The process of formulating your business strategy should help clarify the real challenges and opportunities that your organisation faces then force you to make some tough decisions about what you are going to do about them and, more importantly, what you are not going to do.
In principle, what you want to do is use your strengths to pursue the best opportunities and solve the biggest challenges. This may appear simple enough, but in practice it is often difficult to deliver. This is where we can help you.
We take a pragmatic approach that cuts through the mystique. We apply simple, powerful principles that have been field tested and proven to work so that you don’t create a bad strategy.
We help you to take a critical look at your situation to create a well-designed, coherent strategy that aligns and integrates your policies and actions.
We can do this because we use evidence-based, scientific principles to go much deeper than the polar ‘cookie cutter’ approach to strategy that creates bland statements of mission, vision, values and goals. We also encourage you to confront issues rather than taking the easy route of avoiding conflict by using the principles and language of positive thinking.
For example, we helped a government ministry to break out from a 2 year exercise that had generated volumes of reports but little in the way of results. Using a 2 day facilitated workshop, we helped them produce the deliverables they wanted: a brief, clear statement of purpose; a description of their vision and values, and a clear set of goals together with an outline strategy.
In another case, we helped a successful family business develop a new strategy for their group of 30 subsidiaries to increase their profit by a factor of 10 to position them for attracting external equity investors.
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