077 a strategy focused planning system beyond traditional budgeting -- by dr james a robertson preng
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Strategic change focuses on the essence of the business and how it thrives and undertakes activities directed at achieving lasting competitive advantage, an approach to budgeting is presented that seeks to bring the fundamentals of strategic analysis and design into the budgeting process See also http://www.James-A-Robertson-and-Associates.com/TRANSCRIPT
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A strategy focused planning system beyondtraditional budgeting
www.JamesARobertson.com
Dr James Robertson PrEng
Africa Financial Controllers Conference25 and 26th May 2009
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Building bridges
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Engineers do NOT design bridges to stand up
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4Engineer against failure
They design them NOT to fall down
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How a client saw it (after a successful project outcome)
A critical principle for successEngineer against failure
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6Angus Struan Robertson
Vision
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Experiencing failure
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Experiencing failure
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Experiencing failure
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Epidemic
90% of strategic plans fail to deliver
Corporate budgeting is seldom if ever strategically aligned
How do we achieve strategic outcomes?
What is the role of finance?
How do we budget strategically?
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Governance = Care!
Mervyn King
Strategic governance
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Success = getting to "NOT failure"
There is a need for a new approach
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What is NOT an engineering approach?
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What is NOT an engineering approach?
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What is NOT an engineering approach?
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What is NOT an engineering approach?
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ContextEssential / critical questions
If one asks the wrong questions one will get the wrong answers
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What is strategy?
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Strategy
Doing the right things
Professor Malcolm McDonald
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Tactics
Doing things right
Professor Malcolm McDonald
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The relationship between strategy and tactics
Strategy -- doing the right things
Professor Malcolm McDonald
Tac
tics
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rig
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Thrive
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The relationship between strategy and tactics
Professor Malcolm McDonald
Survive
Strategy -- doing the right things
Tac
tics
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thin
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rig
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The relationship between strategy and tactics
Professor Malcolm McDonald
Die
Strategy -- doing the right things
Tac
tics
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thin
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rig
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The relationship between strategy and tactics
Professor Malcolm McDonald
Die slowly
Die fast
Strategy -- doing the right things
Tac
tics
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thin
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rig
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The relationship between strategy and tactics
Professor Malcolm McDonald
SurviveDie slowly
Die fast
Thrive
Strategy -- doing the right things
Tac
tics
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thin
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rig
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The essence of strategy is integration - the ability to see in a complex holistic way
The essence of strategyCreate Competitive Advantage
Michael E Porter: Global Competitive Strategy : 9 June 2003
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ProductUserMarketTechnology / Know-HowProduction Capacity or Production CapabilitySales / Marketing MethodDistributionNatural ResourcesSize / GrowthProfit
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Robert states that every organization should have ONLY ONE of these as driving force, the others are managed within the context of the strategic driving force
Michel Robert on strategic driving force
Michel Robert
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Core economic driver
Core human resource driver
Core market differentiator / value proposition / sales or marketing method
Core customer / market / user
Core asset / product / natural resource / size / growth
Core technology / capability / know-how / distribution
Essential reason the organisation exists (generally NOT profit)
Core values
Other
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Essential components of strategy
Identify the critical factors using relative weight contribution to corporate value creation
Compare: Pick 'n Pay Edgars Woolworths
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What is strategy?
The essence of why an organization exists and how it thrives
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The time dependency of strategy
Not a forecast
Forecast
Today + n Years
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Professor Malcolm McDonald
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The time dependency of strategy
Not an objective
Objective
Today + n Years
Professor Malcolm McDonald
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The time dependency of strategy
Strategic plan -- the path to competitive advantage -- plan I.T. for the future
Today
A realistic trajectory of continuous improvement
within business constraints + n Years
Professor Malcolm McDonald
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The trajectory from good to great
Gilette case study
“From Good to Great” by Jim Collins page 24
1986Hostile takeover thwarted
1991Mockler retires
1996End Study
1975Colman Mockler Appointed CEO
US$14.92
Gillette
General US Stock Market
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60's Production70's Sales80's FinanceThe 90's and 2000's
Excess supplySingle division cannot solveA boom is unlikely!!
Strategic Issues are Vital
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Historical Differentiators
Implies a Holistic, Integrated Business Approach Including Effective I.T.
