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Introduction
Raj is a practicing cost accountant, consultant and
trainer and helps his clients in-
-Strategy planning and implementation,
balanced score cards, business analytics
-Interim Management
-Lean management, kaizen etc
-Human resource management- OD,
compensation, competency, performance
management
-Costing systems, cost management, cost audit,
compliances, performance management
Raj has done work in 16 countries other than India,
including US, UK, Germany, Singapore
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Introduction
Raj is a practicing cost accountant, consultant and
trainer and helps his clients in-
-Strategy planning and implementation,
balanced score cards, business analytics
-Interim Management
-Lean management, kaizen etc
-Human resource management- OD,
compensation, competency, performance
management
-Costing systems, cost management, cost audit,
compliances, performance management
Raj has done work in 16 countries other than India,
including US, UK, Germany, Singapore
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What is Strategy
Many experts have defined strategy in many
ways-
* Plan of action to achieve goals
* Plan of action with some patterns
* Path to reach milestones
* Pattern or common thread related to
organisation's activity
* Optimum allocation or resources
*....
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Why Strategy?
Strategy involves creating a fit among different
activities of a business
Strategy helps achieving better return on
investment than industry average consistently
“A company can outperform its rivals only if it
can establish a difference it can preserve” -
Michael Porter
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Values
What the organisations live by
Created by leaders' behaviour, Demonstrated
by employees' behaviour
Will decide how a company will do business,
what businesses it may or may not do; whether
it will focus long term or short term
May limit an organisation's growth
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Vision
How do we see our future? (Where do you see
yourself in 5 years?)
Word picture of what the organisation will be in
the next few years
Vision needs to be SMARTS
What is your company's vision?
What is your vision?
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Core Competency
A harmonised combination of multiple
resources and and skills that distinguish a firm
in the marketplace
Core competencies must -
– Provide potential access to several markets
– Should make significant contributions to
perceived customer benefits of the end product
– Should be difficult to copy
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Levels of Strategy
Corporate level - business portfolio
management, allocation of corporate
resources, broad policies
Business unit level (SPU level) – Business
growth, product / service portfolio, competitive
advantage
Functional level – how different functions will
support business strategy
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PESTEL
P-political factor e.g. changes in international
trade, taxation policy
E-economic factor e.g. interest rates,
exchange rates, national income, inflation,
unemployment, Stock Market
S-social factor e.g. ageing population,
attitudes to work, income distribution
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Degree of Rivalry
Exit barriers
Industry concentration
Fixed costs
Industry growth
Intermittent overcapacity
Switching costs
Brand identity
Diversity of rivals
Corporate stakes
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New Entrants and Entry Barriers
Absolute cost advantages
Access to inputs
Government policy
Economies of scale
Capital requirements
Brand identity
Switching costs
Access to distribution
Proprietary products
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Role of Complementors
Number of complements
Relative value added
Difficulty of engaging complements
Buyer perception of complements
Complement exclusivity
Tend to increase profits by increasing demand
for an industry’s products
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Game Theory
Anticipate competitors' response to your
strategic actions, and its impact on overall
industry and your business
Anticipate competitors' actions and possible
impact on your business
Tackle uncertainty situations
Appropriate and needed in today's uncertain
world as we know solutions for future which is
vaguely predictable
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Ohme framework
Integrate 3Cs to create competitive advantage
Corporation – Selective and sequencing, trade
off of make buy
Competition – people, money, and things
(assets)- allocation; cost structure
Customers – segmentation by objectives,
market coverage trade off, further
segmentation
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Strategy Execution
Isn't it obviously easy after the hard work in
creating the plan
Over 90% of well crafted plans fail in execution
Need proper organisation and focus
Need alignment of business objectives to
strategy, of different departments to each other
and of different employees to each other
Balanced scorecard as a tool
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Role of CMAs
Understand business
Unbiased assessment of business, not to
please the management
Continuous exercise
Forecasting, reassessing assumptions
Evaluating alternatives
Sensitivity analysis
Shareholders' perspective, customer
perspective
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Why managers don't think strategy
Short term vs long term thinking
Fear of failure
Overconfidence
Prior bad experience
Self-interest
Fear of the unknown
Honest difference of opinion
Suspicion