1. Porters Five Forces Model
1.1. Threat of New Entrants
1.2. Threat of Substitutes
1.3. Bargaining Power of Buyers
1.4. Bargaining Power of Suppliers
1.5. Rivalry Among Existing Competitors
2. Management Ethics
2.1. "involves leaders protecting their employees, customers, and society as a whole from any negative consequences that arise from the actions of their businesses.
2.1.1. Virtue Ethics
2.1.2. Consequentialist View
2.1.3. Deontological View
2.1.4. Corporate Governance
2.1.5. Code of Conduct
2.1.6. CSR
3. SWOT
3.1. Strengths
3.1.1. 1. What are we really good at? 2. What are our best & unique skills? 3. What internal talent do we have?
3.2. Weaknesses
3.2.1. 1. What does our company lack? 2. What departments or sections of the company are lagging behind? 3. Where are we losing time & money?
3.3. Opportunities
3.3.1. 1. What are the market opportunities that we have? 2. What are the changes in our external environment that we can take advantage of? 3. Can we tap into new customer strategies?
3.4. Threats
3.4.1. 1. What expertise do we lack in our efforts to use opportunities? 2. What is it that our competitors are doing better than us? 3. What's happening in the economy or industry that can adversely affect us?
4. Strategic Decisions
4.1. Traditional Business-Level Strategies
4.1.1. cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies.
4.2. Blue Ocean Strategy
4.2.1. a newer and more radical business-level strategy.
4.3. Elements of Value
4.3.1. focus strategy on customer needs
4.4. Corporate Level Strategy
5. Strategic Foresight
5.1. Identify external trends in your environment
5.2. Know what it takes to win in an industry
5.3. Look critically at your firm's strengths and weaknesses
5.4. Weigh the needs of stakeholders
5.5. Avoid common missteps in strategy
6. First Mover Advantage
6.1. A first mover is a business that gains a competitive advantage by being the first to market with a product or service.
7. Financial Statements
7.1. Income Statement
7.1.1. shows company revenue and expenses in a given period
7.2. Balance Sheet
7.2.1. Assets, Liabilities, and Capital in a business at a specific time
7.3. Cash Flow Statement
7.3.1. Companies inflow and outflow of cash
8. Business Level Strategy
8.1. typically focuses on a single market or type of customer.
8.2. 1. Who will we serve? 2. What customer needs will we satisfy? 3. Why do we want to satisfy these needs? 4. How will we go about satisfying our customers' needs?
9. Corporate Level Strategy
9.1. The corporate firm may choose to have business units that each focus on different products, markets, or customers. Business units within a larger organization may even pursue different business-level strategies.
10. Competitive Advantage
10.1. When a company is in a favorable or superior business position.
11. Financial Ratios
11.1. Growth
11.1.1. YTY Growth
11.1.2. CAGR/ Return Rate
11.2. Profitability Ratios
11.2.1. Gross Margin
11.2.2. Operating Margin
11.2.3. Net Profit Margin
11.2.4. Return on Equity
11.2.5. Return on Assets
11.3. Liquidity Ratios
11.3.1. Current Ratio
11.3.2. Quick Ratio
11.3.3. Cash Ratio
11.4. Leverage Ratios
11.4.1. Debt to Equity Ratio
11.4.2. Debt to Capital Ratio
11.4.3. Debt to Enterprise Value Ratio
12. 5 Skills of Ethical Decision Making
12.1. 1. Recognizing Ethical Issues
12.2. 2. Investigating Facts
12.3. 3. Identifying Stakeholders
12.4. 4. Generating Solutions
12.5. 5. Evaluating Consequences
13. Strategic Execution
13.1. Balanced Scorecard
13.1.1. strategic planning and management system that organizations use to focus on strategy and improve performance.