Strategy & Planning

Reconciling the needs of your markets to your resources, in a changing world, to determine the direction and scope needed to achieve success of your organisation and meet the needs of your stakeholders.

Strategy and Planning

Strategic Positioning

Understanding your business environment

Analysing the macro-environment
Industry or sector analysis
Cycles of competition
Defining strategic groups
Assessing organisational capability
Market segmentation

Expectations and purpose

Setting Strategic objectives
Defining stakeholder requirements
Shareholder value

Establishing strategic capability

Defining what customers value
Strategic capability
Determining critical success factors
Resources for competitive advantage

Making Strategic Choices

Setting strategic objectives

The value of mission statements, core values and objectives
Aligning business objectives with Corporate strategy
Critical success factors
Prioritising actions

Identify bases for competitive advantage

Priced based strategies
Differentiation strategies
Focus strategies
Sustaining competitive advantage

Scenario modelling

Principles of robust modelling
Dealing with assumptions
Gaming theory
risk analysis

Strategy Into Action

Managing Change

Setting objectives
GAP analysis

Enabling & Organising

Prioritising objectives
Planning and budgeting

Developing Pricing Strategies

Market or formula driven options
Alignment to product life cycle