Plan To Win

Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

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Embrace strategies for improving your business and reaching yourorganization's goals "I wholeheartedly agree with Patrick Stroh: Good leadersunderstand strategy and good strategists need to be good leaders.Make this book a strategic tool for improving your businessstrategy." — Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New YorkTimes bestsellerSwim With The Sharks Without Being EatenAlive In today's fast-moving and competitive business environment,strong leadership, insightful strategy, and effective innovationare critical links to staying ahead of your competition. Gettingyour business house in order can often be complicated, but does itreally have to be? How do you take MBA 101 lessons, great models,and exceptional concepts and put them into play in the realworld? Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win!strives to answers these questions in an educational andentertaining format. Working as a Fortune 20 practitioner withC-level executives, author Patrick Stroh has a keen understandingof the role played by current day strategists. With 5 chapters following the format of "All I Ever Needed toLearn About Business Strategy I Learned..." At the Movies, On theFarm, On Shark Tank, On Hell's Kitchen, and From the Bible, readerswill gain valuable strategic insight regardless of industry,business maturity, or current business turbulence and how to applythese insights based on the factors impacting their own business.Each chapter ends with a One Chapter Conclusion, Two Gold Nuggetsthe reader is to write down and Three Additional Resources/Toolsfor more information, offering a practical roadmap to simplifyingyour success.

This book provides a practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business processes. Focusing on key elements of a robust business plan, it defines the core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organization, and offers checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. Containing chapters on customer development, the production introduction process, and supply chain, project, and finance management, the core processes are described and supported by diagrams and checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. The author has worked with leading aerospace, automotive, and industrial component manufacturers and the book exhibits his extensive experience in business planning across various industry sectors including Dunlop, GKN Technology and Lucas Aerospace.

This book provides the essentials to write a successful business plan. The represented methods and best practices have been approved over many years in practice with many management consulting engagements. The book is beautifully structured, it has a pragmatic emphasis and an autodidactic approach. The reader gets acquainted with the skills and competencies as well as tools, required for the planning and development of the business plan project.

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Plan To Win: LEADER'S GUIDE TO CREATING BREAKTHROUGH BUSINESS STRATEGY. Someone very wise once said, "the world is not short on strategy, it's short on execution." And the evidence bears this out, as most business plans, whether for a start-up or a mature business, end up stacked on office bookshelves or buried in file drawers. Using his vast experience of guiding companies of all sizes throughout the world, Peter von Braun knows that the key to developing a truly winning business strategy is to follows a disciplined and scientific process that quickly cuts to the important issues and includes the managers who are critical to executing the plan. Planning and execution are interdependent, which is why planners and implementers need to work together from the beginning of plan development. Plan To Win outlines a clear, step-by-step process using the four market-tested principles of successful strategies and helps the reader avoid the most common mistakes of strategic business planning. As a serious student of military strategy, von Braun draws upon the great Prussian strategic thinker, Karl von Clausewitz, to provide the first three principles: 1) concentrate on the most important goal, 2) commit sufficient resources up front to ENSURE success; and 3) continue to focus on the goal until success is achieved. To these three, the author, Peter von Braun adds the fourth imperative, bring your key people together in the process of creating a business plan that will be understand, committed to and most importantly acted upon. That's not to say the strategy should be a big "group-think" exercise. The key is to follow a disciplined and scientific process that can cut through the unimportant information and focus on the meat of the opportunity. The author guides the reader through the step-by-step process of identifying the core issues and developing THE winning strategy using the first round strategic framework created during a real world case study. Creating a strategic plan is hard work, but by following the principles put forth in this book effectively and thoroughly, success is far more likely. This is a terrific book for business owners and executives, division managers, strategic planners, young executives interested in finding tools to further their careers, students and those interested in strategy.