Entrepreneur Playbooks
for Strategy
Good strategy drives growth and business value
Why is strategy important for growth?
Strategy gives us the edge, to win and achieve our goals.
Good strategy:- Finds new perspectives, and new opportunity.
- Determines what game to play and how to win.
- Signposts the way to positions of competitive strength.
- Creates strength through coherence, of goals, plans, actions and resources.
- Aligns teams, enables better decisions.
- Drives sharp execution.
Good strategy:
- Grows business profits and long-term business value.
- Makes life easier!
The evidence it works
- $38 billion is spent each year on strategy consulting.
- The best companies do it to build strength and value.
- Public markets, private equity and venture capital investors demand strong and compelling strategies because they know it drives superior returns.
The challenge and opportunity
- Strategy is difficult and often does not get done, is not good enough, or is not implemented effectively; especially in smaller companies with less access to expert help and resources.
- Many companies could drive better performance with better strategies and implementation.
With Entrepreneur Playbooks
Organise strategic thinking
See clearly. Communicate clearly.
Ask the right questions
New insights. Better decisions. Sharper strategies.
Out think the competition
Find your inside track and winning moves.
Why is strategy difficult?
1. Head space and perspective
- It’s difficult to switch from day to day running a business, working in the business, to the strategic thinking and perspective of working on the business, especially without external help.
2. Strategy is hard work – it requires:
- Rigorous and analytical thinking and decision making, including difficult choices and trade-offs.
- Dealing with uncertainty, envisioning futures, conceiving new ideas.
- Follow-through implementation.
- Ongoing maintenance as the picture changes.
3. Knowing how
- It’s not always clear what a strategy should look like, and what approach should be used to create one.
4. Time
- It’s difficult to make time for the important, but not urgent, strategy development work.
The Entrepreneur Playbooks Growth solution
- Entrepreneur Playbooks helps business leaders drive growth and value faster with better strategies and implementation.
How?
- Rigorous programmes, assessing your business, exploring options, developing more potent competitive strategies and key actions to implement.
With expertise
Entrepreneur Playbooks coaches provide:- Perspective and expertise to help with strategy development.
- Support to follow through with implementation over time.
- A critical thinking partner, and accountability to maintain momentum.
With tools
The Entrepreneur Playbooks platform provides:- Strategy development tools and frameworks to learn and apply best practice.
With programmes
- Entrepreneur Playbooks programmes guide you through the process, helping to make time and maintain pace to get the work done.
With Entrepreneur Playbooks
Drive actions
Strategies into actions, OKRs, KPIs.
Achieve more
Aligned, focussed, consistent strategic actions.
Build competitive advantage
For strength, resilience, profit.
You can...
Drive growth and value
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