiatives, how to structure the company, and a many other issues.
In developing strategy, leaders make conscious and informed choices about who they are and what they stand for:
–What are our core values and beliefs?
–What markets and customer groups will we serve?
–What products and services will we offer and how profitable is each one?
–What infrastructure, core processes and resources must we have to succeed?
–What competitive advantages will cause us to succeed?
–What core competencies must we have to fuel our growth?
–How will we sell our products and services?
–How will we market our products and services?
–What financial results will we achieve?
In this A to Z we will cover some of the main elements of business strategy and give you some tricks and tips along the way!
The document discusses how revenue growth is the largest driver of shareholder return but many CEOs focus on cost cutting instead of growth initiatives. It outlines a 4-step process companies can follow to systematically accelerate revenue growth: 1) Define and focus resources on the core business, 2) Establish a common set of market facts and insights, 3) Select the most powerful growth initiatives to implement well, 4) Master the process of change management. The first step is using a "spider chart" to identify the core customers, products, channels and geographies that make up 80% of profits in order to focus on high-potential opportunities within the existing business.
Many small and medium sized enterprises [SME] owners already know what needs to be done to grow their business but lack the time and/or resources to bring about the necessary changes.
Others may simply be reluctant or restrained by tradition to make a shift.
Change is difficult.
This series attempts to help answer the question, "How will owners [like me] make the necessary changes to aggressively grow their business in 2014 — and beyond?”
The second presentation in a 3 part series on Fast and Sustainable Business Growth - how to thrive, not just survive regardless of the economy.
The Course Forward is hazardous, but staying put is worse. …Applied Knowledge is Power
Access The Science of Small Business Growth to maximize your current operations.
Business Plan is a document required at the time of funding your business or ...ymandhanya
The document outlines the purpose and steps involved in creating a business plan. It discusses that a business plan is a blueprint that identifies business opportunities and converts ideas into successful ventures. It involves tasks like identifying strengths/weaknesses, assessing feasibility, and allocating resources. The business plan gives direction to entrepreneurs, helps evaluate prospects, seeks loans, and helps with decision making. The steps involved include preliminary investigation of the idea and environment, generating business ideas, and scanning the internal and external environment.
The document provides information on initial business planning, including the importance of developing a business plan and key components to include. It discusses how a business plan describes a company's goals and operations, while the business model details how the company will achieve those goals. The document also includes a template for an initial business plan, covering topics like the company description, market analysis, management structure, products/services, and financial projections.
The document discusses strategic planning and its importance for project managers. It outlines the key elements of strategic planning, including goal setting, strategy development, customer and internal business analysis, strategic choices, implementation, and evaluation. It argues that project managers need to understand business strategies in order to position themselves as partners rather than just hands, and that linking projects to corporate strategies is critical for success. A basic knowledge of strategic planning principles is necessary for project managers to fulfill this role effectively.
This document provides an overview of key components of a business plan, including:
1. The executive summary which clearly states what is being asked for upfront.
2. The business description which outlines the industry, products/services, and plans for success.
3. The marketplace section which describes customers, competition, and market positioning.
4. The financial section containing income/cash flow statements, balance sheets, and break-even analyses.
Key components within these sections include business concept, market strategies, competitive analysis, operations/management plans, and financial factors. The length of a business plan can vary depending on the complexity of the business but typically ranges from 15-20 pages.
Human resource - Performance Management -The Balanced ScorecardSampath Samudrala
The balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system developed in the early 1990s. It provides a framework for translating an organization's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures. The balanced scorecard suggests that organizations must balance four perspectives - financial, customer, internal business process, and learning and growth. Each perspective contains objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives. Together these provide managers with a comprehensive picture of an organization's overall health.
The document provides an overview of the balanced scorecard framework. It discusses the four perspectives of the balanced scorecard (financial, customer, internal processes, learning and growth), strategic objectives, key performance indicators, and the development process. The key features of an effective balanced scorecard implementation and software include strategy maps, cascaded scorecards, communication tools, automated scoring, initiative management, and integration with other business tools. The balanced scorecard is a strategy implementation and management framework that links strategic priorities to objectives, measures, targets and initiatives.
Managerial skills and Business ethics and Business planSusrit Basnet
The document discusses managerial skills and the business planning process. It begins by outlining the four main types of managerial skills: conceptual skills, human skills, technical skills, and communication skills. It then describes the seven steps of decision making: diagnosing problems, analyzing problems, generating alternatives, evaluating alternatives, reaching decisions, choosing implementation strategies, and monitoring and evaluating. The remainder of the document focuses on building a business plan, outlining the seven essential sections including executive summary, company description, market analysis, organization and management, marketing plan, funding request, and financial projections.
The Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning and management framework that helps organizations translate their mission and vision into tangible objectives and measures across four perspectives: financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. It provides a balanced view of both financial and non-financial metrics and performance indicators to measure how well an organization is executing its strategy. The Balanced Scorecard methodology starts by identifying strategic objectives, then establishes measures, sets targets, and identifies strategic initiatives to drive improvement across the four perspectives.
Growth Stage Technology Business Evaluation and Strengthening - Nov 2010 - Da...Dave Litwiller
Performance indicators to monitor and operational disciplines to improve to achieve the highest growth rate, financial return and strategic impact in growth-stage technology-based businesses.
An Overview of Corporate Finance and the Financial Environment.pdfCynthia Velynne
This document provides an overview of different types of business organizations: sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Sole proprietorships are owned by one individual and have unlimited liability but are easy to form. Partnerships have two or more owners with unlimited liability but are also easy to form. Corporations have limited liability for owners, unlimited lifespan, and easy ownership transfer through stock shares, making them better able to raise capital. Most large businesses are organized as corporations to maximize value. Managing agencies is a potential problem for corporations that is addressed through governance structures.
This document provides guidance for new sales managers on effectively managing a sales team. It outlines 3 key steps: 1) Get to know the staff, their clients, and opportunities through individual meetings, territory tours, and testing product knowledge. 2) Conduct a territory analysis to understand trends, structure, and goals and expand the customer base. 3) Identify internal processes, resources, tools, and reporting needs and develop collaborative relationships within the company. The overall goal is for the manager to evaluate the current state and set a foundation for ongoing success through organized operational structures and development of the sales team.
The balanced scorecard is a performance measurement framework that was developed to help organizations implement their strategies by translating strategic objectives into tangible goals and measures across four perspectives: financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. It provides managers with a comprehensive view of business performance that more closely aligns operational activities to the vision and strategy of the organization. The balanced scorecard approach links long-term strategic objectives to short-term actions, allowing organizations to track progress and make necessary adjustments to ensure the achievement of goals.
The document provides an overview of some of the most admired companies according to Fortune magazine. It discusses that these companies excel in areas like innovation, management quality, employee talent, product/service quality, long-term value, financial soundness, social responsibility, and use of corporate assets. It also notes that these companies focus on using technology to reduce costs and improve processes. The companies have been able to generate high stock returns due to their ability to create value for customers, employees, and other stakeholders, which allows them to generate strong cash flows.
This document discusses concepts related to urbanization, urbanism, and cities. Some key points:
- Urbanization is defined as the process of populations moving from rural to urban areas, causing cities and towns to grow. It is influenced by economic, political, and social advantages of urban living.
- Urbanism refers to the way of life in cities, and the social and cultural consequences of dense, heterogeneous urban populations. It involves more competition, specialization, and impersonal relationships than rural areas.
- New Urbanism is an urban planning movement that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods to encourage healthier, more sustainable living. It aims to build a sense of community while adopting ecological practices.
The document discusses different approaches to rural development:
1. Past anti-poverty efforts in the Philippines from the 1960s to 1990s by successive presidents met with little success, as described by one observer.
2. A theory of change approach helps identify effective solutions to address the underlying causes of problems hindering progress, considering the UN's comparative advantages.
3. Key principles for developing a theory of change include developing it consultatively to reflect stakeholders' understanding, grounding it in evidence, and supporting continuous learning.
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Planning and Budgeting helps organizations set targets and generate budgets by enabling different departments to collaborate using shared assumptions and tools. Effective planning requires assessing an organization's past approaches and addressing cultural issues to support current processes. Budgeting involves preparing, legislating, executing, and ensuring accountability for budgets through classification of expenditures and an organized structure. The budgeting process allows organizations to review past performance, forecast revenues, assign costs, and communicate budgets clearly.
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Canadian Immigration Tracker - Key Slides - April 2024pdfAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents increased as did percentage of TR2PR to 62 percent of all Permanent Residents.
Asylum claimants stable at about 16,000 per month.
Study permit applications flat following last month’s drop due to announced caps. Study permit web interests has also been declining on a year-over-year basis.
