Q1 - With the backdrop of the economic crisis, how are companies creating strategies?

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• Pros and Cons

1. Analysis to understand the market
   1. Helps you understand your market
   2. Helps you understand your customer
2. Clear direction for staff
   1. Staff engagement \ understanding
3. Helps you to understand your strengths and weaknesses
4. Paradox - porter 2008
   1. over-reaction

1. Duration
   1. Long term
2. Type?

   Attachments:

   • Emerging \ Prescriptive
   1. Emergent
   2. Prescriptive
3. Position

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   • Exploring Strategy model
   1. Capability
   2. Purpose
   3. Culture
   4. Environment
4. Choices
   1. Business
   2. Corporate
   3. Variety
   4. International
   5. Alliance \ Acquisition
5. Actions
   1. Practice
   2. Process
   3. Organisation
   4. Changing
   5. Resourcing

1. Macro
   1. PESTEL
2. Industry
   1. Porters 5 forces
      1. Threat of new entrants
      2. Buyer power
      3. Supplier Power
      4. Threat of substitute goods
      5. (complementary goods)
         1. Value Net

            Attachments:

            • Value Net
      6. Competitive Rivalry
      7. Choose the right industry
   2. Industry life cycle
      1. Development
      2. Growth
      3. Shakeout
      4. Maturity
      5. Decline
   3. Competitive Cycles
3. Competitor \ Market
   1. Bowmans Strategy clock
      1. Critical Success Factors
         1. Strategy Canvas
            1. Blue Ocean Strategy
   2. Strategic Groups
   3. Market Segmentation