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Market Focused Strategy
Utilization of the Human Resource
Effective Management Decision Making
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Requires Information To Make The Right Decisions
World Competitiveness Report; McDonald & Others
THE KEY DIFFERENTIATORS IN 2000 AND BEYONDCompetitive Advantage
Differentiation
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Increased competitiveness
Increased market share and resulting turnover
Increased profit margins
Increased earnings
Increased shareholder value
etc
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Beneficial business impactMeasures of strategic delivery
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Experienced / defined by people
Intuitive / gut feel
Transaction = exchange of value between recipient and provider
NOT money / cash / finance
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Value
Money = medium of exchange / proxy / surrogate for value
= MEANS OF MEASUREMENT
therefore easy to measure
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Money is medium of exchangeConvert value into money to finance I.T. investment
Economic value is essential component of value propositionDerived from other sources of value
The business must use I.T. as a means to create economic value to finance the I.T. investment
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Economic value
Find ways to measure the value that REALLY generates money
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Add valueto customer who is willing to pay
Materially and sustainably reduce operating costsAND does NOT destroy value in another way (e.g. morale or loyalty)
Enable the creation of a product or service that currently does not existfor a customer who is willing to pay
Defend, extend or create competitive advantagefor a customer who is willing to pay
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Developing robust strategic budgetWhat is required for a valuable outcome
Can you relate your requirement to a customer?
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Design your budget for the future - NOT the past
Strategic plans must be future focused
The time dependency of strategyafter Professor Malcolm McDonald
Forecast
Today + n Years
Tactics Objective
Projects are the mechanism whereby an organization brings about change towards the objective -- such projects MAY include information technology investments Strategic Plan
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Analysis of Strategic Environment, Context, Requirements, Benefits, Value, etc
Strategic Gap Analysis
Strategic Design
Strategic Governance Framework
Strategic Action Plan
Strategic Project Management
Strategic Plan Business Outcome Auditing, Monitoring, Performance Measurement and Incentives
Continuous Strategic Improvement
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Analysis and design for doable plansHow to determine the right things?
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Enhance / create right things
All factors that impact significantly on the business
The critical factors = the right factors = the strategic factors
Prioritised and quantified to support decision making
Ask the "right questions" in order to obtain the "right" answers
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Analysis -- determine the right and wrong things
Reduce / eliminate wrong things
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Strategic SnapShots©
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Comprehensive strategic capabilityStructured analysis of strategic driversClearly defined and quantified strategic objectives (value)Structured analysis of strategic context (strategic map)Comprehensive plansEffective and reliable implementation that does NOT failCulture of continuous strategic improvementI.T. projects are a natural outflow of the plans
Commitment to, and plans for, comprehensive strategic capabilityCreating strategic context together with defining I.T. projects
No structured strategic analysis, design and implementation capabilityI.T. projects must do the best they can to fit strategically
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What follows is relevant to all of these scenarios
Recommended
"gut feel"
Strategic Scenarios
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Different views of the mountain
Impossible!!
Easy!!
Hard but we will make it!
A few challenges but nothing insurmountable!
x Objective
What a deep gorge!
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Determining the critical components
Everyone sees the problem and the solution differently
ExecutiveProductionOperationsMarketingFinanceetc
Strategic clarity provides focusDifferent perspectives remain valid and vital
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Impossible!!
Easy!!
Hard but we will make it!
A few challenges but nothing insurmountable!
x Objective
What a deep gorge!
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What will be done?
How well are we doing it already?
Accountability
Timeline
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Evaluation of requirements
Gap Analysis -- Projects / Activities / Components
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Resources (costs and constraints)
Risks
Customer impact
What value and how -- economics
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Gap Analysis -- Projects / Activities / Components
Forecast
Today + n Years
Projects and activities to close
the gapMAY include I.T.
Objective
Plan and Solution = outcome of analysis and design process
Executive management is often the most serious constraint-- ask the RIGHT questions-- what is REALLY required?
Evaluation of requirements
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Identify your core strategic drivers and then strengthen them
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Align your budget with the essence of why the organization exists and how it thrives -- strategy
Plan for future strategic growth
Design against failure in order to succeed
Structured strategic analysis and design
Structured strategic plans
Structured strategic budgets
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Summing up
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What is your single most important insight from this presentation?
What is the single most practical action that you can take tomorrow to apply I.T. more effectively?
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Call to action
New insight that does not result in action within 48 hours is wasted
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Design budgets NOT to fail
Psalm 136:5 "To Him who by wisdom made the heavens, for His mercy endures forever;"
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[email protected] -- 083-251-6644Finding the missing pieces of your I.T. and strategy puzzles
Acknowlegement and dedication
Clients, associates and staff
Father and mother Angus and Thelma
Children Alexandra and Struan
Fiona, Sandie, Ingrid, Teresa, Sandra, Helena, Julie and Maria
To the glory of the Eternal Creator
Questions?