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Business Strategy Plan Model

Debashish Chakravarty  9:58 AM

Here are six simple steps to help you deliver an effective business strategy:

1. Gather the facts

To know where you’re heading, you have to know where you are right now. So before you start looking ahead, you should review the past performance, or the current situation. Look at each area of the business and determine what worked well, what could have been better and what opportunities lie ahead.

There are many tools and techniques available to help with this process, such as SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) analysis.

You should look internally at your strengths and weaknesses. And for the opportunities and threats you should look at external factors. A great framework for looking at external factors is PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental). So, for your big idea or plan you would ask: what threats and opportunities could arise under each category?

The most important part of this process is involving the right people to make sure you’re collecting the most relevant information.

2. Develop a vision statement

This statement should describe the future direction of the business and its aims in the medium to long term. It’s about describing the organisation’s purpose and values. Business gurus have debated long and hard about what comes first – the vision, or the mission statement (see step 3). But, in practice, you could develop both at the same time.

3. Develop a mission statement

Like the vision statement, this defines the organisation’s purpose, but it also outlines its primary objectives. This focuses on what needs done in the short term to realise the long term vision. So, for the vision statement, you may want to answer the question: “Where do we want to be in 5 years?”. For the mission statement, you’ll want to ask the questions:

• What do we do?
• How do we do it?
• Whom do we do it for?
• What value do we bring?

4. Identify strategic objectives

At this stage, the aim is to develop a set of high-level objectives for all areas of the business. They need to highlight the priorities and inform the plans that will ensure delivery of the company’s vision and mission.

By taking a look back at your review in step one, in particular the SWOT and PESTLE analysis, you can incorporate any identified strengths and weaknesses into your objectives.

Crucially, your objectives must be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-related). Your objectives must also include factors such as KPI’s, resource allocation and budget requirements.

5. Tactical Plans

Now is the time to put some meat on the bones of your strategy by translating the strategic objectives into more detailed short-term plans. These plans will contain actions for departments and functions in your organisation. You may even want to include suppliers.

You’re now focusing on measurable results and communicating to stakeholders what they need to do and when. You can even think of these tactical plans as short sprints to execute the strategy in practice.

6. Performance Management

All the planning and hard work may have been done, but it’s vital to continually review all objectives and action plans to make sure you’re still on track to achieve that overall goal. Managing and monitoring a whole strategy is a complex task, which is why many directors, managers and business leaders are looking to alternative methods of handling strategies. Creating, managing and reviewing a strategy requires you to capture the relevant information, break down large chunks of information, plan, prioritise, capture the relevant information and have a clear strategic vision.

Business Strategy in 6 steps deck

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https://terakeet.com/blog/digital-marketing-plan/

What are the steps to create a digital marketing plan

1. Set goals
2. Define your audience
3. Conduct a competitive analysis
4. Conduct a SWOT analysis
5. Determine your budget
6. Identify your channels
7. Develop specific tactics
8. Create a calendar
9. Measure results

• What is a digital marketing plan?
• How to create a digital marketing plan
  • 1. Define your digital marketing goals and business objectives
  • 2. Define audience segmentation and buyer personas
  • 3. Conduct a competitive analysis and determine market share
  • 4. Conduct a SWOT analysis
  • 5. Calculate your digital marketing plan budget
  • 6. Define your digital channels
  • 7. Develop your digital marketing strategies and tactics
  • 8. Create a marketing calendar
  • 9. Measure the results and KPIs of your digital marketing plan
• Great digital marketing plans encourage integration

F2P Solution Concepts 

Food Supply Chain Stakeholders Map

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Actions ( when )

Processes 

Alerts 

Sample Forms in Trade Finance

https://www.shippingsolutions.com/hubfs/download-assets/The%20Beginners%20Guide%20to%20Export%20Forms%20-%20Shipping%20Solutions.pdf?hsCtaTracking=cbd1ea44-3f99-4b53-8ff0-4abb0a616108%7C5738b156-7c17-434d-9603-6a3b614f78a1

Introduction 

1. Proforma Invoice 6
2. Commercial Invoice 8
3. Certificate of Origin 10
4. Packing List 24
5. Shipper's Letter of Instruction 26
6. Automated Export System 29
7. Inland Bill of Lading 31
8. Dock Receipt 33
9. Ocean BIll of Lading 35
10. Air Waybill 37
11. Dangerous Goods IATA 38
12. Non-Dangerous Goods 42
13. Bank Draft 43

FMS dependencies ( define required, optional modules )

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Potential Value Opportunities

Alaskan Pollock Industry

It's not just a trade finance use case example for a mature, domestic, small business network for F2P
They have a fully matured business process model ( no redesign challenges ) with clear roles
Legislatively defined rules for sustainability
Their network probably score 95 out of a possible 100 on sustainability scores now - a great network to highlight for FP2 in promotion
https://www.alaskapollock.org/

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Atlas - lending platform

Coriolis Atlas is a one-stop shop for SME exporters seeking access to trade finance. Through our innovative suite of business planning tools, invoices, contracts, and related documents are screened and assessed in real-time using proprietary state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to assess business risk and compliance across six Atlas dimensions. SMEs can then use Coriolis Atlas to apply for trade finance directly with their preferred provider through our streamlined, integrated onboarding workflow.

Kosmos - ESG monitoring index

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Legal Terms and Documents 

I have shared the legal artifacts on Blockchain and would appreciate your views.This will help our attorney draft the contents precisely matching our expectations.

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https://www.programmableweb.com/api/new-york-federal-reserve-foreign-exchange-rest-api

exchange rates. The list of data available covers many of the world's currencies, with both spot and buying prices quoted at different times of day. The authoritative provider makes the data available for ingestion to automated processes that must compare currencies to calculate prices for cross-border transactions, in addition to historical research uses. API methods support retrieval of regularly updated data formatted in compliance with the emerging Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) standard. URL-based access delivers data for specific currencies, with both 10 a.m. and noon quotes available for many frequently traded currencies

.API Endpointhttp://www.newyorkfed.org/xml/data/fx/

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https://manage.exchangeratesapi.io/dashboard

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https://manage.exchangeratesapi.io/quickstart

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1. Get the currency codes from a currency code api by country
2. Create the workbook currencyCodesByRegion gsheet
3. Select the currencyCodes list as an input string to create a parm list for forex api
4. Run a groovy script (   ) from file: groovy-ex1.groovy to create a currencyCode parm list for the exchangerateapi query
5. Get the forex table for the currency codes as JSON or CSV and load as a new sheet in the gsheet
6. Use a vlookup on the gsheet countryForex sheet to set the exchangeRateUSD and exchangeRateEUR values for each country returned
7. export the countryForex as a csv file
8. Create a table m_currencycodesforex in a database ( MySQL, Mongo, Postgres etc )
9. Import the countryForex.csv file to the table

Other Financial APIs

F2P solution

MVP Plan

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fmNi3Nptr335LZyp-40l8sM7kntZLzFh/view?usp=sharing

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