Strategic Action Plan Process and Workshop

Strategic Action Plan
Process and Workshop
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CEG Strategic Action Plan Process
Flowchart
OVERVIEW
NOW
WHERE
HOW
ACTION
Management Buy-In
Interviews
Vision / Destination
Statement
Critical Issues
People First
Business Analysis
Mission
Strategies
Leadership
Pestlied
Purpose
Initiatives –
Action Plans
Strategic Mapping
Strategic SWOT
Core Values
Strategic
Accountabilities
Corrective Action
Paradigm Shift
Analysis
Objectives
Budgets
Middle Mgt /
Team Leader
Magic Wand List/
Whinge List
Core Business
Statement
Strategy Map
High Performance
Teams
Sustainable
Competitive Advantage
Balanced Scorecard
KPI’S/Initiatives
Emerging Issues
Growth Strategies
Communication
Plan
Reporting
Performance
Management
Ranking Issues
Scenario Planning
Situation Review
Strategic Plan
Business Plan
Implementation
Module One –
What is Strategy?
What is Strategy?
 To achieve superiors profitability and value to
customers
 Competition is about a relative advantage
and is dependent on differentiation
 Operational effectiveness is essential but is
not a replacement for strategy
Defination
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A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the
reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching
those goals. It may also contain background information about the
organization or team attempting to reach those goals.
For-profit business plans typically focus on financial goals, such as
profit or creation of wealth.
Business plans may be internally or externally focused. Externally
focused plans target goals that are important to external stakeholders,
particularly financial stakeholders. They typically have detailed
information about the organization or team attempting to reach the
goals
Internally focused business plans target intermediate goals required to
reach the external goals. They may cover the development of a new
product, a new service, a new IT system, a restructuring of finance, the
refurbishing of a factory or a restructuring of the organization. An
internal business plan is often developed in conjunction with a
balanced scorecard or a list of critical success factors
Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only
general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.
Defination
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Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its
strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources
to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Various
business analysis techniques can be used in strategic planning,
including SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and
Threats ) and PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social, and
Technological analysis) or STEER analysis (Socio-cultural,
Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors) and
EPISTEL (Environment, Political, Informatic, Social, Technological,
Economic and Legal).
Strategic planning is the formal consideration of an organization's
future course. All strategic planning deals with at least one of three key
questions:
 "What do we do?"
 "For whom do we do it?"
 "How do we excel?“ In business strategic planning, the third
question is better phrased "How can we beat or avoid
competition?". Our point of differentiation
What is Strategic Thinking?
 Anticipation; reading the game
 Big picture; knowing what to do
 Conscious and deliberate; leadership
“I skate to where I think the puck will be.”
Wayne Gretsky
Planned versus Emergent Strategy
Formal Oncea-year
Planning &
Budgeting
What happens in practice will
always be some blend of what
is intended and what emerges
along the way - Mintzberg (1994)
Adopted Strategy
Unrealised
Strategy
Developed
Continuously as
New Issues Arise
Emergent
Strategy
Objectives & Benefits
Of
Strategic Plans
Objective
Improve Shareholder Value
Revenue Growth
Strategies
Increase value
to customer
Grow new business
in existing and
new customers
Productivity Strategy
Improve cost
structure
Improve use of
assets
Revenue Growth Strategies
 Increase Revenue
 Better Margins and Product Mix Services
Existing
Markets
New
Markets
Existing Products / Services
New Products / Services
Market Penetration
Product Expansion
Existing products /
services in existing
markets
New products in existing
markets
Market Expansion
Diversification
Existing products in new
markets
New products in new
markets
Six Sigma – A measure of productivity
variation
THE COST OF QUALITY
Sigma Defects per Million
Level Opportunities
Cost of
Quality
2
308,537 (Non-competitive
companies)
Not applicable
3
66,807
25 – 40% of sales
4
6,212 (Industry average)
15 – 25% of sales
5
233
5 – 15% of sales
6
3.4 (World class)
<1% of sales
Each sigma shift provides a 10% net income improvement
Source: Six Sigma, M Harry & R Schroeder
Keys to Success
1. People First
5. Teams
2. Strategy
4. Operational
Innovation
3. Sales
(Revenue Growth)
People First
“Right people on the bus, wrong
people off the bus and the right
people in the right seats”
Jim Collins “Good to
Great” please
reference
PRINTERS
Strategy
1. Differentiate
2. Customers, Customers, Customers!
Focus
3. Increase Revenue
4. Operational Efficiency
Strategy
“Obstacles are what you see if
you lose sight of the goal”
Teams and Training
Teams are the foundation of
High Performance Companies –
Try as you might, you cannot get
to high performance without
them.
Now – Where? – How?
