strategy

What is the long-term direction of your company?

Strategy is a roadmap for your company. It sets out your mission, vision and the direction you are taking. The purpose of a strategy is to maximise your strengths by articulating the unique way your business adds value.

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Strategy Framework

In an increasingly voltile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous trading environment, a company strategy provides clarity, stability and dynamism. Good strategy relies on an understanding of the business and the market(s) you operate in.

Strategy covers all areas of your business. A well thought out strategy integrates the activities of your company, allocates resources to meet objectives and provides for measurement and insight. While planning a strategy it is important to consider that decisions are not taken in isolation and consultation, communication and culture are key to successful strategic alignment, development and implementation.

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Ambition

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5 min

Ambition: the first element of the Strategy Framework.

Culture and Strategy

Video

3 min

Ambition: Professor Charles O'Reilly discusses the nature of culture and strategy in companies.

Business Model Canvas for startups

Video

3 min

Ambition: Emer O'Donnell, Founders Forum Manager, talks about business model canvas.

Making Strategy Central

Video

3 min

Ambition: Dan Barry of Enterprise Ireland, talks about the importance of Strategy.

Analysis

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5 min

Analysis: the second element of the Strategy Framework.

Competitive advantage

Video

3 min

Analysis: Helen Blake of Futurecurve talks about competitive advantage through customer experience and pricing in a Brexit context

How to Identify New Opportunities to Drive Long Term Growth

Video

5 min

Analysis: Iain Jawad of Frost & Sullivan outlines the tools & methods that help to identify new opportunities to drive long term growth.

Developing Competitive Advantage for your Company

Video

5 min

Analysis: Advice on how to create Competitive advantage for your organisation in the most simple and systematic way.

Business Strategy Frameworks

Article

15 min

Analysis: Strategy Frameworks by Anthony Taylor and Jeremie Mariton

Development

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5 min

Development: the third element of the Strategy Framework.

Simplify Your Strategy

Video

4 min

Development: Donald Sull, London Business School professor, poses three questions to break down complex strategies into actionable steps.

The six functions of Strategy

Article

5 min

Development: The six functions of Strategy by Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, a strategy writer, speaker, trainer and advisor.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Video

3 min

Development: Blue Ocean Strategy, how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant

Execution

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5 min

Execution: the fourth element of the Strategy Framework.

Five reasons most companies fail at Strategy Execution

Article

8 min

Execution: If your organisational culture has these five characteristics, all attempts to implement strategic change will likely be doomed. By Quy Huy, INSEAD Professor of Strategic Management.

Company Strategy

Video

2 min

Execution: Company Strategy. Professor Bill Bartnett outlines what works for one company, may not work for another.

Top Leaders’ Effectiveness at Strategy Execution and Development

Article

5 min

Execution: Only 8% of leaders are good at both Strategy and Execution. By Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner.

Current Strategy Programmes

Go Global 4 Growth Programme

Programme

8 months

Go Global 4 Growth is Enterprise Ireland’s premier strategy implementation programme that assists business leaders in refining their strategic thinking.

Business Planning Programme

Programme

1 day

Business Planning workshop enables Irish SMEs to identify their key accelerators and inhibitors to growth and produce a well thought out business plan.

Business Pillars

Enterprise Ireland has developed a Client Engagement Model (CEM), a process of how Enterprise Ireland works with clients across their different stages of development. This is modeled on a structured framework which we work with clients so that we can come up with an agreed plan of action with the company. The 6 Business Pillars are explained in more detail below.

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