S4A1112+ – External Analysis: Template for Determining Critical Success Factors and Uncovering Differentiation Factors

File includes 3 templates. This is not your regular “list your Critical Success Factors” postulation.  Through thinking about 4 steps or questions, you will arrive to your Critical Success Factors, and you will also arrive to Differentiation Factors in a way that it is unlikely that you’ve done before. The first form covers those four sets of topics, arriving at your Critical Success Factors, but forcing you first to think about Differentiation Factors. The second form has a questionnaire to your employees to gather their ideas about product improvements (in two main types) and possibly uncovering other sources of differentiation.  This Is the first of several ties the Strategy4Action framework encourages you to grasp the crowd knowledge off all your employees. It also encourages your employees to share their main ideas (one or two) about other things in the organization.  Will there be a common theme? The 3rd has a SWOT form where you’re encouraged to summarize the findings of the process above; the Strategy4Action framework peruses 23+ areas, including Critical Success Factors and Differentiation, to find new opportunities (as well as threats, strengths, and weaknesses).

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