Business Plan
Critical Issues
Strategies
Action Plans
60 – 100 Issues
SWOT/PEST
Situational
Review
Strategic Planning
Workshop
Vision
Business
Statement
Objective
Prioritise Issues
1 Page Plan
Situational Review
NOW
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Magic Wand List / “Whinge List”
Management Interviews
PESTLIED
STEER
Strategic SWOT
Strategic Marketing
Business Analysis
The Strategic Plan
WHERE
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Vision / Destination Statement
Mission
Core Values
Purpose
Core Business Statement
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Position the Product Portfolio
Growth Strategies
Defining Critical Issues
Scenario Planning
Business Plan
HOW
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Critical Issues
Strategies
Initiatives – Action Plans
Strategic Accountabilities
Budgets
Strategy Map
Balanced Scorecard KPIs / Initiatives
Communication Plan
Implementation
ACTION
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People First
Leadership
Strategy Mapping
Corrective Action
Middle Management / Team Leader
High Performance Teams
Emerging Issues
Reporting
Performance Management
Module Three –
Now – Situational
Review
Situational Review
NOW
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Magic Wand List / “Whinge List”
Management Interviews
PESTLIED
Strategic SWOT
Review current business documentation
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Marketing and sales plans
Business plans ( last year)
Employee & customer surveys
Financials/Budgets
Research
Stretch Brainstorm
(Magic Wand)
If you did not have to worry
about time or money, what
would I change about my
business.
My business “issues list”
Management Interviews
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Purpose of interviews: The easiest way to identify the key/critical
issues in a business is to undertake a series of interviews of between
30 minutes – 1 hour duration across the organisation using our
diagnostic questionnaire. Within 2 or 3 days you will have identified
everything you need to know about the business including culture, the
politics, priorities, opportunities, issues, inhibitors etc.
Interview a cross section of individuals at all levels – Senior
management, middle/line mangers, supervisory level and some
frontline staff
Ensure you interview senior managers of marketing, sales, operations,
technology, HR, finance, innovation/product, etc
Ensure confidentiality ( consider using an internal/external consultant)
typically undertake a minimum of 8 and maximum of 30 interviews
Use Diagnostic General Questionnaire attached
Summarise issues into Issue List Template and complete
Diagnostic Questionnaire Survey
Identify issues into their appropriate category – management,
marketing, sales, operations etc. Please note an issue can be in more
than one category
Economical
Technical
Political
PESTLIED
Model –
What’s happening in the
world around us?
(Source: Annual Reports)
Social
Legal
ORGANISATION
Demographic
International
Environmental
SWOT
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
Build Greater Capability
Fix or Improvise
Assess Internal Capabilities
Internal
Summarise from questionaire
Respond Cautiously
Consider Responses
Assess External Environment
OPPORTUNITIES
External
THREATS
Module Four –
Where – Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan
WHERE
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Vision
Mission/Purpose
Core Values
Core Business Statement
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Porters 5 Forces
Customer Value Proposition
Growth Strategies – Objectives & Goals
Defining Critical Issues
Definitions
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Vision: Defines the desired or intended future state of a specific
organization or enterprise in terms of its fundamental objective and/or
strategic direction. Vision is a long term aim, a view of how the
organization would like the world in which it operates to be.
Mission: Defines the fundamental purpose of an organization or an
enterprise, basically describing why it exists. A corporate Mission can
last for many years, or for the life of the organization. It is not an
objective with a timeline, but rather the overall goal that is
accomplished over the years as objectives are achieved that are
aligned with the corporate mission.
Values: Beliefs that are shared among the stakeholders of an
organization. Values drive an organization's culture and priorities.
Planning
Tip
Values include the stated values and the “real values”. Real values
can be described as “what really happens here” . The “real values”
unless understood can impact a businesses ability to implement its
plan
Vision, Mission, Values
Walt Disney Example
Purpose
To make people happy
Core Values
 No cynicism
 Nurturing and promulgation of “wholesome”
American values
 Creativity, dreams and imagination
 Fanatical attention to consistency and detail
 Preservation and control of the Disney magic
Mission
Disney’s overriding objective is to create
shareholder value by continuing to be the
world’s premiere entertainment company from a
creative strategic and financial standpoint.
Culture of one of the World’s Leading
Technology Companies
Quality Team
Open
Communication
Stretch Goals
Teamwork
Empowerment
Trust
Frugality
No Technology
Religion
Drive Change
Customer
Business Statement Example
The CORE PROCESS: We market, design and construct..
The PRODUCT:
quality new homes..
The CUSTOMER:
for high net worth individuals.
Up market project home builder
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
DEFINITION:
The point of difference or winning
edge that will enable you to beat
others in the same business.
Defination
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Competitive advantage is, in very basic words, a position a firm occupies against its competitors.
According to Michael Porter, the three methods for creating a sustainable competitive advantage are
through:
1. Cost leadership - Cost advantage occurs when a firm delivers the same services as its competitors but
at a lower cost; [1]
2. Differentiation - Differentiation advantage occurs when a firm delivers greater services for the same
price of its competitors. They are collectively known as positional advantages because they denote the
firm's position in its industry as a leader in either superior services or cost; [2]
3. Focus (economics) - A focused approach requires the firm to concentrate on a narrow, exclusive
competitive segment (market niche), hoping to achieve a local rather than industry wide competitive
advantage. There are cost focus seekers, who aim to obtain a local cost advantage over competition and
differentiation focuser, who are looking for a local difference. [3]
Many forms of competitive advantage cannot be sustained indefinitely because the promise of economic
rents invites competitors to duplicate the competitive advantage held by any one firm.
