This toolset allows immediate application of “Strategy4Action”, “Putting Together YOUR STRATEGY”, and the “CHOOSING Strategically” frameworks. Each template includes instructions and covers a wide range of Strategic tools from academia and management consulting for each step of the frameworks. The editable files provide flexibility to add topics or questions, enabling adaptation to your specific needs or format.
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S4A1201 – Internal Analysis: Template for Analyzing Current Products and Segments
File includes 2 templates. This analysis builds on the analysis done for “Variables of Segmentation” and Differentiation; also gets better if you did the Market Survey. The main form invites you map which of your products cover the existing segments and who else is on those segments; then it forces you to think about your …
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S4A1113+ – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing and Determining the Value Proposition of your Product or Service
File includes 2 templates. Before going through this step, it is very important that you have gone through the Willingness To Pay step and, ideally, you will have gone through the Critical Success Factors’ too. The first form has two parts: first, it encourages you to describe the value proposition of your product and service …
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 …
S4A1111+ – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing your Customers’ Willingness To Pay and Customer Needs
File includes 4 templates. It’s very important to understand Customers’ Willingness To Pay. It impacts your Critical Success Factors, your Value Proposition, and ultimately your Competitive Advantage and your Strategy. The first form encourages you to compare (by product or product-line) your product’s pricing and that of your main competitors’ and to think about what …
S4A1110 – External Analysis: Template for Summarizing Industry Attractiveness based off the Five Forces Model and the Individual analysis done on each force
File includes 2 forms. We have explored each of the Five Forces through its own templates. Now we summarize that info and evaluate Industry attractiveness. The first form has two parts: the first encourages you to succinctly comment on each of the Five Forces and place each forces’ evaluation (from its own template); this is …
S4A1109 – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing Industry Rivalry
File includes 4 forms. We explore the topic of Industry Rivalry within the Five Forces Model through different perspectives. The first form recaps some information about your top competitors, that is, competitors is your Competitor’s group but also to think, possibly for the first time, competitors in the overall industry (think about the car industry …
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S4A1108 – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing Buyers and potential buyers’ Pipeline
File includes 4 templates. We explore the topic of Buyers within the Five Forces Model both through the perspective of your customers and your pipeline. The first form encourages designing a brief sketch of the Distribution Channel so that you don’t forget any part of it, and has a suggested template to determine the top …
S4A1107 – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing Barriers to Entry / Potential Entrants in an industry
The form encourages you to think about what is really the effort potential entrants have to make to get into your industry and it provides you with several questions that might help you identify potential entrants and that perhaps you have not thought of before. The Strategy4Action framework peruses 23+ areas, including barriers to entry, …
S4A1106 – External Analysis: Template for Analyzing Suppliers and Inputs (Raw Materials)
File includes 5 templates. We explore the topic of Suppliers within the Five Forces Model both through the perspective of Suppliers and that of Inputs. The first form encourages designing a brief sketch of the Supply Chain and has a suggested template to determine the top suppliers and list the most relevant information about them. …
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