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V3 Strategic Business Planning is an “organic” process entrepreneurs employ to achieve highly effective results. The type of results you can expect to see include:

• Multiplication of the entrepreneur and other knowledge workers, not simply addition
• Organic growth, organic in that the organization systematically progresses from a company where its all about things being done right (management), to a company where the right things are being done (leadership.)
• Gravity or pull marketing techniques replace expensive push style marketing
• A movement of focus from internal quantification, (it is all about how and what we do) to perceptive qualification outside the organism, (it is all about what is going on in our customers world.)
• Alignment of individual objectives to the entrepreneurs corporate objectives and assignment of metrics and measurements to assure alignment takes place
• Knowledge workers developing ideas and strategies, which are in the context of the strategic business plan
• Expands the envelop of each knowledge worker to include the strategic objective
• Magnifies the strategies, tactics and planning process that will bring the greatest amount of growth with the lowest cost of entry

Stages of Growth

Most companies typically go through three phases of growth:

 

The Technician Stage - Technicians are about management, the owner “owns” his job, (typically they achieve sales of up to ten million per year.)

 

Although this is the common growth process it is not the most desirable. Instead of going through the brutal technician stage, a young company should skip right to the strategic stage. However most companies start out in the technician stage and attempt to jump directly to the structured stage. This order of development keeps small companies small because they never receive the advantages of the strategic stage where talent is developed, including the entrepreneur, and affordable organic growth can take place. As the company grows it should move toward the Structured stage as company disciplines increase and knowledge workers become affordable.

 

Growth Stages at a Glance

Technician Stage	Strategic Stage	Structured Stage
Owners start as technicians Restricted by their own personal leadership capacity Use brute force to get things done right Often becoming their own worst taskmaster. Grow to their leadership lid	Strategic planning is used to determine what the "right things" are Multiplies the founders passions and motivations Develops company talent Employs organic growth methods Develops gravity style marketing techniques A strategic plan assures you are working on the right things for the right reasons	Builds on the strategic stage through implementation of process, procedure and methodology Very costly Requires high levels of discipline not found in smaller companies Requires specialized knowledge workers Usually unsustainable if not proceeded by the strategic stage of growth Successfully implemented by larger companies

How the V3 Strategic Business Planning Process Works