My final presentation for Designing and Executing Corporate Strategies

1. Summary of Strategy Skills

2. The Importance of Strategy
A strategy is what will give you an advantage and help sustain that
advantage or what unique position will the company achieve.
Six questions to help form strategy:
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Why do we exist?
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Where are we going?
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How will we conduct ourselves?
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What will we do?
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How will we measure our success?
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What improvements or changes must we make?

3. Is your ocean blue?

4. Tools to develop strategies
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Storyboarding
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Strategy Deck
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Mind Map
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SWOT Analysis

5. Story Boarding
Benefits of using a story board
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Creates a blue print of your idea
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Moves idea along by using the format of a story
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Makes areas that require change easier to find

6. Strategy Deck
Benefits of a strategy deck
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Clearly outlines strategic objectives without the
rhetoric
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Creates distinct and measurable goals

7. Mind Mapping
Benefits of a mind map
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Creates a blueprint of current progress and needed
objectives
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Branching allows you to add different goals and
objectives later
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Helps link disconnected information into a
symmetrical view of an organization

8. SWOT Analysis
Benefits of a SWOT Analysis
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Lists key information about a company
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Helps to determine whether or not a company is a
good or bad risk
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Offers objective possibilities for future growth and
potential hazards to the company

9. The Art of War
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A guide to building a successful strategy to ensure
success of goals and visions
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Helps companies prioritize goals and set
manageable plans of action
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Can be used in a number of fields outside of the
military like business

10. Summary
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An organization is not guaranteed success just
because it exists.
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It needs a solid strategy in order to succeed
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Tools like mind mapping, strategy decks, story
boarding and SWOT analyses will help
organizations build successful strategies