Business Strategy
Introduction to Strategy
Failing to plan is planning to fail! Having a vision that can enthuse you and motivate you into action is essential, but you need to put into place a business strategy that will enable you to realise that vision. The success of your business can be dependent upon the effectiveness of the strategy it follows.
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1. What is Business Strategy?
A business strategy is a long-term plan that outlines how a business is going to achieve their vision. It involves developing a clear set of actions, plans and goals that will guide the decision-making processes towards the businesses intended growth and financial stability. It is the road map for a successful business to follow.
2. Why having a Business Strategy is important?
An effective Business Strategy will drive decision-making and is an important component of a successful business because it:
- Creates a blueprint to keep the whole organisation working and aligned in the same direction
- Directs efforts and behaviour
- Helps prevent individuals from losing sight of the company’s vision.
- Clarifies what the business does and contains key principles that outline how goals will be achieved
- Helps set priorities
- Perceives and utilises opportunities
- Drives decisions regarding how to allocate resources, both material and human
- Helps businesses to adapt to changes to improve overall performance
3. How to formulate a business strategy?
Formulating business strategy can be achieved by using available knowledge to document the intended direction of your business into actionable steps to reach your vision.
The key to formulating a strategy is to comprehensively understand your business, your products and services, and your market realities in unbiased terms.
What To Consider When Developing Your Own Strategy:
Creating an effective business strategy can be a powerful tool helping your business along the different road to success.
The key to formulating a strategy is to comprehensively understand your business, your products and services, and your market realities in unbiased terms.
What To Consider When Developing Your Own Strategy:
- Review your vision statement. This will aid in identifying your objective/goals for the business and your core values. Your core values will guide and influence the development of your strategy.
- Conduct an audit of the business. To devise a plan for the future, you need to know your businesses past performance as well as its current position. A commonly used tool called the SWOT analysis, ( strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) can help determine this.
- Develop a set of objectives. that will ensure delivery of your vision. Objectives should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-related).
- Communicate strategy. Share your strategy with employees and provide them with guidance and reasoning on the initiatives that will be carried out to get them onboard
- Assign a team. Make decisions who will head up each aspect of your strategy to delivery the best possible outcomes.
- Continually review all objectives and action plans.
Creating an effective business strategy can be a powerful tool helping your business along the different road to success.
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