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STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SMALL BUSINESS INSTITUTES IN POLAND Sponsored by The U.S. Agency for International Development Developed by Solidarity Economic Foundation Gdafisk, Poland Polish American Enterprise Institute Poznani, Poland Center on Education and Training for Employment The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SMALL BUSINESS INSTITUTES IN POLAND Randy Rollinson Walery Lach Zdzislaw Krajewski M. Catherine Ashmore Solidarnog6 Economic Foundation Gdaisk, Poland and Centec on Education and Training for Employment The Ohio State University 1900 Kenny Road Columbus, Ohio 43210-1090 1993 These materials were developed as a product of the Entrepreneurship Institute Project in Poland, funded under the U.S. AID grant EUR-0029-G-00-1040-00. o Copyright by the Center on Education and Training for Employment, The Ohio State University, 1993 and the Center for Enterprise Development. No part of this book can be replicated or used without prior written permission of the Center on Education and Training for Employment. ii FOREWORD The United States Agency for International Development (U.S.AID) sponsored this project as part of the U.S.Congress initiative entitled Secure Eastern European Democracy (SEED Ac:). This project is one of a number of university-based initiatives to provide education for university faculty in emerging countries about business management and economics in support of the newly established market economy. Since June of 1991, the International Enterprise Academy at The Ohio State University has worked cooperatively with the Solidarity Economic Foundation in Gdaiisk, Poland, to facilitate the creation of three Polish-American Enterprise Institutes in connection with the universities in Bialystok, Poznaii and Rzesz6w. In each site two coordinators and fifteen or more faculty members have established courses for business owners in Entrepreneurship,Marketing, Management,Finance,Strategic Planning,and Export-Import. In addition, we developed skills among the faculty for business advising in these areas and developed case studies of Polish entrepreneurs. The development of the six curriculum products took place over a two-year period and were the cooperative efforts of the coordinators from the Polish Institutes and the faculty from various American Universities. We are indebted to the following people for their dedication, patience and understanding in addition to their outstanding expertise in the area. ENTREPRENEURSHIP Vicky Rash, The Ohio State University Andrzej Jurgilewicz, The Bialystok Business School MARKETING Gerald Hills, The University of Illinois at Chicago Walery Lach, Poznahi Academy of Economics MANAGEMENT Eugene Gomolka, The University of Dayton Adam G6ral, The Maria-Sklodowska University in Rzesz6w FINANCE Lynn Neeley, Northern Illinois University Boguslaw Plawgo, The Bialystok Business School STRATEGIC PLANNING Randy Rollinson, The University of Illinois at Chicago Zdzislaw Krajewski and Bogdan Sojkin, Poznafi Academy of Economics iii EXPORT-IMPORT Martha Cooper, The Ohio State University Krzysztof Kaszuba, Rzesz6w Polytechnic BUSINESS ADVISING Rodney Teiminello, The Ohio State University Krzysztof Kaszuba, Rzesz6w Polytechnic CASE STUDIES OF POLISH ENTREPRENEURS Lisa Mazzei, The Ohio State University Alicja Zajgczkowska and Alicja Unterschuetz of the Solidarity Economic Foundation In addition, we are deeply indebted to our counterpart staff at the Solidarity Econornc Foundation: Miroslaw Mironowicz, Malgorzata Balkowska, Alicja 7aj~czkowska, Alicja Unterschuetz, Marcin Flisykowski and Hanna Litka. They contributed so much to the adaptation and translation of materials into Polish. The editors of these six curriculum products deserve special thanks for two years of attention to detail and schedules that everyone thought was impossible. Both Piotr Koryfiski and Elibieta Jacowicz have masters degrees in economics from the University of Gdaisk in Poland. Since the beginning of this project, they have worked at The Ohio State University in an effort to make these curriculum products appropriate for use in their country. We also thank the secretaries in both countries and others who worked hard on these six very ambitious curriculum projects. At The Ohio State University we especially want to thank Barbara Rahe, Jeanne Thomas, Janet Ray, and Kathy Summerfield. In Poland, we want to thank Dagmara Topolewicz, Ewa Dratwa, Malgorzata Tyburczy, Edyta Rusin and Dorota Malaszkiewicz. Because these curriculum products include many copyrighted materials that we have obtained limited permission to use for this project, this product may not be published or used for other purposes without express permission from The Center on Education and Training for Employment at The Ohio State University. We believe that these materials