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In helping clients develop strategy, during the last 24 years, Bill Birnbaum learned that the most successful management teams place far more emphasis on strategic thinking than on strategic planning. Oh sure, they develop a strategic plan. And they publish their plan. And they share it with their employees. But their first priority is to create an environment of strategic thought.
He also discovered that successful management teams focus on four fundamental factors, or four pieces of the strategic puzzle...
1. Rather than try to accomplish "everything," they diligently maintain
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In helping clients develop strategy, during the last 24 years, Bill Birnbaum learned that the most successful management teams place far more emphasis on strategic thinking than on strategic planning. Oh sure, they develop a strategic plan. And they publish their plan. And they share it with their employees. But their first priority is to create an environment of strategic thought.
He also discovered that successful management teams focus on four fundamental factors, or four pieces of the strategic puzzle...
1. Rather than try to accomplish "everything," they diligently maintain focus.
2. They develop and maintain an intimate understanding of their markets and of their customers within those markets.
3. They truly care about thus they nurture their people.
4. And they carefully manage their processes.
This book includes four parts, each corresponding to a piece of the strategic puzzle. Those parts are: Focus, Markets, People and Process. Each part contains a number of chapters discussing important strategic concepts. In Part I, you'll find the first piece of the strategic puzzle focus. There, you'll learn that focus is one of Bill Birnbaum's two strong biases. It's a point he consistently drives home with his clients. For he believes that focus -- that is, concentrating resources on few, rather than many -- leads to success. And, as he explains, "It isn't enough to focus on just a few products, services, markets or activities. You've also got to be sure you're focusing on the right ones."
Part II discusses your markets. In our capitalistic economy, there's only one way to make money you've got to sell something to somebody. So you and your management team had better care a whole lot about marketing. In Part II, you'll examine your marketplace, your product or service offering, and your relationship with your customer.
In Part III, you'll read about leading your people. Remember our mentioning that one of Bill Birnbaum's two strong biases is focus? Well, his other bias is this It's one thing to develop a strategy; it's quite another to get that strategy implemented. And you're not likely to implement it successfully if your employees don't care about it. So you'd better get your employees to care about your strategy. There's just one way to do that you'd first better care about your employees.
In Part IV, you'll learn about managing process. Businesses contain processes and systems. And those processes and systems follow certain "truisms." Like "diminishing returns," "the 80-20 rule," and "the path of least resistance." Also in this section, you'll contrast "working a process" with "working a project." And you'll discover when you can beneficially use each. And when you can't.
You'll also find valuable lessons in both appendices. Appendix A discusses development of your mission statement. There, you'll discover answers to three important questions, "What is a mission statement?" Why do we need one?" And "How should we write a mission statement?" In fact, you'll learn a proven technique for developing your mission statement with just a few people, or with many people, participating.
In Appendix B, you'll discover the weaknesses of the traditional strategic planning process -- thus the need to reinvent strategic planning. And you'll learn of a new planning process one more appropriate to the realities of our 21st Century.
And by the way, this isn't an academic text. Instead, it's a collection of strategic concepts learned over 24 years -- presented by way of anecdotal stories and simple diagrams. You'll find it not only instructional, but also a fun read.


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Autorenporträt
For over three decades, I've worked with senior management teams helping them develop a shared strategic vision for their organization and then turn that vision into a sound business strategy. For 20 years, I published and edited the Business Strategies Newsletter. I've authored a number of strategy books including "Strategic Thinking: A Four Piece Puzzle," currently in its fifth printing. Also for 20 years, I taught strategy courses for the American Management Association including: • The Strategic Planning Course • Strategy Implementation (I developed this course for the AMA) • Thinking and Managing Strategically I also developed The Strategic Planning WorkshopTM, a hands-on program to prepare senior management teams to develop their strategic plan. I've conducted that program for hundreds of organizations and thousands of senior and mid-level managers. I've served on the board of directors for three high-growth corporations, all of which were acquired per the plan I help them develop. • ISR Corporation • Trans-met Engineering • Woodroof Laboratories I'm certified as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Business Administration. In 2007, I lived and worked as a business consultant in Abancay, Peru, helping entrepreneurs and university students stimulate economic development in this poor region of the Peruvian Andes. I lectured at both UNAMBA and UTEA Universities and wrote for Nuevo Management Journal. I speak, read and write Spanish, and have traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico and South America. Now semi-retired, I work with a few select clients from time to time. I continue to write on the subject of business strategy development and implementation and also offer critique of strategic plans and strategic planning processes.