While IMP numbers have declined, TFWP numbers have increased reflecting seasonal agriculture workers and those under LMIAs.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Peace, Conflict and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) ProcessesNAP Global Network
Conflict-affected countries dealing with national defense issues, the deaths and suffering of their people, and a fragile peace environment might find it challenging to prioritize climate change action. However, ignoring their adaptation needs while striving to promote peace would be a mistake, as there are close links between climate change and fragility.
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Nearly 80 million people were under alerts in the US north-east and midwest yesterday as temperatures in some municipalities reached record highs in a test to the country’s rickety power grid.
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2. Effective Strategic
Planning Models
Strategy Map
Balanced Scorecard
SWOT Analysis
PEST Mode
Gap Planning
Blue Ocean Strategy
Porter's Five Forces
VRIO Framework
By:
3. Strategy Map
A strategy map is a diagram that shows your
organization's strategy on a single page. It's great for
quickly communicating big-picture objectives to
everyone in the company. With a well-designed strategy
map, every employee can know your overallstrategy and
where they fit in.
4. Societal Goals/Outcomes
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Sectoral Goals/Outcomes
Organizational Outcomes
Major Final Outputs (Citizen Focused & Product Results)
Financial Stewardship Internal Process
Leadership,
Learning,& Growth
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Program
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Socio-
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5. Strategy Map
Benefits:
It provides a simple, clean, visual representation that is easily
referred back to.
It unifies all goals into a single strategy.
It gives every employee a clear goal to keep in mind while
accomplishing tasks and measures.
It helps identify your key goals.
It allows you to better understand which elements of your strategy
need work.
It helps you see how your objectives affect the others.
6. A strategy map is an amazing communication device that
serves some excellent purposes. It allows your organization
to provide focus internally and show your customers and
investors where you’re on track. But it can be even more
powerful when used as the first step toward a Balanced
Scorecard (BSC).
7. Balanced Scorecard
The Balanced Scorecard is a strategy management framework
created by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton. It takes into account
your:
Objectives, which are high-level organizational goals.
Measures, which help you understand if you’re accomplishing
your objective strategically.
Initiatives, which are key action programs that help you achieve
your objectives.
10. The first process—translating the vision—helps
managers build a consensus concerning a company’s
strategy and express it in terms that can guide action at
the local level.
The second—communicating and linking—calls for
communicating a strategy at all levels of the
organization and linking it with unit and individual goals.
11. The third—business planning—enables companies to integrate
their business plans with their financial plans. The fourth—
feedback and learning—gives companies the capacity for
strategic learning, which consists of gathering feedback, testing
the hypotheses on which a strategy is based, and making
necessary adjustments.
12. Financial Perspective
Primary goal is to grow our profits. This is driven by two
other goals: manage costs and grow revenue. Having three
financial perspective goals is simple and fairly typical. Your
organization may want to consider being more specific
about your goals, like “double revenue in three years” or
“manage overhead expenses.”
13. Customer Perspective
How must we look to our customers?” You
may list things like “quality of product,”
“knowledgeable service,” or “ease of use.” Try
not to list everything—just the top three or
four things.
14. From there, consider your customer strategy. Are you trying to
grow revenue from your current customers or grow the number
of customers? You might say both, but it’s important to be very
clear about your strategy here. Some organizations put their
customer objectives in the voice of the customer, such as “X
has the best service” or “we view X as a partner.” Other
companies may also list the basic customer needs, like
“competitive pricing,” “quality offering,” or “great warranty.”
You may not measure these, but it is important to communicate
them on the map.
Customer Perspective
15. Internal Perspective
These are the internal processes or things that your organization
must do well in order to make your customers happy (and
manage your expenses). Many organizations now use themes
in order to better group their internal processes
Innovation—This could be product, process, or service
innovation and is the lifeblood of your long-term company future
So, what do you need to invest in to ensure long-term
organizational success? How will you innovate? Put two or three
objectives in this section.
16. Customer Management—Think about the internal processes
you have that will keep your customers happy. Perhaps this is
how you support your customers or how you listen to them for
feedback on the next generation of interaction. Maybe you’re
migrating them from one platform to another (paper vs..
electronic, for example). all link to the customer perspective and
outcomes.
Internal Perspective
17. Operational excellence—Think about managing your own
business and becoming more cost effective. Are you reducing
waste or improving output? Perhaps you’re ready to
restructure your operations for efficiency’s sake. This theme
may link directly to the financial goal of managing costs.
Internal Perspective
18. Learning & Growth
Look at things from a “people” perspective. Perhaps two
of these goals might be to “build engineering talent”
and “institute greater accountability” throughout the
organization. consider what skills you need that are
related to your strategy, what kind of culture you value,
and whether there are any tools or resources you need
for your staff.
