Strategy and Execution
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Strat/Assess e-book:
"From Vision to decision"
VIA THE COMPREHENSIVE DEMO
Provides insight in business sensivities like:
- Optimism/realism risk
- Financial risk
- Non financial risks on timing, market criteria and core competences
- Business development risk per business/project stage
- Strategic and issue risks
The Strat/Assess e-book puts strategy models(most strategy books just give the stand alone models) in the right perspective for immediate practical use in the most appropriate business plan chapter.
The Strat/Assess e-book in html (electronic textbook- equivalent to some 500 pages Strategic Business development text book-) on Strategic Business Development is:
- part of the license provided as a web application
- available with the DEMO version to describe its use
- off-line available in the optional Premium Pack
Example of a limited part of the chapter on market mapping(complete section can be seen via DEMO).
This enables and supports the completion of the E.F.Q.M/ INK model and the SIX SIGMA approach:
Source: EFQM
The Strat/Assess e-book/on-line Business plan Support Guide provides as an electronical textbook comprehensive information for developing the content of the business plan:
Feel free to make your own dashboard and business plan or monitor an existing business plan via the DEMO.
The Strat/Assess e-Book/ on-line Business plan Support Guide provides as an electronical textbook comprehensive information for developing the content of the business plan:
Table of content Strat/Assess e-Book/Business plan Support Guide
1. Introduction/Using this guide
Description of the way of working with Strat/Assess:
1. Quick and dirty approach(top down): just completing the basic input
2. The in-depth business plan approach(bottom-up)
2. Business Case/Project cockpit: Strat/Assess guidelines
Description of input/output buttons.
3. The Strat/Assess model
Description of Strat/Assess.
4. Reporting, presentation, decision making
Description of Strat/Assess reporting and suggestions on how to make decisions.
5. Chapters of the business plan
(Separately complete templates in Word/pdf format available as part of the Business Plan Pack and the Premium Pack)
Business plan Chapters and paragraphs structure of the corresponding business plan format.
6. Strat/Assess: Key values impact and their interrelations
Description of Strat/Assess input inter linkages and the effects on results.
7. Strat/Assess input/output: Summary
Description of the 4 input elements to be completed leading to the Strat/Assess output
8. Strat/Assess input: Key stakeholder's basic data
Description of input screen with project parameters
9. Strat/Assess input: Setting the scene for developing new business strategy/ Scouting stage
Description of basic starting points prior to making a business plan, the scouting and filtering procedures for selecting the business cases/projects to be elaborated. Defines the innovation climate and includes a self assessment for mapping innovation competences.
SELF ASSESSMENT: MAPPING INNOVATION COMPETENCES
10. Fieldwork Scorebook
(Separately in Word/pdf format available as part of the Premium Pack)
The Fieldwork Scorebook's purpose is the use as a notebook for off-line completion of Strat/Assess input and for discussion purposes. When printed it is very useful for team meetings on the essentials of input.
(Separately available as part of the Premium Pack)
Business Plan content
11. Business plan Management Summary(Chapter I Business Plan)
Description of content management summary
12. Company/Business profile (Chapter II Business Plan)
Description of company infra structural settings
What strategy:
13. Strat/Assess input: Strategy development (Chapter III Business Plan)
Guide on how to develop a strategy.
SELF ASSESSMENT: STRATEGY
14. Strat/Assess input: Strategic market map/ External Orientation (Chapter IV Business Plan)
Guide on how to make the external orientation.
SELF ASSESSMENT: STRATEGIC MARKET MAP
15. Strat/Assess input: Strategic competences map / Internal Orientation (Chapter V Business Plan)
To describe the competences required.
SELF ASSESSMENT: STRATEGIC COMPETENCES MAP
16.Strat/Assess input: Financial plans(Chapter VI Business plan)
Making the financial section, calculating investments, contribution margins and results.
17. Strat/Assess input: Integral Business Development by business/project stage(Chapter VII Business plan)
This section has the characteristics of a self assessment tool.
It will help identify the extent to which the strategic elements of a business plan are in place and its progress by stage
SELF ASSESSMENT: PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC ELEMENTS OF A BUSINESS PLAN
18. Strat/Assess input: Scoring Stage 1 Concept/basic outlines of a business plan
Guide and questionnaire on scoring for stage 1 projects.
19. Strat/Assess input: Scoring Stage 2 Initial business plan/Try-out
Guide and questionnaire on scoring for stage 2 projects.
20. Strat/Assess input: Scoring Stage 3/4
Stage 3. Advanced business plan: Product/service development
Stage 4. Complete business plan: Market introduction/launch
Guide and questionnaire on scoring for stage 3 and 4 projects.
How strategy:
21. Strat/Assess input: How strategy/Program management-competence development programmes- (Chapter VIII Business plan)
Description on how to develop practical and actionable plans ( including its specific required resources in manpower and money) for the key functions of the business case/project.
22. Strat/Assess input: How strategy: Operational road map(Chapter IX. Business Plan)
(Separately complete template in Excel format available as part of the Business Plan Pack and the Premium Pack)
For the daily operations and progress monitoring an action calendar that enables the execution of the plan and recognizes at early stage possible progress backlogs.
23. Strat/Assess input: Progress monitoring/Strategic discussion and risk analysis(Chapter X Business plan)
Identifies roadblocks, issues, hindering factors that have to be discussed and by preference solved with management and/or other decision makers in a strategic discussion.
SELF ASSESSMENT: IDENTIFYING STRATEGIC ISSUES AND BUSINESS RISK
24. Strat/Assess dashboard results: Summary explanation(Part of Management Summary Business Plan)
Description on how to read and interpret the Strat/Assess dashboard results.
25. Strat/Assess dashboard results: Summary business case and project Information(Part of Management Summary Business Plan)
Description of business case/project the Strat/Assess dashboard results.
26. Strat/Assess dashboard results: Portfolio and critical values in the portfolio (Part of Portfolio Summary Business Plans)
Description of portfolio business case/project the Strat/Assess dashboard results.
27. Strat/Assess glossary: Summary hyperlinks by chapter
Survey of used Internet references and sources of information by chapter.
Additional information
28. Useful Internet links/sites/sources of Strat/Assess information
Survey of used Internet references by chapter.
29. Glossary of business and financial terms
Survey of business plan related terms
30. Summary of templates
Survey of supporting templates by chapter
31. Troubleshooting
32. On Stratecution
33. Installation/license agreement
This is included in the DEMO.
The Demo can be accessed as follows:
