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Contents: Part 1 : The strategic business planning framework -- the purpose of strategic business planning -- understanding the framework -- company purpose -- distinctive capability -- market/product/service -- identify -- people -- efficiency -- synthesizing the strategy -- completing the SBP framework -- evaluation -- Part 2 Strategic concepts -- degree of strategic change -- the role of the hypothesis -- simple strategy in a complex world -- Part 3 The strategic business planning process -- the reasoning and psychology of SBP -- building the leadership team -- implementation -- data collection -- financial analysis -- business analysis -- some useful techniques.