A firm possesses a sustainable competitive advantage when its value-creating processes and position
have not been able to be duplicated or imitated by other firms, [4]. Sustainable competitive advantage
results, according to the resource-based view theory in the creation of above-normal (or supranormal)
rents in the long run..
The primary factors of competitive advantage are innovation, reputation and relationships.
Competitive advantage occurs when a organization acquires or develops an attribute or combination of
attributes that allows it to outperform its competitors. These attributes can include access to natural
resources, such as high grade ores or inexpensive power, or access to highly trained and skilled personnel
human resources. New technologies such as robotics and information technology either to be included as
a part of the product, or to assist making it
Discipline of Market Leaders
The idea is to be excellent at one and very good at the other two !!!!
 Operational Excellence
Price  Consistent Quality  Speed 
 Customer Intimacy
Service  Relationship  Flexibility 
 Product leadership
Features  Innovation  Speed to Market
Adapted from Kaplan & Norton (2000)
Stuck In The Middle
PRICE
High Volume
Low Margin
QUALITY
High Margin
Low Volume
Competitive Advantage
Hyundai
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Marketing Strategy
Operations Strategy
Innovation
Strategy
Human
Resource
Strategy
Financial
Strategy
BMW
Competitive Advantage Exercise
Hyundai
( price & volume)
BMW /Mercedes
( quality)
Marketing
Market on TV and mass
newspapers to their their
age segments
Market in business
magazines, prestige
events, selective TV
shows and CRM
Operations
Located in low cost
countries with high volume
highly mechanised
production
Germany is benchmark
& replicate in South
Africa, USA highly
mechanised production
Innovation
Copy
Lead innovation
Human Resource
Strategy
Low cost with selective
areas of expertise
Highly qualified
workforce – engineers
etc
Finance
Lowest cost
Huge innovation
budget – lead the
world
Step 2: Sustainable Competitive Advantage
DEVELOP YOUR SCA
VALUE TO CUSTOMERS
High 10
5
Low 0
5
10 High
ABILITY TO BEAT COMPETITORS
Step 3: Sustainable Competitive Advantage
TOP 5 ITEMS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
PERVASIVENESS SCORE
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How will you WIN?
Use attached Success Factors
Template
A simple way to think about what is your
Sustainable Competitive Advantage Step 1
ITEMS THAT ARE CRITICAL TO THE
SUCCESS OF YOUR BUSINESS
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Porter’s 5 Forces Nature of Competition
Potential new
Entrant
Threat of
Bargaining power
new entrants
of buyers
Industry
competitors
Suppliers
Buyers
Rivalry among
existing firms
Bargaining power
Threat of
of suppliers
substitute products
Substitutes
Source: Michael E Porter Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance Free Press 1985
Porters 5 Forces
The Customer Value Proposition
Private Sector
What Benefits Are We Offering to Customers?
Product &&Service
Product
ServiceAttributes
Attributes
+
Image
Image
+
Relationship
Relationship
• Price
• Brand
• Empathy
• Features
• Status
• Personal
• Build and Dynamic Quality
• Reputation
• Membership
• Accessibility and Convenience
• Intimacy
• Speed and Consistency
• Self-Managed and Reach
• Error-Free
The challenge is to identify what
• Safety
each customer segment prefers
• Comfort
• Choice and Flexibility
and to deliver those preferences.
Strategy Canvas Example
The Strategy Canvas of the Short-Haul Airline Industry
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Other
Airlines
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Offerings
Car
Southwest
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low
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lounges
seating
choices
meals
price
hub
connectivity
Factors Of Competition
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friendly
service
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speed
frequent
departures
See reference page
Case Study - Southwest Airlines
No
meals
No seat
assignments
Frequent,
reliable
departures
15 - minute
gate
turnarounds
Lean, highly
productive
ground &
gate crews
High
compensation
of employees
Flexible
union
contracts
High level
of employee
stock
ownership
Limited
passenger
service
Limited use
of travel
agents
Automatic
ticketing
machines
High
aircraft
utilisation
No baggage
transfers
No
connections
with other
airlines
Standardised
fleet of 737
aircraft
Short-haul,
point-to-point
routes between
midsize cities
and secondary airports
Very low
ticket prices
“Southwest
the low-fare
airline”
Porter’s Activity Map
Source: Porter on Competition
Positioning
Frequent,
reliable
departures
The positioning of Southwest is multiple in the
sense that it is serving part of the needs of some
customers (ie. getting them to the target city at a
convenient time) who use other airlines, whilst it
may be serving all of the needs of other customers
who can only pay low fares and are not fussed
about landing at a secondary airport. If I had to pick
it I would say that the positioning is a mixture of
Variety and Access-based positioning. It is broadly
targeted in that it ignores the more idiosyncratic
needs of particular customer groups. (The Model T
Ford of air travel!)