19. Learning & Growth
Retirement – Apply succession planning and skills
transfer to potential staff; IPCR/OPCR and monitor
results
20. 2CG, a strategic execution consultancy firm, has been conducting yearly surveys about the
Balanced Scorecard since 2009 in an effort to better understand why and how it’s used. (You can
find results from all nine of 2CG’s studies here.) Of the organizations that participated in the
survey:
77% report that their Balanced Scorecard is extremely or very useful.
75% use the Balanced Scorecard to influence business actions.
Of the 64% of organizations that have refreshed their Balanced Scorecard, the majority—
71%—did so during the previous 12 months.
The Balanced Scorecard is used by both small and large organizations: 61% of
respondents had less than 500 employees, and 9% had over 10,000 employees.
22. SWOT Analysis – Applicable to All
Industries
A SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix) is a high-level model used at
the beginning of an organization’s strategic Planning. It is an
acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
threats.” Strengths and weaknesses are considered internal
factors, and opportunities and threats are considered external
factors.
23. Strengths
Able to respond very quickly as we have no red tape, and
no need for higher management approval.
Able to give really good customer care, as the current
small amount of work means we have plenty of time to
devote to customers.
Our lead consultant has a strong reputation in the market.
We can change direction quickly if we find that our
marketing is not working.
Low overheads, so we can offer good value to customers.
24. Strengths
Start by asking the question, “What are we good at?” This is a broad question, but in the
beginning stages of your discussion, you should accept all answers.
Financial Strengths: What is your most reliable source of financial growth? Is it your current
customers? A particular product? Your service fee structure?
Customer Strengths: Where is your customer growth coming from? Is this coming from
referrals, or a particular industry segment like healthcare or retail? Is it mainly retail or
commercial? Why are your customers choosing you over your competitors?
Internal Strengths: What do you do very well as an organization? Are you the first to
innovate products in your industry? Do you have strong customer relationships or
partnerships?
Learning & Growth Strengths: Where do you excel insofar as your employees are
concerned? Is it your compensation model? Could it be your workforce development
program? Your culture?
25. Weaknesses
Our company has little market presence or reputation.
We have a small staff, with a shallow skills base in many
areas.
We are vulnerable to vital staff being sick or leaving.
Our cash flow will be unreliable in the early stages.
26. Weaknesses
Financial Weaknesses: What is your biggest financial weakness? Perhaps most of your
customers are in a cyclical industry and subject to market whims, for example. Or
maybe your most used product has the lowest profit margins.
Customer Weaknesses: Where do your customers think you need to improve? This
could be your investment products, locations, loan origination, or competitive prices for
interest rates.
Internal Weaknesses: What do you do poorly? Do you have opportunities to improve in
project management for opening new branches? What about for one-touch call
resolution for customer service?
Learning & Growth Weaknesses: What are your biggest challenges with employees? Do
you have particularly high turnover in certain departments or a negative perception of
the organizational culture?
27. Opportunities
Our business sector is expanding, with many
future opportunities for success.
Local government wants to encourage local
businesses.
Our competitors may be slow to adopt new
technologies.
28. Opportunities
Financial Opportunities: What is your biggest opportunity to improve your finances? This
might be starting a new product line, increasing customer retention, or going after a new
geographical area.
Customer Opportunities: Where could you dramatically improve with your customers? Could
you improve your online interface? What about cross-selling related products, or better
understanding your customers’ purchasing habits?
Internal Opportunities: What processes will drive you well into the future if you could
improve upon them? This may entail partnering with a mortgage origination company or
developing neighborhood sponsorships.
Learning & Growth Opportunities: What opportunities do you have to leverage staff? For
example, do you have cross-training opportunities? Could you make a few tweaks to
improve your culture and thus your retention?
29. Threats
Developments in technology may change this market
beyond our ability to adapt.
A small change in the focus of a large competitor
might wipe out any market position we achieve.
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30. Threats
Financial Threats: What threats could seriously impact your financial health? This could be
low-cost competitors, a partner entering the banking space, or an overseas banking
product.
Customer Threats: What is your biggest concern about your customers? Does one of your
competitors offer zero-fee checking that could steal some of your market share? How
simple is your customers’ ease of departure?
Internal Threats: What current areas of your business might harm you later? Do you have a
new product rollout soon that could potentially fail? Are you struggling through a merger
or an office upgrade?
Learning & Growth Threats: What threatens the people within your organization? This could
be anything from instability in your customer support department to staff member
departures to a department-specific pushback against new technology.
32. Some reasons that a company might kick off a gap analysis include the following:
•Benchmarking: Comparing results against external criteria. A computer company may want to see where
they stand against industry performance criteria, or a candy company may want to compare their reputation
with their competitors.
•Portfolio Analysis: Examining their product portfolio to look for new sales opportunities, a company can use
a gap analysis to identify new products to sell. In the opposite direction, they can also look for existing
products that are not selling well, use a gap analysis to find out why, then promote them (e.g. feature them
more promentilty in marketing or put them on sale), change them to better meet customer needs, or remove
them from their portfolio.
•Profits: If a forecast profit percentage isn’t reached, a company can use a gap analysis to determine what
went wrong, and whether it was in planning or execution. Was the organization paying higher-than-expected
expenses for materials, or having to lower prices due to unexpected competition?
Gap Analysis
33. •Processes: A gap analysis can help reveal the shortcomings of processes, so that the real outcomes match
the expected outcomes. A shipping firm could examine their AP process to see why so many of their
are not getting paid on time, or examine their billing processes to see why many of their suppliers don’t get
their invoices until after the due date.
•Performance Indicators: A gap analysis can also be applied to key performance indicators like new
customer acquisition, average order amount, or return on investment (ROI). A mobile carrier could look for
reasons that caused them to miss their customer acquisition goal, or a seafood company could seek the
reasons they didn’t process as much salmon as expected.
•Usage Gaps: A usage gap is the difference between current market size for a product or service, and the
potential market size. A gap analysis in this area can help an organization see why they are not reaching
full potential. Is a company's reputation pushing down sales? Or did management misread the demand for
product?
35. Gap Planning
Gap planning is also referred to as a “Need-Gap Analysis,”
“Need Assessment,” or “the Strategic-Planning Gap.” It is
used to compare where an organization is now, where it
wants to be, and how to bridge the gap between. It is
primarily used to identify specific internal deficiencies.
Gap analysis: The right method for
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36. Gap Planning
In your gap planning research, you may also hear about a
“change agenda” or “shift chart.” These are similar to gap
planning, as they both take into consideration the
difference between where you are now and where you
want to be along various axes. From there, your planning
process is about how to ‘close the gap.’
38. VRIO Framework
The VRIO is an acronym for value, rarity,
limitability, organization.” This framework relates more to
your vision statement than your overall strategy. The
ultimate goal in implementing the VRIO model is that it
will result in a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
39. Value: Are you able to exploit an opportunity or neutralize an outside
threat using a particular resource?
Rarity: Is there a great deal of competition in your market, or do only a
few companies control the resource referred to above?
Iimitability: Is your organization’s product or service easily imitated, or
would it be difficult for another organization to do so?
Organization: Is your company organized enough to be able to exploit
your product or resource?
40. Is one strategic planning model better than the others?
Some of these frameworks have been around longer than others, or
been used in various case studies in different ways. And sometimes
managers are more comfortable with one over another, for a any
number of reasons.
We recommend determining which of these strategic planning models
applies most to your organization’s way of thinking.
41. For example, if you still need to work out your vision statement, it may be
wise to begin with the VRIO framework and then move to something like
the Balanced Scorecard to track and manage your ongoing strategy.
If you are set on pitching a particular strategic planning model to
management, be prepared to give your boss or board of directors an
example of another successful company that has utilized that particular
model
42. A real-life VRIO framework example is Google.
There’s no doubt that Google is one of the most powerful companies in the world, and its success arguably
stems from a sustained competitive advantage in human capital management. If we were to break down
Google’s VRIO framework from the HR perspective, it might look something like this:
•Value: Use human capital management data to hire and retain innovative, productive employees. These
employees consistently create some of the most popular consumer products and services in the world.
•Rarity: No other companies are using data-based employee management so extensively.
•Imitability: Data-based human capital management is both costly and difficult to imitate, at least for the
near future. Companies have to build the software and invest in training their HR staff on the new
and strategy.
•Organization: Google is organized to capture value from this capability. The IT department has the skills to
collect and maintain the data, while HR and team leaders are trained on how to use the data to hire,
manage, and improve performance of employees.
44. PEST Mode
PEST is also an acronym—it stands for “political, economic,
sociocultural, and technological.” Each of these factors is used
to look at an industry or business environment, and
determine what could affect an organization’s health. The
PEST model is often used in conjunction with the external
factors of a SWOT analysis.
45. Benefits of PEST Analysis
Some benefits that we can gain from the findings of a PEST Analysis:
Provides an understanding of the wider business environment.
