FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy: How to Use Strategic Planning to Start Up or Grow Your Business

Written by Bharath Ravi | Jul 21, 2020 5:31:04 AM

Want to take your company to the next level?  You need a roadmap, a strategy.  Preferably one that is simple, workable and saleable.  This book provides you with just that.  It sets out a straightforward strategy development process, the ‘Strategy Pyramid’, and guides you through it.  It uses a lively central case study throughout, as well as drawing on examples of how real businesses have developed winning strategies.  Whether you are intent on growing your business, or setting out on your start-up, this book offers an uncomplicated, practical and readable guide on how to get the strategy you need for your business to succeed.

It offers sound advice on the following areas:

  • Setting goals and objectives
  • Forecasting market demands
  • Gauging industry competition
  • Tracking competitive advantage
  • Targeting the strategic gap
  • Bridging the gap with business strategy
  • Bridging the gap with corporate strategy
  • Addressing risk and opportunity

The FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy will help businesses of all sizes to chart and realise their growth ambitions.

FT Essential Guide to Developing a Business Strategy: How to Use Strategic Planning to Start Up or Grow Your Business| Vaughan Evans (Author)| FT Press

Table of Contents

About the author
Introduction

part 1. Strategy development
Chapter 1. Knowing your business
Chapter 2. Setting goals and objectives
Chapter 3. Forecasting market demand
Chapter 4. Gauging industry competition
Chapter 5. Tracking competitive advantage
Chapter 6. Targeting the strategic gap
Chapter 7. Bridging the gap: business strategy
Chapter 8. Bridging the gap: corporate strategy
Chapter 9. Addressing risk and opportunity

part 2. Strategic planning
Chapter 10. The strategic plan
Chapter 11. The strategic planning process

Conclusion
Appendix: Structured interviewing
Further reading
Glossary
Index

LINK FOR THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Guide-Developing-Business-Strategy-dp-1292002611/dp/1292002611/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1592225720