Welcome to the end of your SMB Management course! It has been a fun semester, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed our time together as a class and getting to know each of you personally.
Below you’ll see what is needed to build a strategic map that will take your now 10 million dollar company from good to great. As you’ll notice, the instructions are an infographic. Use it as your roadmap as you bring everything you have learned this semester together into one final strategy.
For the final, I’m requiring you to think differently, which you’ll need when you’re ready to build a great company. Not only am I having you figure out how to build a billion-dollar strategy, but I’m also pushing you to try a different approach.
You can’t just do another PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Canva Presentation like you did with your $10 million dollars strategic map. Instead, you need to try a different content medium, like video, audio, pictures, models, Legos, or anything your incredible mind comes up with. I don’t care, as long as you complete what is requested.
So good luck, but most importantly, enjoy yourself!
P.S. If you’re having a hard time seeing the infographic here is a slide deck 🙂 with the same information.
P.P.S. Here are all the strategy worksheets we did in class.
- VRIO
- Hedgehog
- PESTLE
- Competitor Analysis (there are five tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to provide you options, you only need to do one tab)
- Bottom-up Forecasting
- Top-down Forecasting
- SWOT/TOWS Matrix (full SWOT Analysis, but only select one TOWS quadrant)
- Entrepreneurial Strategy Compass (just select one quadrant for your position)
