Designing for superior business performance

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Choice 2: Where we play - Assess opportunities and threats

Assess opportunities and threats from the global trends and events.

In this chapter

1. Assess global factors that can affect the demand for your value proposition, or the attributes of your value proposition to maintain relevance and demand.

2. Assess global factors that can affect your costs of production or cost of supply or supply availability.

Introduction - global factors driving change

Describes the trends, events and implications from global trends, events, and decisions upon expectations for the demand and supply for the products / services the business produces or could produce.

Global assessment

Capture, investigate and sustain (journal style) the relevant global trends and events such as Outsourcing, Global supply chains, Sanctions, military conflicts, influence of developing / emerging economies influence of troubled economies, global trade agreements or other items.

Global influences

Events and trends related to industry specific regulation e.g. operating hours, increased capital requirements, permit requirements, privacy requirements

Observations	Record your observations in here What are you seeing?
Beliefs	What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? e.g. Consumers will have more disposable income after taxes. What are you believing?
Expectations	What are your expectations from this / these beliefs. What are you expecting to happen?

Other global influences - your title here

Events, trends and obligations related to laws guaranteeing consumer right when buying goods or services.

Observations	Record your observations in here.
Beliefs	What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations? e.g. Consumers will rightly expect moral businesses to uphold their consumer right.
Expectations	What are your expectations from this / these beliefs. e.g. Processes to be established to ensure capability to meet updated laws.

Other

Other global events or trends

Observations	Record your observations in here
Beliefs	What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations?
Expectations	What are your business expectations from this / these beliefs.

Summary

Global factors and responsibilities influencing demand and business operations.

Observations	Record your observations in here
Beliefs	What do you believe are the implications for the industry segment from these observations?
Expectations	What are your business expectations from this / these beliefs.

Continue your assessment

Continue on to the Next section to start with an assessment of what opportunities and threats you can identify from your assessment. You can do this for each of your where to play arena(s), or return the Guide home to choose a different option.

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