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Strategic Business Planning - An Executive Overview

Dec 01, 2014

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In this 25 minute audio enabled presentation I outline each of the components that comprise a successful customer centric strategic business plan.
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Page 1: Strategic Business Planning - An Executive Overview

CONVERGENCE READINESS, INC.

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EXTRAORDINARY INSIGHT

CONVERGENCE READINESS

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STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANNING:AN EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

Jim Sevier, Founder & CEO

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● BUSINESS ATTROPHY● PRODUCT / SERVICE COMMODITIZATION● MARKET SHARE ERROSION● REVENUE STAGNATION● UNEXPECTED EXPENSE INCREASE● UNEXPECTED SPENDING● TALENT LOSS● UNABLE TO ATTRACT TALENTED LEADERS

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STRATEGYEQUALSCHANGE

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1. DEFINES AND SEGMENTS CUSTOMERS

2. DEFINES AND ASSIGNS VALUE PROPOSITIONS

3. DEFINES EXISTING AND FUTURE COMPETENCIES

4. CREATES A COMPANY MISSION

5. CREATES AND MEASURES OBJECTIVES

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● No two CUSTOMERS are ALIKE● However they can share various attributes

● Purchasing behavior● Customization● Total Solution

● Assures Resource Alignment● Minimizes expense

● Establishes a Baseline● Business Development strategy

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● They must be UNIQUE● Experiment with innovation● Difficult to imitate

● Produce significant VALUE for customer and business● Transfer to the customer some expertise, knowledge

or capability that allows them to better perform● Generate UNBREAKABLE customer bonding

● Develop a solution that includes the Extended Enterprise (Community)

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● Appraises Current and Future Competencies● Identify our legitimate claims of leadership and those

required to meet the challenges in the Value Proposition

● Unique knowledge base● Fullness and completeness of products and services● Superior differentiated attributes

● Achieves Customer Centric Thinking● Competencies are based on delivering an

extraordinary customer experience

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● Selection of a planning horizon● Transformation timeframe (1-5 years)

● Description of changes to the business

● Statement of the mission● Intention of what the business will become● Compelling, dynamic and well-reasoned

• Products• Services• Customer base

• Complementor• Geographic• Competencies

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● Product Change● Our product and services portfolio will consist of a

properly packaged set of integrated solutions to our primary customers. The resulting value proposition that will emerge will be directed to the properly segmented and selected customers, which will constitute the essence of our leadership in Enterprise communications.

● Customer Change● A focused segmentation with the differentiated strategies

to satisfy, in the most effective way, the distinct needs for products and services of each of our customer tiers.

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● At the end of the day, something HAS to be accomplished● Re-alignment of the Organization

● Supporting changes in competencies and customers● Development of Business Processes

● Supporting changes in back office automation and service delivery

● Development of Metrics● Performance indicators● Time-driven events

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● Managing STRATEGY is managing CHANGE● Customer Centricity will ensure uniqueness and

deliver unbreakable customer bonds● Individual Value Propositions will deliver an

extraordinary customer experience and ensure effective use of resources

● Competencies will support continuing innovation and adaptation to changing market conditions

● The Mission will be the foundation of culture● Objectives will manage and reward

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● I would like to acknowledge the work of Arnoldo C. Hax, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose book “The Delta Model” is the inspiration for this presentation.

● This presentation is not intended to represent the views of the author, Sloan School of Management or MIT but to merely act as a catalyst for thought for the communications technology reseller industry.