Simple Strategic Planning: Five moves to building a competitive advantage

This guide will walk you through five definitive moves that will improve business competitiveness! Why? Because you will learn about your organizations current position in the market place, and you will deeply explore the inner workflows and processes of your organization. This will then allow you to discover an untapped treasure trove of valuable data on your resources and capabilities that has not yet been realized or fully exploited. If you're planning a pivot of your organization, or any part of it, your plan, in effect your strategy, is going to be akin to working blind, without the priceless data yielded in these five moves.

In fact this strategic model will be extremely useful for any entity planning on pivoting and implementing competitive change, to their status quo. Five moves to checkmate is essential for leaders at all levels, and in all organizations and businesses that seek to attain, or retain their competitive advantage. Five moves to checkmate will also assist University and college educators, as well as students wishing to develop their business knowledge and acumen in strategic studies.

What you will learn in ‘Five Moves To Checkmate’ is the importance of making sure you gather all the relevant external and internal data available to you. This data will then be categorized and deposited into well-known and proven strategic templates. Once these strategic templates are completed, the fifth move will connect all the data into a well known and widely used master strategic guide. This guide will be highly valuable in aiding your organization to successfully implement a strategic plan, maximizing your competitive advantage and winning your checkmate.

Phil offers significant experience as an executive in medium sized and large multi-national technology companies in both the UK and the USA. His work took him to all regions across the globe, working with many different companies and cultures. During this tenure Phil encountered many pivots that involved mergers and acquisitions, through to disruption and inflection points, which impacted businesses success. What Phil realized over time is that most companies looked at how specific forces were impacting their business, and how tunneled vision strategies, would concentrate on addressing those specific impacts, instead of reviewing the systemic make up of their organizations crown jewels and treasures, in resources and capabilities. Thus many of these strategies didn't fully come to the fruition that businesses wanted to achieve, Strategies fell short of expectations, time and money were expended, staff became discouraged and faith in the planning process and leadership became strained. Phil began to research the problem and generated a simpler strategic planning based on systems thinking that would help businesses in collecting data on attributes, not only from within the business, but also on the market forces challenging that business. The subsequent strategic model he offers enables an organization to build valued strategic plans that are actionable and can be successfully implemented. This flexibility extends to any organization established for any purpose, public or private, of any size, in any industry. Phil earned his Masters from the University of Liverpool, UK, in International Business and wrote his dissertation on "Formal and Informal institutions and their affects on international business". He gained certificates from Cornell University on Achieving Competitive Advantage and Measuring and Improving Business Performance, and he is certified from Harvard Business School on Disruptive Strategy.