Standardised
fleet of 737
aircraft
Short-haul,
point-to-point
routes between
midsize cities
and secondary airports
Very low
ticket prices
“Southwest
the low-fare
airline”
Leunig View
Trade-offs
No
meals
No seat
assignments
Limited
passenger
service
Limited use
of travel
agents
No baggage
transfers
No
connections
with other
airlines
Standardised
fleet of 737
aircraft
Short-haul,
point-to-point
routes between
midsize cities
and secondary airports
Very low
ticket prices
Leunig View
Enabling Strategies
No
meals
No seat
assignments
Frequent,
reliable
departures
15 - minute
gate
turnarounds
Limited
passenger
service
Limited use
of travel
agents
No baggage
transfers
No
connections
with other
airlines
Standardised
fleet of 737
aircraft
Short-haul,
point-to-point
routes between
midsize cities
and
secondary airports
Lean, highly
productive
ground &
gate crews
High
compensation
of employees
Flexible
union
contracts
High level
of employee
stock
ownership
Automatic
ticketing
machines
High
aircraft
utilisation
Leunig View
Objectives/Goals
WHAT ARE THE KEY OBJECTIVES
YOU ARE TARGETTING?
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4.
5.
6.
01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06
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Module Five –
How – Business Plan
Business Plan
HOW
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Critical Issues
Strategies
Initiatives – Action Plans
Strategic Accountabilities – Who
When
Budgets – how much
Balanced Scorecard & Strategy Map
Measurements & KPIs
What are the critical issues and how
do we determine them?
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Critical Issues: Critical issues are issues identified that will impact a
businesses ability to implement its strategy. These issues cover all
areas/processes of the business plus culture, politics, customers,
suppliers. In a business planning context they all need to be addressed
for the following reasons
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They are interlinked: Interconnectivity is a concept that can be summarized as
that all parts of a system interact with and rely on one another simply by the
fact that they occupy the same system, and that a system is difficult or
sometimes impossible to analyze through its individual parts considered
alone.
Prioritisation: Once all the critical issues have been identified and in the
“How” part of the business plan we describe how to address them i.e.. critical
issue (CI)>strategy to address CI > Action Plan > Who > When > How Much >
Measures > Links to other CI’s, we can then determine the priority
Determining the critical issues allows one to address resourcing and
budgetary issues i.e. We do not have enough recourses or money to address
all the CI , which ones go first, how do we sequence
Determining critical issues
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Step 1: Take the issues list compiled from management and staff
questionnaires and list in category/process i.e. Management, marketing etc
Review the list of issues in each category to determine critical issues –
remember there will be several issues that are similar that identify an
issue/theme identified by several people through the questionnaire
What are the critical issues and how
do we determine them? ( continued)
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Determining critical issues
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Step 1: Take the issues list compiled from management and staff
questionnaires and list in category/process i.e. Management, marketing etc
Step 2: Review the list of issues in each category to determine critical issues
– remember there will be several issues that are similar that identify an
issue/theme identified by several people through the questionnaire
Step 3: List in Critical issue summary
Exercise:
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Take issue list template and work out what the critical issues are
Planning
Tip
There are normally 2 or 3 Critical Issues per Category
Critical Issues Exercise
Answers
Management
Brand & Marketing
 Senior job roles
 Bringing on & empowering middle
management
 Review organisational structure of x
division
 Competitor reviews
 Brand & marketing strategy review
 Lack of penetration in x segment
Sales
Operations
 Leveraging sales & marketing across
the channel
 Develop the sales culture
 Sales Strategy
 Lack of sales process
 Key account management
 Leverage our resources
 File management, protocol & storage
 Review and update our processes in line
with new technology
 Project Management of IT integration
 Supply chain review (printing, telco,
stationary, freight/couriers)
 Making the key supplier relationship
work effectively
 Gross Margin
Critical Issues Exercise answers
Finance
Innovation
 Review general ledger requirements
 Review management reporting
 Early warning key performance indicators
 Cash and cash management
 Shareholder communication
 Review key supplier reporting
Quantify capital requirements going forward
 Review how we innovate
 Develop an innovation culture
Human Resources
Technology
 Career Path Development
 HR Job Role clarification and interaction with
managers
 Communication
 Look at High Performance Team Process
 Training (team training, project mgt,
leadership, HR training, sales & key account
mgt, KPI training, technology, mentoring)
 Smooth implementation of new technology
SAP
 Look at our IT resource (internal vs.
Outsourcing)
 Printer, copier & outsourcing / productivity
 Intranet
 Server
Critical Issues
Management
1.
1.
Sales / Channel
Competitors
Marketing
1.
1.
Customers
Suppliers
Critical Issues
Technology
1.
Culture
Human Resources
1.
