Strategy Formation & Effective Sales Marketing

by Ken Chen, former CEO Global Uni Chip

What is a strategy?

Strategy is a plan of change to achieve an objective (Dr. Morris Chang)

  • Different from normal/conventional operation
  • Horizontal Expansion: just changing the variable is not a strategy
  • Effectiveness?

Plan:

  • 5W + 1H
  • Review and Adjust
  • Effective and executable

Change:

  • Adaptive with Porter 5 forces
  • KPI
  • Favorable in customer trend

Objectives:

  • Need to be logical, tangible, measurable, trackable

To {What objective} by {a Change of Plan}

Taiwan Workforce Advantage: Confucian, Trade School (Engineering Talent)

Tactics (Physical) vs Strategy (Chemical)

一處御實,以免代勞

Kawasaki Microelectronic => culture does matter to certain business model

Foundry Business Model new forces: creative ic designer; cost structure is better while efficiency maybe slow a lil

Sun Tzu 7

Strategy Forming Process:

  1. Envision change, Start with market change
  2. Use porter 5 forces
  3. Use strategy pyramid to form knowledge
  4. Strategy statement

Effective Sales & Marketing

How to benefit Stakeholder: Investor and Employee Benefit
How to make customer sticky?

Product:

  1. Definition by Marketing dept (4P, 5Forces) Near and long terms
  2. Making by RD & Ops
  3. Go-to-market by Marketing & Sales dept

Sales:

  1. Funneling (Service Available Market)
  2. Red flags

Tools for Executive

Customer lotalty

  • Satisfaction Survey
  • Stickinness Ladder
  • Customer Value Management
  • Ideal Customer Profile (Select the right customer)

Value Produce

  • Value pricing position (1st, 2nd, commodity)
  • Strategy pyramid for value
  • Value selling process

Sales Actions

Tactic Actions

  • MOT (as mentality) Moment of the truth: 1. Listen the inner meaning of the customer; 2. Confirm; 3. Offer; 4. Follow Up (status Up-date)
  • PPM (as SOP) Plan: who should do what where what time EE, Pre-meetings, MOT
  • 三心二"易" What customer think, what competitor think, what my boss think => Change customer mindset and Change boss mindset

Strategic Actions

  • Enhancing loyalty ladder with ideal customer
  • Discipline on fixing "red flags"

Q&A

3 aspect of investment:
management, roadmap, financial planning

B2B: Sense of security
B2C: Senso of pride/social status

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYlGRnC7J8