will provide long-term benefits to the faculty for whom they were designed and the business owners who will participate in their courses. We hope that these American models of business training will make a difference in the communities where they are used and impact on their success in a market economy. M. Catherine Ashmore Director, International Enterprise Academy iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to the primary author, Mr. Randy Rollinson, University of Illinois at Chicago, for development of this teaching outline for use in the Enterprise Institutes in Poland. He was assisted by Walery Lach, Zdzislaw Krajewski, and M. Catherine Ashmore, as the materials were assembled in 1991 - 1993. We are also indebted to the publishers or authors who gave permission to use selected portions of their copyrighted materials. They include: " BPI Irwin " GPG Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. * JSBM * Small Business Forum * South Western Publishiiig Co. * The Futurist " Upstart Publishing Company, Inc. v STRATEGIC PLANNING MODULE Page UNIT 1: Strategic Planning (Management) Overview ................... 1 UNIT 2: Conduct a SWOT Analysis and Prioritize Critical Planning ......... 136 UNIT 3: Understand the Concept of Distinctive Competency, Prepare a Vision Statement, Conceptualize and Draft a Strategic Posture.. ............................ ......... 241 UNIT 4: Write Goal Statements, Key Result Areas (KRAs) and Objectives ......................................... 304 UNIT 5: Determine Strategies and Action Plans ...................... 333 UNIT 6: Draft and Implement the Plan and Develop a Management Control System .................................. 358 vi STRATEGIC PLANNING MODULE Basic Expectations This entire module is built around the fundamental premise that each person enrolling in the module will prepare a strategic plan for either the entire organizational, one strategic business unit or one function of the firm over the course of the six units. To maximize the probability that participants will achieve this objective the module is best structured as follows: Unit 1 At the completion of Unit 1 participants should form a planning team and complete Worksheet 1 Unit 2 At the completion of Unit 2 the planning team should complete Worksheet 2 Unit 3 At the completion of Unit 3 the planning team should complete Worksheet 3 Unit 4 At the completion of Unit 4 the planning team should complete Worksheet 4 Unit 5 At the completion of Unit 5 the planning team should complete Worksheet 5 Unit 6 Ask each participant to give a 5-10 minute presentation on their plan. Ask them to focus on the one or two most important objectives. Following the presentation ask the class to critique the presentation. At the completion of Unit 6 ask each planning team to prepare a written strategic plan. Suggest they follow the outline which was given out in Unit 1. Tell them to turn in the plan within one month to the Institute for an in depth review of the document. Following review of the plan by the faculty meet with the participant (or planning team) to give them individualized feedback on what they can do to strengthen the plan. vii Competencies Upon completion of this program participants will: * understand the essential elements of the strategic management model " understand the difference between socialist and free-market planning * understand the difference between feasibility studies, business planning and strategic planning " be able to describe the steps involved in preparing an overall strategic plan for a small business * appreciate the critical importance of getting organized to plan " be able to initiate a systematic analysis of their firms internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats • be able to prioritize the critical issues the firm should focus its planning efforts on " be able to define their firms distinctive competency * be able to write a vision statement for their firm • be able to define their products and/or services " be able to define their target market(s) * be able to define the geographic boundaries they will primarily serve • be able to define their strategic posture • be able to write goal statements " be able to define key result areas for each goal statement " be able to write measurable and quantifiable objectives for each KRA * be able to prepare strategy statements for each objective * be able to apply criteria for evaluating strategies * be able to prepare action plans for each strategy * be able to prepare a first draft of their firms strategic plan * be able to delegate responsibility for implementing sections of the plan * be able to design a basic management control system " be able to draft a process for keeping the plan up-to-date " be able to understand the basic elements involved in developing a board of directors viii STRATEGIC PLANNING (MAANAGEMENT) OVERVIEW