Operations
1.
1.
Innovation
Finance
Critical Issue Action Plan Template
Critical Issue
Action Plan
Critical Issue Description:
Strategy:
Action Plans:
Action
1
2
3
4
Who:
When:
How Much:
How to measure the results:
Comments
Example Critical Issue/Action Plan
NO
ISSUE
1.1
Management team
development
STRATEGY / ACTIONS
ISSUE:
The business plan calls for 25% growth over the next 3years. We need
to develop a top management team capable of operating with more
complexity in a challenging enviroment
STRATEGY:
We need to review HO capabilities and resourcing requirements for the
next 3 years and determine the capabilities required to run this size
business and when should we be recruiting and or developing internal
staff.
The same would apply for middle managers and supervisors
ACTIONS:
1.
Eight of the top 10 key roles have been filled
2.
Communicate the business plan in 1 or 2 day offsite and get others
input – include leadership development program on second d ay.
3.
Allocate action plans to members of the team as a way of testing
and developing them
4.
Develop and or source leadership and skill programs for all staff
including coaching, effective communication and working as a team
WHO:
CEO & HR Director
WHEN:
March 2010
COST:
$55,000
Benefits of a Business Plan
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Lead to better management and
superior business performance
Help you win the war against
your competitors
Lead to better decision making
Result in better management
Offset uncertainty brought about
change
Lead to better control (keeping
the business ‘on track’)
Help people work smarter
Help to build confidence about
the business
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Help to integrate personal and
business goals
Enhance any funding needs
Improve efficiency
Help identify emerging problems
and threats
Facilitate the coordination of work
activities
Increase the focus on results
Put you in charge of your
business
Operational and Strategic Budgeting
Manage
Strategically
Strategic Initiatives
Enhancement
10%
25%
Maintenance
Improve
Operating
Efficiency &
Effectiveness
Operations
65%
Infrastructure
Why Is Strategy Execution So Difficult?
The Vision Barrier
Strategy is not understood by
those who must implement it
Only 5% of the
work force
understands the
strategy
Only 25% of
managers have
incentives linked to
strategy
The People Barrier
Personal goals,
incentives and
competencies are not
linked to strategy
STRATEGY
The Management Barrier
Management systems are
designed for operational
control and little time is
spent on strategy
85% of executive
teams spend less
than one hour per
month discussing
strategy
The Operational Barrier
60% of
organizations don’t Budgeting process is separated
from strategic planning
link budgets to
strategy
Module Six –
How - Implementation
Implementation
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People First
Leadership
Balanced Scorecard/Strategy Mapping
Corrective Action
Middle Management / Team Leader
High Performance Teams
Emerging Issues
Reporting
Performance Management
Balanced Scorecard - Strategy Maps
 “The formulation of great strategies is an art,
and it will always remain so. But the description
of strategy should not be an art. If people can
describe strategy in a more disciplined way, they
will increase the likelihood of its successful
implementation.”
 Kaplan & Norton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a strategic performance management tool for measuring whether the
smaller-scale operational activities of a company are aligned with its larger-scale objectives in terms of
vision and strategy.
By focusing not only on financial outcomes but also on the operational, marketing and developmental
inputs to these, the Balanced Scorecard helps provide a more comprehensive view of a business, which in
turn helps organizations act in their best long-term interests.
Organizations were encouraged to measure, in addition to financial outputs, those factors which influenced
the financial outputs. For example, process performance, market share / penetration, long term learning
and skills development, and so on.
The underlying rationale is that organizations cannot directly influence financial outcomes, as these are
"lag" measures, and that the use of financial measures alone to inform the strategic control of the firm is
unwise. Organizations should instead also measure those areas where direct management intervention is
possible. In so doing, the early versions of the Balanced Scorecard helped organizations achieve a degree
of "balance" in selection of performance measures. In practice, early Scorecards achieved this balance by
encouraging managers to select measures from three additional categories or perspectives: "Customer,"
"Internal Business Processes" and "Learning and Growth.“
Strategy Maps:
measures are selected based on a set of "strategic objectives" plotted on a "strategic linkage model" or
"strategy map With this modified approach, the strategic objectives are distributed across the four
measurement perspectives, so as to "connect the dots" to form a visual presentation of strategy and
measures.
To develop a strategy map, managers select a few strategic objectives within each of the perspectives,
and then define the cause-effect chain among these objectives by drawing links between them. A balanced
scorecard of strategic performance measures is then derived directly from the strategic objectives. This
type of approach provides greater contextual justification for the measures chosen, and is generally easier
for managers to work through.
The Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map
Kaplan and Norton
Financial
Perspective
Improve Shareholder Value
Revenue Growth
Strategy
Build the
franchise
Customer
Perspective
Customer Value
Proposition
Internal
Process
Perspective
Productivity
Strategy
Increase
value
to customers
Improve cost
structure
Improve use
of assets
Product Leadership
Customer Intimacy
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Operational Excellence
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 
Process No 1
New Product
Development
Learning &
Growth Perspective
Process No 2
Brand
Development
Employee competencies
Process No 3
Retail & Outlet
Management
Technology
Process No 4
Operations
Corporate culture
Components of a Balanced Scorecard
Strategy Map
THEME
Customer
Perspective
Financial
Internal
Internal
Perspective
Learning
Perspective
Measures
Targets
F1 - Improve Returns
F2 - Broaden Revenue Mix
F3 - Reduce Cost Structure
 Deposit Service Cost Change -5%
 Global Re-Engineers
C1 - Increase Customer Satisfaction
With Our Products & People
 Share of Segment
 20%
 Sales & marketing
Reorganization &
Training
C2 - Increase Satisfaction “After the
Sale”
 Customer Retention
 95%
I1 - Understand Our Customers
I2 - Create Innovative Products
 New Product Revenue
 10%
I3 - Cross-Sell Products
 Cross-Sell Ratio
 9%
I4 - Shift Customers to CostEffective Channels
I5 - Minimize Operational
Problems
I6 - Responsive Service
 Channel Mix Change
 TBD
 Service Error Rate
 <1%
 Request Fulfillment Time
 <2 days
L1 - Develop Strategic Skills
L2 - Provide Strategic Info
L3 - Align Personal Goals
 Skills Coverage
 Employee Satisfaction
 Revenue per Employee
 15%
 +10%
Initiatives
 Return on Investment
 Revenue Growth
Custome
r
Financial
Perspective
Strategic Objectives
Learning
THEME
Scorecard
 100%
 80%
 Finance 2000
 QFD Project
 Customer Database
 Global Service
Training Program
 HRMS
 Knowledge
Management
System
Financial Outcomes
Customer Outcomes
Process Drivers
Learning /
Development /
Technology Drivers
What A Good Scorecard Looks Like
Mobil NMA&R’s Strategy Map
(Kaplan & Norton (2000), The Strategy-Focused Organization)
Increase ROCE to 12%
Financial
Perspective
• ROCE
• Net Margin (vs. Industry)
Revenue Growth Strategy
New Sources of
Nongasoline
Revenue
Increase Customer
Profitability through
Premium Brands
• Nongasoline Revenue
and Margin
• Volume vs. Industry
• Premium Ratio
Become Industry
Cents Leader
Basic
Mystery
Shopper
• Clean
Rating
• Share of • Safe
segment • Quality Product
• Trusted Brand
Internal
Perspective
• Cash Flow
“Win-Win Dealer Relations”
Differentiators
Speedy
Purchase
Friendly,
Helpful
Employees
“Build the Franchise”
“Increase Customer
Value”
Create
Nongasoline
Products &
Services
Understand
Consumer
Segments
• New Product ROI
• New Product
Acceptance Rate
• Share of Target
Segment
Best-in-Class
Franchise
Teams
More
Consumer
Products
Recognize
Loyalty
Help
Develop
Business
Skills
“Achieve Operational
Excellence”
Improve
Hardware
Performance
On Spec
On Time
• Perfect Orders
• Dealer Profit
Growth
• Dealer
Satisfaction
“Be a Good
Neighbor”
Understand
Consumer
Segments
• Yield Gap
• Inventory Levels
• Unplanned Downtime • Run-out Rate
• Dealer Quality
Rating
Learning &
Growth
Perspective
Maximize Use of
Existing Assets
• Cash Expense (Cost per
Gallon) vs. Industry
“Delight the Consumer”
Customer
•
Perspective
Productivity Strategy
Improve
Environmental,
Health & Safety
• Environmental
Incidents
• Safety Incidents
Industry Cost
Leader
• Activity Cost vs.
Competition
A Motivated and Prepared Workforce
Climate for Action
• Aligned
• Personal Growth
Competencies
• Functional Excellence
• Leadership Skills
• Integrated View
Technology
• Process Improvement
• Y2K
• Personal Scorecard
• Employee Feedback
• Strategic Skill
Coverage Ratio
• Systems Milestones
Mobil NMA&R’s Balanced Scorecard
(Kaplan & Norton [2000], The Strategy-Focused Organization)
Strategic Themes
Strategic Objectives
Strategic Measures
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•
•
•
ROCE
Cash Flow
Net Margin Rank (vs. Competition)
Full Cost per Gallon Delivered (vs. Competition)
Volume Growth Rate vs. Industry
Premium Ratio
Non-gasoline Revenue and Margin
Financial
Financial Growth
F1 Return on Capital Employed
F2 Existing Asset Utilisation
F3 Profitability
F4 Industry Cost Leader
F5 Profitable Growth
Customer
Delight the Consumer
C1 Continually Delight the Targeted Consumer • Share of Segment in Selected Key Markets
• Mystery Shopper Rating
Win-Win Dealer Relations
C2 Build Win-Win Relations with Dealer
• Dealer Gross Profit Growth
• Dealer Survey
Build the Franchise
I1 Innovative Products and Services
• New Product ROI
• New Product Acceptance Rate
I2 Best-in-Class Franchise Teams
• Dealer Quality Score
Safe and Reliable
I3 Refinery Performance
• Yield Gap
• Unplanned Downtime
Competitive Supplier
I4 Inventory Management
• Inventory Levels
• Run-out Rate
I5 Industry Cost Leader
• Activity Cost vs. Competition
Quality
I6 On Spec, On Time
• Perfect Orders
Good Neighbour
I7 Improve EHS
• Number of Environmental Incidents
• Days Away from Work Rate
Motivated and Prepared
L1 Climate for Action
L2 Core Competencies and Skills
L3 Access to Strategic Information
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•
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•
Internal
Learning
And Growth
Employee Survey
Personal Balanced Scorecard (%)
Strategic Competency Availability
Strategic Information Availability
Mobil NMA&R’s Educational Brochure
(Kaplan & Norton (2000), The Strategy-Focused Organization)
NAM&R Strategic Themes
Will guide us to our vision and are defined
above each graph.
