Strengthening your Business Model and Competitive Advantage

The focus of Strengthening your Business Model and Competitive Advantage training are as follows. Five issues for which you may continually want answers for your business:

• Why are some businesses consistently outperforming their rivals?
• What is Strategy
• How can competitive success be attained and sustained?
• How does a business survive turbulent times?
• What roles for leadership in strategy?

Course Contents

Day One

Redefining Your Business Model

• Designing your Strategy Canvass
• Mastering Michael Porter's Five Forces Model.
• What competition stands for
• Business Warfare vs Business Competition
• Performing for profit

Day Two

Redefining Competitive Advantage

• Creating value
• Drawing up your business Value Chain
• Focusing on your core competence.

Sustainable Advantage            

• What does Superior Performance mean?
• Competing to be The Best
• Competing to be Unique
• Bypassing competitive convergence.

Day Three

Choosing Your Strategic Position

• A cost advantage position
• A differentiated position
• Your pricing and profitability.

Measuring Your Competitive Success

• Operational Effectiveness (OE)
• The right measures
• The wrong measures.

Day Four

The Seven Tests of a Good Strategy

• Value proposition
• Value chain
• Trade-offs
• Fitness
• Scalability
• Continuity
• Profit and Loss (P and L) Trend.