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Tom Yardley, Executive Consultancy Service
HOW CAN YOU MATCH THE PERFORMANCE OF WARREN BUFFET?
Australia’s conglomerate business Wesfarmers has delivered 23% Total Shareholder returns over ten years matching the 23% of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway.
WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THEIR SUCCESS THAT THE REST OF US CAN LEARN FROM?
THE SECRET IS THERE IS NO SECRET! THEY ARE FOCUSED AND DISCIPLINED.
As businessmen they use strategic planning to **FOCUS** on shareholder financial objectives rather than managerial strategic or operating visions, and adopt uncompromising, owner value-focused approaches to capital management.
They use logical planning systems that encourage and reward managers to create and maintain an ‘owner mindset’, and the implementation of the plans is controlled by the centre through simple, rigorously managed targets,
Wesfarmers is among the over 2000 companies and other organisations that since 1980, have used the ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING to produce a set of practical corporate strategies that gained the enthusiastic agreement of the top management so that they set about the task of redirecting and rejuvenating their organisation with confidence and vigour. The Argenti system can help you produce the owner mindset in your enterprise.
ARGENTI CONTRIBUTES TO LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
Michael Chaney, Group Chief Executive of one of Australia's largest and most successful companies, said: -
"Wesfarmers started using the Argenti System at a group level and in its subsidiaries after the company went public in 1984. Since that time Wesfarmers has been one of the top performers in the Australian Stock Exchange and I am firmly of the view that the Argenti Planning System has played a key role in that result.
I have also been involved in implementing the System in half a dozen not-for-profit organisations with equal success.”
Michael Chaney, winner in surveys over 2002-2004, by Business Review Weekly to find Australia's most admired corporate leader.
You could do the same for your Company or Not for Profit Organisation using The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING is forged in the field of experience
No other system of strategic planning has been subjected to a more than forty year period of development, testing and continuous improvement by John Argenti. Working closely with clients Argenti has clarified the essence of what is really needed for success with strategic planning. The world network of Argenti Planning Coordinators (APC) consists of only experienced managers, professional planners, skilled facilitators and consultants. They are well able to help you get the most out of using the Argenti System.
When you become a client of the Argenti System you also have access to unlimited **F^R^E^E** email advice!
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING enables complete organizational renewal
The depth of real experience embodied in the Argenti System can enable a quantum leap forward in understanding the real drivers of success for your organisation, and the actions needed to ensure the enterprise is able to anticipate and respond to significant changes in the environment. Such challenging changes assail organisations of all types in today’s highly uncertain, insecure, and rapidly changing world. Argenti can help you build the capability to completely renew your organisation, and create order and sense out of the seeming chaos around and sometimes within your organisation!
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING is used all round the world, in a great variety of cultural contexts
No other system of strategic planning has been employed in so many different cultural settings. Argenti has been introduced into organisations in all these many different places!
Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Canada, Cyprus,Finland, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Argenti takes into account the fundamental requirements of people working in organisations regardless of cultural background. It is a system that induces and enhances people’s ability to trust each other and the organisation, because it systematically gets the management team to address with real honesty, the issues that must be faced if the organisation is to thrive, not just survive.
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
is not only logically sound; it is grounded in the reality of how people work together in the workplace, and so improves management team morale.
The Argenti System is not only logically sound in the flow of the process through essential stages, it is psychologically sound in addressing the real need of people to participate in decisions affecting their work life, and in meeting their need for clarity of purpose and expectations.
ARGENTI CONTRIBUTES TO IMPROVED MORALE
Michael Chaney again
”I think the most powerful aspects of the System are its logical, structured approach to planning and the way it clearly defines such things as objectives, strategies, strengths and opportunities; things which often get confused in planning exercises. This leads participants in this planning process to think logically about issues and to develop appropriate strategies for going forward. In addition, by bringing a number of levels of management into the planning system, the process fosters a real sense of ownership and has a highly positive effect on morale
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
is used in all kinds of organisations
No other system of strategic planning has been effectively used in so many different kinds of organisation both profit making companies and various not-for-profit organisations. A sampling of industries and enterprise types include the following.