NAM&R Strategic Measures
Will keep us focused on achieving
NAM&R’s strategic themes. They are
explained in the graphs and the bulleted
text accompanying them.
Win/Win Relationship
Good Neighbor
Improve Dealer/Wholesale Marketer profitability
through customer-driven products and services
And by developing their business competencies.
Dealer/Mobil Gross Profit
Protect the health and safety of our people, the communities
in which we work, and the environment we all share.
Total profit earned
at Mobil outlets
and split
between our
dealers/wholesaler
marketers and
Mobil
Composite of:
• Reportable
releases to air
and water
• Reportable spills
• Community
reported incidents
1993
1994
Target
Environmental Index
1993
1994
Target
Financially Strong
Safe & Reliable
On Spec On Time
Reward our shareholders by providing a superior long-term
return which exceeds that of our peers.
Maintain a leadership position in safety while keeping our
refineries fully utilized.
Provide quality products supported by quality business
processes that are on time and done right the first time.
Income divided by
capital employed
including all
allocations
ROCE
Days Away from Work
Manufacturing Reliability
12%
8%
7%
1993
1994
Target
1993
1994
Target
1993
1994
Target
Composite of:
• Product off spec
• Order shipped late
• Business process
errors
• Customer
complaints
• Cost of rework
Quality Index
1993
1994
Target
Delight the Consumer
Competitive Supplier
Motivated & Prepared
Understand our consumers’ needs better than anyone and
offer them products and services with exceed their
expectations.
Mystery Shopper
The Mystery
Shopper program
rates how well each
of our stations is
delivering the “best
buying experience.”
Provide product to our terminals at a cost equal to or better
than the competitive market maker.
Develop and value teamwork and the ability to think Mobil,
act locally.
1993
1994
Target
Activity Cost vs. Competition
Our cost to deliver
product to the
terminal vs. lowest
cost provider.
1993
1994
Target
Survey of
employees to
measure how people
perceive the Mobil
workplace
environment
Climate Survey
1993
1994
Target
Corporate Strategy
Bus. Unit Strategy
Individual’s
Performance Plan
High
High
“LINE OF SIGHT” ALIGNMENT
Knowledge
of Work &
Processes
Knowledge
of Strategy
Low
Low
Executive
Middle
Management
Individual
Linking Performance Management
To Change
Leadership Development
Leadership is about Change
Balanced Scorecard
Strategy Map
THEME
Customer
Perspective
Strategic Objectives
Financial
Financial
Perspective
Internal
Internal
Perspective
Learning
Initiatives
Targets
 Return on Investment
 Revenue Growth
F3 - Reduce Cost Structure
 Deposit Service Cost Change -5%
 Global Re-Engineers
C1 - Increase Customer Satisfaction
With Our Products & People
 15%
 +10%
 Sales & marketing
Reorganization &
Training
 Share of Segment
 20%
C2 - Increase Satisfaction “After the
Sale”
 Customer Retention
 95%
I1 I2 -
Understand Our Customers
Create Innovative Products
 New Product Revenue
 10%
I3 -
Cross-Sell Products
 Cross-Sell Ratio
 9%
I4 -
Shift Customers to CostEffective Channels
Minimize Operational
Problems
Responsive Service
 Channel Mix Change
 TBD
 Service Error Rate
 <1%
 Request Fulfillment Time
 <2 days
I5 I6 -
Learning
Perspective
Measures
F1 - Improve Returns
F2 - Broaden Revenue Mix
Custome
r
THEME
Scorecard
L1 - Develop Strategic Skills
L2 - Provide Strategic Info
L3 - Align Personal Goals
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Skills Coverage
Employee Satisfaction
Revenue per Employee
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100%
80%
Identification and Testing
Leaders at all levels though
Strategy implementation
 Finance 2000
 QFD Project
 Customer Database
 Global Service
Training Program
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Balanced Scorecard Identifies
Strategic Initiatives and
Emerging Issues
HRMS
Knowledge
Management
System
KPI and Performance
Report Back
Corrective Action
High Performance
Culture
Capabilities Required
Leadership
Team Leader
High Performance Teams
Understanding Process Flow vs
Organisational Structure
Department
A
Department
B
Department
C
Business Processes Cut Across Departments
Customer
Customer
Michael Porter’s Value Chain
Primary Activities = Generic Core Processes
Generate Revenues
Develop Markets
Build Relationships
Manage Operations
Coordinate Logistics
Conduct R & D
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M
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R
S
Michael Porter’s - Support Activities
Infrastructure & Management Processes
Manage Human Resources
C
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R
E
Manage Information
Administer the Business
Manage the Finances
Manage the Assets
Manage Risks
P
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C
E
S
S
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S
Example - Manufacturing Company
Core Processes
New Product Development
Order Generation and Fulfilment
Integrated Logistics
Example - Consumer Goods Company
New Product Development
Brand Development
Retail Outlet Management
Integrated Logistics
Eg. - Government Agencies in the USA
Core Processes
Establish [Agency's] Direction
Acquire Necessary Resources
Provide Capabilities
Execute the [Agency's] Mission
www.va.gov/fedsbest/
Example - The Dupont Company
Core Processes
Planning
Deliver the Current Offering
Renewal
Identifying Core Processes - Guidelines
 They should face the customer.
