Developing a Business Strategy: How to Use Strategic Planning to Start Up or Grow Your Business (Financial Times Essential Guides)

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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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ FT Publishing International; 1st edition (October 17, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1292002611
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1292002613
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.43 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches