Strategic Transformation

1. Covid-19:
Are you ready
for the change?
Mohammed Abdul Awal
Covid-19:
Are you ready
for the change?

2. Covid-19:
Are you ready
for the change?
Mohammed Abdul Awal, MBA, CSCM

3. Covid-19
• Corona pandemic yet another - perhaps most severe -
disruption in global supply chains. This is for the first
time in history that manufacturing and trade being
hampered for people not being able to go out to work.
The impact of this pandemic literally handicapped
economies even some of the giants of the world. Some
analysts predict that this would cause a recession of the
magnitude of great recession 1930s, if not greater.
• Government and Business leaders around the world are
puzzled. Closed down factories and outlets, seeking for
bail-out funds, orders cancellations, lay-offs are
happening all around us. Even some companies
including JC Penny applied for bankruptcy.
• Pay-cuts seem to be a way to survive for the businesses,
perhaps in the short-term, however, some argue that
this will only cause the economic recovery much harder
has consumer spending will drop.
• This pandemic seems to change our world we knew.
The world order and politics is likely to change. Most of
the businesses - large or small - will have to re-start
from scratch. In order to prepare for a new world, re-
designing the supply chains, even redesigning the value
propositions will be required - with a renewed
entrepreneurial spirit!
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4. How do you re-start your business?
• “Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crisis ignite our
greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on
things outside the norm.” – Sam Cawthorn
Strategic Review:
- Analyze the situation.
- Perform a SWOT analysis to re-check
company’s resources and capabilities
- Use PESTEL to analyze external environment.
- Revisit your competitive situation.
- Review your value chain system.
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5. Strategic Review
• It is best to get some external facilitator to help
you facilitate the review session – so that
discussions can be more focused.
• This may take several days, but the stake is high
and the situation deserves the efforts attention.
• It is not the time for the owner to decide
unilaterally. Although some owners do not like to
share information, control and decision making,
but this is a question of survival and you may like
to use best of your resources to support the
thought process. Moreover, you would need them
to take the responsibility to transform the
business. So, engage them. If you are not
comfortable to drive this discussion, get support
from an external consultant to prepare the team
and facilitate the review.
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6. Teamwork is important!
• Businesses with centralized decision making,
controlled by top management will less likely to
devise and execute a re-start strategy than
professionally managed companies. Professional
management teams with self-driven leaders are
more likely to be able to bring together the ideas
and required teamwork to drive the change
through out the organization.
• Get a comfortable atmosphere, for the strategic
discussions, that ignite ideas and creativity. Help
the team to see the big picture and how the stakes
are connected. The whole team has to work as a
single unit with the entrepreneurial spirit in this do
or die situation.
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7. Input to Strategic Review Sessions
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8. How do we get there?
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9. Strategic Discussion
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10. PESTEL
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11. Drive Strategic Initiatives & Change
Management
• Change is painful. Keep patience if you are doing this for
the first time and your team is new to do this kind of
strategic discussions. Mix it with breaks and fun activities
and return back to discussions.
• With an effective discussions, as team, make a list of
strategic initiatives. Review them again in couple of days,
and finalize your key strategies.
• The next step would be to breakdown the strategies into
key projects and initiatives to execute with a time plan.
Select champions among the team to lead each of the
strategic initiative.
• Decide on how you are going to cascade these down to
organization-wide, how the feedback shall be taken to
adapt as you go along, and how the progress would be
monitored. © abdul.awal@advantedge-solutions.net

12. About AdvantEdge
Our Solutions:
 Team-building facilitations, off-site workshops
 Corporate Strategy Consulting
 Supply Chain Network Design and Optimization
 Value Stream Mapping and Optimization
 Compliance and Sustainability audit
 Implementation of Balanced Score Card and Performance Management
 Operations Re-structuring
We work with a diverse group of affiliated resources and networks. Our team’s global experience
together with deep understanding of the local perspectives, we solve complex business problems in
creative and innovative ways.
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13. Thank You