A powerful yet practical guide to B2B strategic growth, it\'s like a mini-MBA.
Accelerating profitable Growth has been one of the long-standing challenges of business executives.
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And it will enable you to redirect resources and accelerate the best approaches to deliver results more quickly.
With diligence and discipline, this process will separate the best Growth ideas from the also-rans.
Throughout these pages, Bennett and Fleming share years of experience and knowledge and take readers from strategy apprentice to journeyman strategic thinker.
Making the right decisions relies on a few critical pieces of information: Market and Customer Needs: What unmet and/or under-met needs exist within the market? Differentiation: What do we, or could we do to meet those needs uniquely? Customer Value: How much is it worth to meet those needs? Target Segment: Which potential customers have those needs the most? Business Model: What is the best mechanism to serve those needs and make money? Everything else in the book is designed to help answer those questions.
With the proper training and environment, they can come from almost anywhere in an organization.
The entire Grassroots Strategy process is designed to find a business\' strategic optimal plan where profitable Growth is most likely.
Bennett and Fleming present practical tools and principles that can unleash Growth potential and prove that the myth that the right strategies must emerge from senior executives, consultants, and mystical seers in an ivory tower is debunked.
The book provides a framework for finding Growth in the sweet spot between market needs and a company\'s capabilities.
Still, they are not suited to answer strategic questions around what they should do and why.
Grassroots Strategy conveys what has historically been considered complex concepts in a simple to read and approachable way through stories, case studies, and a little humor.
Lean, Six Sigma, and other efficiency-focused methodologies are fantastic at answering questions on how to do things better.
Many successful business leaders have built their careers on execution and efficiency but have relatively little experience making the strategic decisions that drive both the top and bottom line.
The root cause is a lack of strategy in the organization\'s thinking, planning, and marketing.
Even today, with stock markets booming and M&A activity returning to record levels, organic Growth is anemic for many companies.
A powerful yet practical guide to B2B strategic growth, it\'s like a mini-MBA.
Accelerating profitable Growth has been one of the long-standing challenges of business executives
