A Simple Strategy

Whether your company is a Fortune or a $50 million operation, in order to be successful, you must operate from a simple strategy. Now, let’s not confuse the word simple with easy; at times simple is very difficult to achieve. Yet, if a strategy is not simple enough that every employee of a company can not only understand the strategy, but knows how the strategy guides their day to day activities, it will be difficult.

According to Dr. Chuck Bamford, the end result of strategy development need not be more complex than a one page map containing five key elements: Value Drivers, descriptions of Stakeholder Experience, Critical Success Factors, Must Do’s and Metrics. The map also includes a Mission Statement based on the strategy elements. In this article, I would like to briefly illustrate each element.

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