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Foundations of Sustainable Business Success

Workshop Duration

Two Days

Target Audience

  • All Senior and Middle Managers involved in all Functions and Divisions

  • High-flying Junior Managers and New Entrants

Deliverables

An understanding of:

  • The basic principles of business success and failure
  • How to create customer “lock-in” and market closure
  • Leveraging value from upstream and downstream business relationships

Workshop Structure

Day One: Foundations Of Business Success

The Business Strategy Debate:
Competitive Market Advantage, Core Competence and Distinctive Capabilities Thinking

The Importance of Critical Asset Management:
Creating Rent-Earning rather than Normal Returns from Supply Chain Resources

First Principles of Strategy:
Strategic Positioning in Supply Chains, Value Chains and Markets

The Essence of Success:
Power through Market Closure, Choke Points and Isolating Mechanisms

Day Two: The Four Principles Of Sustainable Strategic Focus And Leverage

Downstream Customer Focus:
Segmenting and Differentiating Customer Value Propositions and the Functional Utilities in Supply Relationships

Horizontal Competitor Focus:
Industry and Market Structure, Competitive Rivalries, Horizontal Joint Ventures and Alliances and Substitutes

Internal Differentiation Focus:
Linking and Leveraging Employee Competencies with Unique Internal Supply Offerings and the Treadmill of Operational Effectiveness

Vertical Supply Chain Focus:
Buyer and Supplier Power, Forward and Backward Integration, Supply Joint Ventures and Alliances.

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