Strategic Planning
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intelligence reports, you may want to visit:
eCompetitors.com
A Practical Guide to Formulating and Implementing:
This web site presents a structured framework for quickly
and decisively developing business strategies and complementary implementation plans
in order to maximize shareholder value.
Your first task should be to look beyond the current organizational
structure in order to discover the true logical structure of your company.
If done correctly, you
will observe that there are:
X number of strategically relevant business units, each requiring a
Business
Unit Competitive Strategy;
Y
number of strategically relevant horizontal units, each requiring a
Horizontal
Unit Statement of Direction;
Z
number of strategically relevant business groups, each requiring a
Business Group
Strategy.
The group strategy for
the entire corporation is also called the
Corporate
Strategy.
Competitor Intelligence is contained within the Corporate Strategy,
the Group Strategy, the Business Unity Strategy, and the shared department's
horizontal unit (cost center) plan. For a specific view of competitive
intelligence, start with:
An
Overview of Competitor Intelligence.
For information on, and
access to, the
Global Industry
Dashboard
TM,
please visit
www.eCompetitors.com
which includes information
on over 10,000 Strategically Relevant Industries (SRIs)
including
FREE Competitive Intelligence reports.
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