Business Strategy

Complete PowerPoint template and toolkit for

high-quality, comprehensive strategy presentations

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on proven frameworks from projects with Fortune 500 best-practice slide-layouts and frameworks and tips, as well
McKinsey, BCG, and Bain clients supporting Excel models as a helpful checklist

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Objectives of this template

The Business Strategy template includes a fully structured storyline complete with ready-to-use slides, as well as frameworks,
tools, tutorials, real-life examples, and best practices to help you:

Create and present a complete, cohesive, well-structured strategy

Analyze your current position and starting point to build your future strategy on incl. current market dynamics, customer segments,
customer behavior, internal performance and more

Formulate your organization’s purpose and vision in clear, concise formats

Formulate your organization’s strategic choices and priorities that will guide everything from strategic initiatives to day-to-day decision
making

Construct tangible, measurable, specific goals for your organization at all levels from overarching vision to individual business units,
teams, and time frames

Design specific strategic initiatives linked to measurable goals that align with your organization’s strategic choices

Understand core enablers and foundational elements in your organization and analyze your status quo and what must be done to
support and grow these to achieve your strategic goals

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The template is centered around the best-practice business strategy
‘house’ as used by McKinsey, BCG, and Bain

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• Purpose: what is our reason-for-being?
Aspiration • Vision: where do want to be in 2-3-5-10 years? Purpose and vision

• Where do we want to play? What are our must-win battles? 2

Strategic • Set of choices on what to do and not do that guide day-to-
Must-win Must-win Must-win
choices battle battle battle
day decision making

3
• How can we win these battles?
Strategic • Specific initiatives and actions that are designed to achieve Strategic Strategic Strategic Strategic
initiatives vision and goals within strategic choices initiative initiative initiative initiative
• Linked to tangible, specific, measurable goals and KPIs

• What do we need to have in place to move forward on our 4 Enabler, e.g. technology
strategic initiatives?
Enablers • Supportive actions or capabilities that are prerequisites for
accomplishing initiatives Enabler

• What is the foundation allowing us to achieve everything 5

Foundation else? Foundation e.g. culture, people, structure
• How do we nurture and grow this foundation?

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The ‘strategy house’ is embedded in a full storyline to create a
complete business strategy presentation

Overview of full business strategy storyline:

Summary Starting point Strategy Roadmap

Summarize main Outline point of Detail

Detail
all elements
all elements
of future
of future
strategy
strategy Outline roadmap to
takeaways: departure: systematically:
systematically implement strategy:

• Overall market • Market context 1 Purpose and vision • Full implementation

context • Market dynamics 2 Must-win battles/strategic pillars plan/roadmap
• Competitive and forecasts • Grow the core • Requirements
position • Current competitive • Reinvent the core • Key success factors
• Strategic pillars and financial • New business/new growth engines
• Immediate next
• Strategic initiatives situation 3 Strategic initiatives steps
• Financial outlook • Strategic resilience 4 Enablers

• Roadmap 5 Foundation

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This template includes everything you need to create your own
high-quality, well-structured, comprehensive strategy presentation

Included with this template:

Fully editable slides with best-practice

layouts

Complete storyline based on a proven

and tested frameworks

Helpful checklist

Four full real-life examples for

inspiration and guidance

Free support from our senior ex-

277 PowerPoint slides McKinsey, BCG and Bain consultants

1 Excel sheet Free access to future updates

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The template is structured in five main parts, as well as an
accompanying Excel file

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Guide to how you can Full, structured Four full-length, Common consulting Best practices for
best use this template strategy template real client cases frameworks and tools creating presentations

See more details of each section in following pages

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Part 1: A short guide to help you utilize the template in the best way

A short introduction to the Business Strategy template and a guide to using the
template most productively:

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Part 2: The full strategy template with structured sections and
multiple versions of slides for you to choose from

110 fully editable template slides in a complete and structured storyline with action titles, ready-to-use graphs,
suggested formatting and more:

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Part 3: Four full-length, real client cases for you to draw
inspiration from and see a strategy presentation ‘in action’

Real-life sanitized case example #1 (21 slides) Real-life sanitized case example #3 (44 slides)
Growth strategy summary for a European retail company Specific country strategy for multi-national T&L player

Real-life sanitized case example #2 (38 slides) Real-life sanitized case example #4 (30 slides)
Full strategy overview for a US financial institution Digital strategy for global telco company

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Part 4: A selection of common frameworks used in management
consulting for you to include in your presentation if needed

Common management consulting frameworks that Frameworks included:

are helpful when creating a strategy:
• Profitability framework
• McKinsey’s 7S Model

• BCG Growth-Share Matrix

• GE/McKinsey Matrix

• McKinsey’s Three Horizons of Growth

• McKinsey’s Seven Degrees of Freedom for Growth

• BCG’s Growth/Transformation framework

• Business Model Canvas

• Issue tree

• Objective, scope, and advantage

• Michael Porter’s five criteria for a good strategy

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Part 5: Best practices and helpful checklists for presentation
writing as taught in top-tier firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain

Checklists developed by former McKinsey and BCG Best practice tips to ensure your presentation is
consultants to ensure all details are in order: top-level quality:

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In addition, the template includes a fully editable Excel sheet to
support your implementation plan and roadmap

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All layouts, fonts, colors are 100% editable

Each template comes with a thorough guide on how to

customize it in terms of company colors, logos, fonts etc.

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Why use a Slideworks template?

Our Slideworks templates and playbooks make it possible for you to…

…decrease the time you spend structuring a storyline or creating a nice layout.

…leverage best-practice frameworks to address business critical problems.

…allow you to create stellar presentations that match your company style, fonts, and colors
with none of the hassle.

With our PowerPoint and Excel templates you get best-practice storylines, slide layouts, and presentation
checklists all created and tested by some of the top management consultants.

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