Strategy Sketch and Strategic Planning

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Course Outline

  1. Strategy and the Strategy Sketch
  2. Mapping Resources and Partners
  3. Understanding Customers and Competitors
  4. Designing the Value Proposition
  5. Revenue, Risks, and Costs
  6. Values, Goals, and Climate
  7. Trends and Uncertainties
  8. Using the Strategy Sketch

1. Strategy and the Strategy Sketch

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Strategy: The unique way an organization creates sustainable value.

★ Must-know

  • A strategy distinguishes an organization’s way of creating customer value from competitors’ approaches and aims to maintain that value creation over time.

  • The Strategy Sketch combines ten core elements of strategy in a structured, coherent visual tool.

Further detail

  • The ten strategy elements are:
    • Resources & Competences
    • Partners
    • Customers & Needs
    • Competitors
    • Value Proposition
    • Revenue Model
    • Risks & Costs
    • Values & Goals
    • Organizational Climate
    • Trends & Uncertainties

Memory Hook

Picture strategy as a black box: the Sketch opens it to reveal ten connected ingredients.

2. Mapping Resources and Partners

Key Concepts & Definitions

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Practice quiz preview

1. What does an organization’s strategy describe?

2. How can an organization’s strategy help it sustain its customer value creation?

3. What role does the Strategy Sketch serve?

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What is an organization’s strategy?

Its unique way of creating sustainable value.

How does a strategy distinguish an organization from competitors?

By its approach to creating customer value.

What does a strategy aim to maintain over time?

Customer value creation.

What does the Strategy Sketch combine?

Ten core elements of strategy.

What kind of tool is the Strategy Sketch?

A structured, coherent visual tool.

What are Resources & Competences for an organization?

What it has, does well, and what makes it unique.

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