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What are the Strengths of Strategic Analysis

1. Strategic analysis allows you to have clarity of the internal positive attributes
of the organization that are under control.
2. It helps identify strength of both internal as well as external resources, such
that it leads to an increasing competitive advantage.
3. It offers you the internal components that add value or offer a competitive
advantage to your business.

2. Weaknesses of Strategic Analysis

1. Strategic analysis can generate too many ideas, but doesn’t help to choose
which one is the best.
2. Sometimes too much time is spent on existential problem solving, such that
there is little or no time left for innovating new products or making service
level changes at the organizational level.

3. Different Levels of Strategic Analysis

1. Functional Level of Strategic Analysis: lowest level of decision making. They
focus on activities within and between different functions, aimed at improving
the efficiency of the overall business. These strategies are focused on
particular functions and groups.
2. Business Level Strategic Analysis: At the median level of strategy are
business-level decisions. The business-level strategy focuses on market
position to help the company gain a competitive advantage in its own industry
or other industries.
3. Corporate Level of Strategic Analysis: At the highest level, corporate
strategy involves high-level strategic decisions that will help a company
sustain a competitive advantage and remain profitable in the foreseeable
future. 

4. Common Pitfalls in Current State Analysis

a. We’re wasting time – Skip Current State Analysis Entirely
b. Uncontrolled Venting of Current State Issues
c. It’s Documented This Way, But Nobody Does It That Way
d. Upstream And Downstream – Not Understanding Integrations
e. We Don’t Have Issues – You Just Need More Training

5. Benefits of completing a current state analysis

If you spend time completing your current state analysis, this will help you to form
the solution context and a baseline to measure improvements.

6. Common Themes Against The Current State Analysis

a. A waste of time on studying what will be discarded anyway.
 b. Deficit of project time to spend on the current state analysis
c. Old thinking should be discarded to give way to a fresh, agile, approach

7. Set of Starting Business Architecture Principles

a. Clear Business Scope
b. Contextually driven
c. Comprehensive Domains
d. Associate, do not Integrate
e. Organization Structure is Just a Domain
f. Elegant Models
g. Notation Agnostic
h. Semantically Consistent
i. Journey, not a Destination

8. State the Model of a Business Architecture

The purpose of any business (or any organization) is to deliver outcomes of value
for the core stakeholders of the business.  It has to strive to more than satisfy the
product or service recipients, the owners, the staff, and even society.  It has to really
understand their essential needs — stated or not — and provide a superior
experience across multiple channels.  It has to do this while keeping a healthy
relationship with all other external stakeholders, like various suppliers, regulatory
bodies, and communities (to name a few).  The business is first and foremost
defined by its success in its relationships with external parties.  Everything else
should be aimed at achieving the desired outcomes at the border between your
organization and those in your ecosystem.  Getting everything right to make this
happen is a monumental task, with a lot of moving parts that must come together to
form a total result.