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Download Our Free Primer on Strategy Development and Strategy Execution

By Flevy | October 10, 2014

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What is strategy without execution?  Merely  theory.

A successful business requires both a well developed strategy and the ability to execute on that strategy.  Many companies develop robust strategies, but fail at operationalizing their strategies into implementable steps.

stratdevexecWe have just released a free primer on Strategy Development and Strategy Execution.  It is a 54-slide deck that discusses 12 frameworks, spanning both Strategy Development and Strategy Execution:

  • Porter’s Five Forces
  • Consolidation-Endgame Curve
  • Hoshin Kanri
  • Product Lifecycle
  • Consumer Adoption Curve
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • Blue Ocean Strategy
  • BCG Matrix
  • SWOT
  • PEST
  • Marketing Mix
  • Organizational Hurdles

Here is the download link for our free product: https://flevy.com/strategy-frameworks.

You may also be interested in our end-to-end Business Toolkits focused on these topics.  Each toolkit is comprised of multiple documents that, when used together, provide a comprehensive and holistic framework for the project.

We have a growing collection of Business Toolkits.   You can peruse them all here: https://flevy.com/business-toolkits.

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Most frameworks, guides, and business gurus that discuss corporate strategy focus purely on the theory of great strategy, but don't teach the art of great execution. Without execution, strategy is merely theory. In fact, a common complaint of strategy consulting firms is that they leave clients [read more]

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"Strategy without Tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without Strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu

For effective Strategy Development and Strategic Planning, we must master both Strategy and Tactics. Our frameworks cover all phases of Strategy, from Strategy Design and Formulation to Strategy Deployment and Execution; as well as all levels of Strategy, from Corporate Strategy to Business Strategy to "Tactical" Strategy. Many of these methodologies are authored by global strategy consulting firms and have been successfully implemented at their Fortune 100 client organizations.

These frameworks include Porter's Five Forces, BCG Growth-Share Matrix, Greiner's Growth Model, Capabilities-driven Strategy (CDS), Business Model Innovation (BMI), Value Chain Analysis (VCA), Endgame Niche Strategies, Value Patterns, Integrated Strategy Model for Value Creation, Scenario Planning, to name a few.

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