Accountants, Bookshops, Shipbuilders, TV stations, Oil exploration and production, Banks and Insurance, Computer companies , Engineering firms, Conglomerates, Publishers, Research laboratories , Retail stores, Emergency Services, Primary producer marketing organisations, Schools, Utilities, Government departments, Local governments, Airlines, Social welfare agencies , Cooperatives, Agricultural societies, Museums, Housing authorities, Industry associations, Education authorities, Universities, Arts and Cultural organisations, Consulting firms, Heavy and high tech manufacturing
Because the Argenti System focuses on the really important issues that can make or break the future of an organisation it has to deal with the questions that face all types of organisation. These include the fundamental raison d’être, the principles that guide the conduct of the organisation, the enduring capabilities of the organisation, its responsiveness to changes in its environment, and mechanisms for monitoring performance and correcting deviations from the chosen strategic courses of action. All organisations have these things. It is a question of whether they have been consciously selected or designed on the basis of a true appreciation of the situation of the organisation, or processes of busyness and drift.
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
is the all-in-one
* management-team-building,
* organization-aim-setting,
* corporate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats-appraising,
* strategy-selecting
* strategic plan-evaluating and implementing
system of CEO guidance, planning assistance, and knowledge base that delivers successful strategic plans.
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING EXPERIENCE has three key components, and follows five main stages. It is supported by unlimited free email advice during and after the process. It can be supported by an experienced facilitator using a process tailored to your particular situation
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
FIVE MAIN STAGES
Stage 1 THE START
Form the Planning Team. All the practical details are taken care of for you.
Stage 2 CORPORATE AIMS This is the key to focus
Corporate Purpose
Setting Targets
Making Forecasts
Calculating the Gap
Stage 3 SELECT SWOTs This is the key to matching your capabilites to the challenges of the real world your organisation operates in.
Select the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Stage 4 THE STRATEGIES
List Alternative Strategies
Select the Strategies
Stage 5 COMPLETING THE PLANS This is where the rubber meets the road
Evaluate
Get approval
Action Plans
Monitor
The FIVE MAIN STAGES of the ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING
represent a very practical and down-to-earth process for digging out the really important unresolved issues facing your organisation, and devising realistic and imaginative strategies for dealing with them. These issues are so important to the future of the organisation Argenti refers to them as the ‘elephant issues’, and the strategic planning process as an ‘elephant hunt’.
Follow the stage-by-stage process of The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING, using the complete set of Argenti strategic planning tools, including Argenti Planning Assistance, and unrivalled Knowledge Base to help it along and watch the results flow.
Like to discuss how Argenti can help your organisation?
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No elaborate mathematical or financial modeling skills are needed (although Argenti Planning is compatible with employment of any number of financial modeling and business planning software applications when you come to the detailed number crunching that may be required in detailing the budgets and project plans that flow from the strategic plan in larger and more complex enterprises, anything you care to throw at it if you are more technically inclined.)
No MBA level planning and policy expertise is required - no expensive technical or specialist strategy consultants are necessary.
The complete set of Argenti System tools and templates make it easy to build, communicate, and manage your strategic plan effectively.
Argenti does all that for you.
There is nothing nearly as complete as the Argenti total corporate strategic planning approach.
You supply the motivation to work the system and the system will work for you. You just plan your business or organisation and thrive, in a reasonable amount of time, at a reasonable price.
Already keen to get on with it?
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Who might benefit from using
The ARGENTI SYSTEM of STRATEGIC PLANNING?
Organisations likely to get the most out of the Argenti system of strategic planning, are those that haven’t engaged in systematic strategic planning before, and yet their situations require it, and those who have tried another approach and are dissatisfied with it for various reasons.
Certain organisations benefit more than others.
Firms in the entrepreneurial to functional transition, and not for profits in the “founding missionary’ to ‘getting organised’ stage
Organisations contemplating taking the organisation to the next level after a few years of relative success in the sense of being among the ‘lucky’ 20% of businesses that survives the first five years. This often means a business feeling the strain of growth or the ‘problems of success’, such as a business about to cross the threshold from Small-Small Business or Micro Business to SME level.
How do you know you are approaching this point?
The relatively young entrepreneurial startup reaches a point where the founding entrepreneur or small group of founding partners feel the strain of managing all aspects of the business themselves. At this point they feel the need to consider employing specialist or supervisory staff that work between themselves and the operating staff of the business or organisation. This is a critical transition point. The owner/entrepreneur or founder can no longer have a sense of concrete and active involvement in all the day to day decision making of the organisation, and has to begin systematically delegating to and trusting employees to act on their behalf. This usually entails systematically documenting policies and processes that previously may have been carried in the heads of the founder(s) or ad hoc notes and relatively unorganized memoranda.
If you’ve started doodling with organisation charts, and having discussions about the need for someone to be employed to do work you don’t like or feel out of your depth with, or simply because there is too much of it, you may be entering this transition.
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