Business Strategy

Business Success Starts With a Sound Strategic Plan

“By 2020, it’s estimated that 1.7MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth.”
Jun 15, 2018 – socialmedianews.com

“There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day at our current pace, but that pace is only accelerating with the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.”
5/21/2018 – Forbes

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Attract Customers

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Compete Successfully

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Strengthen Performance

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Achieve Goals

Strategy is a bundle of tactics that has a laser-sharp mission. All the pieces work in concert to achieve a defined goal. A lot of thinking and many diverse elements go into a good strategy. Good strategy succeeds because of its ability to create opportunity. The opportunity is delivered by exceptional executional capabilities.

Sun Tzu Tenets

Sun Tzu formalized many of these tenets in the Art of War and they apply well to modern business:

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Art of Strategy

Strategy Before Tactics – Always

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Art of Deception

Occupy new territory and be the first to secure the marketplace

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Art of Judgement

Good plans also mean knowing what NOT to do.

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Art of Building

Build a strong Market Position and anticipate how to defend it.

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Art of the Team

Organize the best Team

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Art of Accessment

Assess and attack the weaknesses of the competition.

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Art of Planning

Make a plan and stick to it.
Forecast results.

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Art of Approach

Take a 360 Degree approach to everything you do

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Art of Priorities

Get your priorities straight. Be sure everyone is on the same page.

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Art of Timing

Timing Is Everything