Encourages the development of strategic thinking.
Straightforward and only costs time to do.
May raise awareness of threats to a project.
Can help an organization to anticipate future difficulties and take
action to avoid or minimize their effect.
Can help an organization to identify and exploit opportunities.
47. Political Factors
These are all about how and to what degree a government intervenes
in the economy. This can include - government policy, political stability
or instability in overseas markets, foreign trade policy, tax policy, labor
law, environmental law, trade restrictions and so on.
It is clear from the list above that political factors often have an impact
on organizations and how they do business. Organizations need to be
able to respond to the current and anticipated future legislation, and
adjust their marketing policy accordingly.
48. Economic Factors
Economic factors have a significant impact on how an organization this
include - economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation,
disposable income of consumers , etc
Macro-economic factors deal with the management of demand in any
given economy. Governments use interest rate control, taxation policy and
government expenditure as their main mechanisms for managing macro-
economic factors.
Micro-economic factors are all about the way people spend their incomes.
49. Social Factors
Social factors are the areas that involve the shared belief and
attitudes of the population. These factors include - population
growth, age distribution, health consciousness, career
attitudes and so on. These factors are of particular interest as
they have a direct effect on how marketers understand
customers and what drives them.
50. Technological Factors
Know how fast the technological landscape changes and how this
impacts the way we market our products. Technological factors affect
marketing and the management thereof in three distinct ways:
New ways of producing goods and services
New ways of distributing goods and services
New ways of communicating with target markets
51.
52.
53. Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy is a strategic planning model that emerged
in a book by the same name in 2005. by W. Chan Kim and Renée
Mauborgne, professors at the European Institute of Business
Administration (INSEAD).
The idea behind Blue Ocean Strategy is for organizations to
develop in “uncontested market space” (e.g. a blue ocean)
instead of a market space that is either developed or saturated
(e.g. a red ocean). If your organization is able to create a blue
ocean, it can mean a massive value boost for your company, its
buyers, and its employees.
54. Red Ocean companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater
share of existing demand. As the market space gets crowded,
for profits and growth reduce. Products become commodities and
throat competition turns the ocean bloody red.
Blue Ocean companies, in contrast, access untapped market space
and create demand, and so they have the opportunity for highly
profitable growth. In Blue Oceans, competition is irrelevant. Yes,
imitators arise, but experience shows there is a wide window of
opportunity to stay ahead of imitators.
What characterizes Red Ocean
Dwelling vs. Blue Ocean Creating
Organizations?
56. What consistently separates winners from losers in creating Blue Oceans
is their approach to strategy. Creators of blue oceans do not use the
competition as their benchmark, but follow a different strategic logic
that we call value innovation. Instead of focusing on beating the
competition, Blue Ocean-creating organizations make them irrelevant, by
simultaneously creating a leap in value for buyers, and their
organization, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.
57. Blue Ocean creating businesses follow a different
strategic logic
We Challenge Industry Conditions & Paradigms
We Focus On Customers, Not Competitors
We Don’t Segment Customers, We Aggregate Them
Our Assets Capabilities Are Not Fixed, They Are Fluid
We Solve Problems Across The Entire Supply Chain
58. Here are a few examples of blue ocean strategic moves from a
variety of different industries and sectors
59. Porter's Five Forces
Porter’s Five Forces is an older strategy execution framework created by Michael
Porter in 1979 built around the forces that impact the profitability of an industry or a
market. The five forces it examines are:
The threat of entry. Could other companies enter the marketplace easily, or are there
numerous entry barriers they would have to overcome?
The threat of substitute products or services. Can buyers easily replace your product
with another?
The bargaining power of customers. Could individual buyers put pressure on your
organization to, say, lower costs?
The bargaining power of suppliers. Could large retailers put pressure on your
organization to drive down the cost?
The competitive rivalry among existing firms. Are your current competitors poised
for major growth? If one launches a new product or files a new patent—could that
impact your company?
The amount of pressure on each of these forces can help you determine how future
events will impact the future of your company
60. The threat of substitute products or services. Can buyers easily replace your
product with another?
The bargaining power of customers. Could individual buyers put pressure on
your organization to, say, lower costs?
The bargaining power of suppliers. Could large retailers put pressure on
your organization to drive down the cost?
The competitive rivalry among existing firms. Are your current competitors
poised for major growth? If one launches a new product or files a new
patent—could that impact your company?
The amount of pressure on each of these forces can help you determine
future events will impact the future