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Why should Entrepreneurs be interested in Strategy Dynamics?
In attempting to build a new venture from nothing, entrepreneurs face a
difficult challenge in persuading investors to fund their proposal - there are
so few facts to go on. Often, then, the investors' support comes down to belief
in the managerial abilities of the fledgling team. Strategy Dynamics, though,
offers both you and your backers an extra degree of confidence ...
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Your future performance will depend on your ability to collect, develop and
retain critical resources - products, people, customers ...
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This may be feasible if the environment in which you hope to operate offers
potential resources for you to exploit ...
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... provided established firms and rival start-ups don't steal them from you
first.
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Your emerging business system will start to generate cash at a rate that
reflects the soundness both of your assessment of these factors and your team's
ability to win and sustain them.
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How is
Strategy Dynamics
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These considerations are amenable to fact based analysis, rather than relying on
expressions of opinion or blind hope. The resulting 'strategic architecture'
for your new venture has some powerful features:
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it is holistic, encompassing all important components of the emerging business
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the framework captures interdependencies, so you can avoid a mismatch between,
for example, sales and service capacity
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the architecture connects explicitly, the substance of your venture with its
costs and revenues, giving you confidence in your cash-flow profile
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it is easily and clearly communicated and shared, both with your backers and
your colleagues
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has clear implementation tasks - who is to do what, when, how much, coordinated
how with others, and producing what anticipated outcomes into the future
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is adaptable, to cope with the unavoidable uncertainties about how your venture
is evolving, and how outside events may disrupt our plans
The principles and frameworks behind the Strategy Dynamics approach are built
on sound theoretical foundations that have implications throughout the
management field, as well as in many others. At the same time, the approach is
practical and clear, understandable by everyone with a professional interest in
business. It is, however, an approach that is 'deceptively simple'. The content
of this website and the publications we offer will provide some insight into
the approach, our sister company
Strategy Dynamics Solutions
also offers services for strategy professionals and managers who wish to
enhance their understanding of the practice of it.
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