OPEN YOUR MIND TO A CHALLENGING NEW APPROACH TO BUSINESS STRATEGYTraditional strategic thinking is challenged by PDQ STRATEGY™. This book contains new ideas on strategy making a strategy simple and easy to find and even easier to apply to real business problems. PDQ STRATEGY™ makes business strategy accessible to any manager or consultant working in any field of work, large business, SME's, public sector or Not for Profit.The ideas forming PDQ STRATEGY™ are based on practical business experience. All the examples used to illustrate the concepts are based on real business experiences.This book will show you how to:• Create a Strategimetric™ Profile.• Define your winning strategy.• Use scenarios to predict the future.• Measure a strategic position.• Map markets and competitors strategic positions.• Apply business strategy to solve real business problems.• Align all organisational projects with strategy.• Communicate strategy to stakeholders.• Obtain your free Computer Generated Profile.This book is not an academic review of old ideas on business strategy and its implementation or project management. It does not review existing businesses and try to distil common practices. It is an entirely new approach to driving an organisation forward using simple to use Strategimetric™ Profiling. It does not use history to predict the future – it is the future for strategy in the workplace.Strategimetric™ Profiling enables a strategic plan to be based on measured data for the first time ever. Not only can a plan be selected based on fact, its implementation and progress can now be measured and managed. Strategimetric™ Profiling adds science to the art of business strategy.Aligning a business's projects with its strategy is one of the key areas where many organisations are focusing their attention. PDQ STRATEGY™ shows how this can be developed throughout an organisation, in all its activities.Strategy as explained by PDQ STRATEGY™ is easy to understand and commonsense. Strategimetric™ Profiling can be used in every part of an organisation from the boardroom to the shopfloor. Strategimetric™ Profiling will enable all stakeholders in a business to become actively involved in creating and implementing business strategies, significantly improving its communication and their engagement. Strategimetric™ Profiling gives business winning strategies and prevents them drifting into the Black Hole or zone of mediocrity.Inside Strategimetric™ Profiling PART ONE – THEORYPDQ STRATEGY™ is explained in easy to follow language. The original ideas on which PDQ STRATEGY™ is founded are developed and explained. Some simple concepts are discussed such as:• How to find a strategy that fits your situation.• All businesses have a strategy, make your own choice.• What is a winning strategy?• Who owns strategy?• How to avoid the strategic Black HolePART TWO – APPLICATIONSThere is no point in crafting a strategy and leaving in the file. This part of the book illustrates how business projects can be planned and managed far better when aligned with a competent business strategy. Many real business situations are used to illuminate the following business projects:• Strategic Review .• New Start-Up Business.• Product Developments.• Capital Investment.• Management Control.• HR-Selection and Training.• HR – Culture.• Mergers and Acquisitions.• Business Turnaround .Part two concludes by touching on some of the applications currently under development and a short introduction into how Investment Analyses could benefit from comparing potential targets using Strategimetric™ Profiling.PART THREE – PROFESSIONALS SERVICESMany businesses and organisations use external consultants on a routine basis and this section provides guidance to executive coaches and consultants planning to use the tools found in PDQ STRATEGY™.• Strategy and Business Coaches .• Strategy and Management Consultants.• A PDQ Workshop.
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