 Core processes represent core business. They
do not have to cover 100% of all things the
business does.
 The management team should nominate core
processes. A single person should not be
tasked with the job.
 The processes need to be defined at levels high
enough so that major improvements are visible
to everyone in the organisation or unit.
Identifying Core Processes - Guidelines
(continued)
 They should be recognisable as the platform
around which strategy is developed.
 They should capture the major workflows, which
result in something very quantifiable being
offered to the customer. These workflows
typically involve more than one function.
 There should be minimum overlap between the
core processes. The skills, technologies and
sub-processes should be substantially different
for each.
Identifying Core Processes - Guidelines
(continued)
 It should be clear that measures of quantity,
quality, cost, revenue, and time, applied to these
processes would form the backbone of the
organisation's performance measurement system.
 It should be clear that all strategic contact points
with the customer are covered.
 Vagueness should be avoided. For example
Manage the Business seems to say it all, but is at
too high a cognitive level to work with.
 Elevating a small process to core status puts it
under the spotlight at management reviews.
Forces it to be resourced and managed.
Template for Core Processes
Activity Core Processes
Case Study 1
Global FMCG Subsidiary
BACKGROUND
 A subsidiary of a multinational manufacturing
company that needed to increase their gross margin
from 49% to 62% or close manufacturing operation and
source from overseas.
 Worst-in-class in inter-company benchmarking
 Culture resistant to change with silo mentality
 Top-heavy management
Case Study 1
Global FMCG Subsidiary
STRATEGY
 Set Vision of “best-in-class” and 62% Gross
Margin within 15 months
 Developed implementation plan and
communicated it and restructured quickly
 Focused on process across silos using Value
Stream Analysis
 Implemented high performance team culture and
multi-skilling
 Re-trained workforce ($0.75M)
Case Study 1
Global FMCG Subsidiary
STRATEGY
 Introduced MRPII solution and performance
measurement
 Activity Based Costing to identify customer and
product profitability
 Co-ordination with marketing and customers to
improve manufacturing velocity by
standardisation of packaging
 Re-equipment program ($4M)
Case Study 1
Global FMCG Subsidiary
RESULTS (15 MONTHS)
 Improved gross margin by 13% to 62%
 “Best-in-class”
 Reduced workforce from 150 to 75 and increased output
by 40%
 Reduced stock levels from 120 days to 45 days
 Reduced out-of-stocks from 30% to 5%
 Used some of the cost saving (part of the negotiation
with marketing dept for using consistent bottle shapes)
to increase advertising budget by $3M and increased
sales revenue by 20%
 Developed a multi-skilled high performance team culture
Case Study 2
INTRODUCING SALES FORCE RE-ENGINEERING
AND CRM TECHNOLOGY
BACKGROUND
 2200 customers of which
 Top 200 = 92% of total revenue
 Top 24 customers = 80% of total revenue
 98 sales force & customer service
 Operating in a mature market with no perceived
opportunity for growth
Case Study 2
INTRODUCING SALES FORCE RE-ENGINEERING
AND CRM TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGY
 Introduced new CRM system with a sales process
upgrade
 Develop consultative/solution selling capability model
 Assessed all sales force personnel and restructured
sales force
 Activity Based Costing to identify customer and
product profitability
 Migrated 2000 customers to lower cost customer
service / call centre model or increased prices to get rid
of unprofitable customers
 Refocused sales team on generating sales growth from
top 200 customers
Case Study 2
INTRODUCING SALES FORCE RE-ENGINEERING
AND CRM TECHNOLOGY
RESULTS
 Identified growth opportunities that equated to
98% of current revenue
 Increased gross margin
 Reduced cost of sales force by $5 million