3-Part Power of Planning: Entrepreneurial Track at the National Association of Women MBAs 2014 Conference.
Speaker: Joanne Flynn, Phoenix Strategic Performance
www.phoenixstrategicperformance.com
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2014 National Association of Women MBAs Presentation
1. A Goal Without a Plan Is Just a Wish
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
SURVIVE OR THRIVE
Going Beyond the Numbers
3-Part Power of Planning
2. 3 Critical Success Factors
1. The Plan - A rigorous and constantly
examined growth strategy
2. The People - A sophisticated, smart and
strategically relevant human capital
strategy
3. The Market - A robust, analytical, on
time and on demand-inbound marketing
strategy for today!
3. Survive or Thrive
• MISSING ANY OF ONE OF THESE THREE AREAS
CAN CAUSE YOUR STRATEGY TO GO FROM
THRIVE TO SURVIVE:
– Part 1 - GROWTH STRATEGY
• LOSING FOCUS OF YOUR ‘NORTH STAR”
– Part 2 - HUMAN CAPITAL POTENTIAL AND
ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT
• WAITING TOO LONG AND INVESTING TOO LITTLE
– Part 3 - MARKETING & ANALYTICS
• UNDERVALUING THE IMPACT AND DOING TOO LITTLE
6. Growth Strategy
• Key Principles
–Begin with your growth gap
analysis
–The market knows the answer, not
the smart people in the room
–Swim in your lane
10. Workshop Questions
1. What are potential distractions?
Rank your top 3
2. Who could they be coming
from?
Rank your top 3
11. Growth Strategy
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should
FOCUS
– Leverage, expand & redefine the core over
time
– Define the core boundaries. Optimize full
core potential
– Strengthen core differentiation – focus on
the customer
– Continually watch your competition and
block their entry
12. Growth Strategy
EXPAND
–Project and extend strengths
–Expand into related adjacencies
–Push out core boundaries
–Pursue repeatable growth formula
13. Growth Strategy
REDEFINE
–Continually strengthen the operating
platform from which you will launch
change
–Target future profit pools
–Build defensible new forms of
competitive differentiation
–Heavily invest in the necessary
capabilities and capacity to deploy on
demand
14. Workshop Question
What are all the differentiation
issues you must continually
consider?
Rank your top 3 in order
16. Value Proposition
The best strategy can fail at implementation
without a human capital strategy supporting it
Paradigms Blocking People from Achieving Strategic Initiatives
•People are smart and people are busy
•All our people are always working at their
highest potential
•People are our most important asset
17. The Current Global Business
Trends 2014
• 27% of CEO’s say they lose sleep over human capital
– Fortune
• According to PE surveys – 85% of their time is spent on people issues. There is
a crisis in leadership – creating organizational permafrost
– Phoenix Strategic Performance
• 60% of employees are disengaged
– Towers Watson – Global Employment Study 2014
• 50% of Small Businesses Fail within the first 5 years
– Geri Stengel – Ventureneer
• On the Values – Productivity Matrix - Too much time , over 60%, is spent
tolerating either low or disengaged performers
– Jana Matthews – Kaufman Institute 17
18. Organizational Alignment
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you
there. Lewis Carroll
• Key Principles
–Vigorously and continually align people, roles,
competencies, skills, processes and technology
to support the strategy
–How people behave is as important as what
they do
19. Value Proposition
– Assess people on current and trending
competency criteria
– Forecast current and future people potential
and capacity to pace with strategic business
objectives
– Unlock people’s performance potential
– Mitigate people risk
– Close the performance accountability loop
20. Managing
Human Capital Potential
• 3-Filter Funnel Assessment
Diagnostic
• Organizational Agility Assessment
Reporting, Analytics & Gap Analysis
• Workforce Planning, Development
& Governance
Implementation
33. Example – Ratings Heat Map
6
4b
3
2b
• Knowledgeable
• Accountable &
Engaged
• Confident
• Action Required
• Knowledgeable
• Accountable & Engaged
• Confident
• Knowledgeable
• Accountable & Engaged
• Not Confident
• Limited Knowledge
• Accountable & Engaged
• Increasing Confidence
• Limited Knowledge
• Unaccountable & Disengaged
• Not Confident
5
• ‘Go To’ Person
• Utility Player
• Under Achiever
• Complacent
• Developer
• Overwhelmed
4a
• Knowledgeable
• Unaccountable & Disengaged
• Confident
1
• Limited to No Knowledge
• Engaged but Unaccountable
• Not Confident
• New
2a
• Limited Knowledge
• Unaccountable & Disengaged
• Overly Confident
• Over Achiever
34. Part 3 - Marketing & Analytics
You can’t manage what you can’t measure
35. Today’s Marketing Reality
A proactive, measurable function with data &
analytics to plan, manage & measure success
•Can a small company afford not to have a
marketing strategy?
• How are you going to create a presence in a
crowded marketplace?
•How do you plan to get found & drive
customers to your website with all the cyber
noise out there?
37. Develop Attainable
Marketing Strategy
• Develop Attainable & Actionable Goals
• Content Strategy
• E-books
• Whitepapers
• Webinars
• Blogging
• Social Media Strategy
• Search Engine Optimization
• Email Marketing/Automation
• Attend Local & National Events
• Build Personal & Business
Online Presence
38. Marketing and Analytics
Arizona Technology Council
Campaign:
•Speak at local event
•4 event invitation emails
•2 follow-up emails
•Case study offer
•Blog for promotion
•Blog for those who couldn’t
attend
•Social media
40. Analyze All Traffic Sources
• Where is your website traffic coming from?
• Where are your leads coming from?
• What sources are converting the most leads?
• What traffic drives the most customers?
43. Your Action Items
• Develop Attainable Goals
• Content Development
• Calendar
• Topics
• Social Media Implementation
• Personal Accounts
• Business Accounts
• Search Engine Optimization
• Define Target 25 Keywords
• Email Marketing/Automation
• Identify Buyer Personas
• Find Local & National Associations
44. 3 Critical Success Factors
1. The Plan - A rigorous and constantly
examined growth strategy
2. The People - A sophisticated, smart and
strategically relevant human capital
strategy
3. The Market - A robust, analytical, on
time and on-demand inbound marketing
strategy for today!
46. Questions?
Joanne Flynn
Phoenix Strategic Performance
www.phoenixstrategicperformance.com
jflynn@phoenixstrategicperformance.com
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