Developing a strategic foundation

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Scenario: You have just been hired as the newly created director of strategic management for the medical robotics company (TMRC). You have now been in the position for 2 months.

The Company: TMRC is one of the leading medical device manufacturers in the world specializing in "robotic surgical equipment" and "specialized laser surgical devices" that enable surgeons to isolate and surgically remove malignancies and repair "hard-to-get-to" areas of the human body while minimizing further tissue and organ damage. TMRC is credited with revolutionizing operating room procedures and protocols while drastically reducing post operative infections and mortality rates.

For the past six months, TMRC has been struggling with what the company's future direction should be in their current marketplace. Additionally, the TMRC leadership team is looking at new market opportunities such as "should they consider acquiring another medical device company and expand TMRC's capabilities and presence in other medical device markets?". Furthermore, should TMRC consider moving into the global marketplace? All of these questions require the TMRC staff and executive management team to gather, identify, analyze, and evaluate lots of information they currently have in their "knowledge management" database as well as collect new market information.

The CEO and the TMRC board of directors want to put TMRC on a new course. In 2019 and 2020, TMRC successfully and profitably implemented numerous marketing, operations and logistics programs and customer driven initiatives that have enabled TMRC to not only meet but exceed their gross revenue/net profit projections for those years in spite of supply-chain issues resulting from the COVID pandemic. More importantly, TMRC is currently on course to exceed projections in 2022 and 2023. As a result of TMRC's financial performance, the executive management team of TMRC wants to position the company for future growth by executing an "initial public offering(IPO)" that will allow the company to not only to expand its operations domestically; but also position the company to enter the global marketplace with an initial proposed dual entry into Canada and Mexico by the end of 2024. Key to the successful IPO implementation and execution will be TMRC's strategic focus for the next 2-3 years along with TMRC's financial profile and the integration of TMRC's procedures and processes.

You are called into a meeting with the CEO. The CEO is very straight forward; he directs you to develop a recommended format and agenda for a TMRC "Strategic Planning Retreat" that will identify and address TMRC's "strategic focus" for 2023-2025 and beyond. The CEO wants to call TMRC's strategic focus: "Changing the future of medical care; one operating room at a time!" The CEO tells you that he wants a draft proposal from your team and wants to be able to look it over before his 7AM breakfast meeting with the executive management team the following day.

Action plan: You are now back in your office when you immediately call a meeting of your team to address the key focus points that need to be discussed and researched to develop a draft recommendation entitled "Strategic Planning Retreat Guide and a TRMC Strategic Focus for 2023-2025 and Beyond" for the CEO to review with the executive management team next week. After a brief discussion with your team on the CEO's meeting and input from various members of the team, you decide on the following courses-of-action for the team to focus on to develop your draft:

Explain in full detail and go in depth for frameworks, models, and key factors/ discussion points

1. Describe to the CEO and executive leadership team your team's concept for the "Company's Strategic Planning Retreat"; and detail who should attend; what timelines and discussion frameworks your team envisions using; and do you recommend using an outside facilitator to form a successful strategic plan.

2. Identify and describe "the best 2 models" your team could use to analyze the marketplace in order to "strategically position TMRC to gain, maintain, and sustain a strategic competitive advantage".

3. Describe to the CEO and executive leadership team the 2 key factors for TMRC to consider in "building a company that will last" and developing a successful vision.

4. Identify for the CEO the "key" discussion points that TMRC needs to address in developing a "Strategic Foundation".

5. You caution your team that we need to avoid leading the TMRC team down a "primrose-path filled with dark alley ways of bad strategy and inconsequential goals and objectives". Describe and identify "three key traps to avoid or pitfalls" that you want the TMRC's leadership team and the strategic planning facilitators to avoid at the retreat?

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