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Designing a Business Strategy

Get Down to Business

A business strategy is created to outline purposefully the path a business must take to achieve its desired outcomes. Behind your business strategy is a series of deliberate, data-driven decisions about markets, products, and services. It also involves your organization’s culture, from which your business goals, decision-making processes, and measurements of success evolve. When described this way, business strategy sounds energizing, dynamic, and meaningful. So why is it that the majority of business strategies appear constrained, confused, and stagnant?

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