Strategy Consulting

Creating and Testing Your Strategy

How It Works

A robust, logical and clear strategy enables you to harness the power of your great culture and effective leadership team to achieve the outcomes you want.

A good strategy will have a well defined partnering of “what” and “how” choices with mapped core capabilities and management systems. It will be the way you believe you are most likely to achieve the aspirational goal that solves the challenges you are facing.

Strategy is essentially a problem solving and learning tool, that can be summarised in 5 key steps:

Define the problem you need to solve
Explore possible options to solve the problem
Choose the best option
Continuously monitor the assumptions behind your strategic choice
Use these learnings to adjust and amend your choice as needed

Aside from giving you the best chance of success, a strategy creates clarity and quicker decision-making throughout the organisation. Not having a strategy ultimately leads to chaos and confusion, wasted effort and declining motivation.

Strategy does not need to be hard, long winded, complicated or rigid. It’s actually an agile process where you make a clear set of choices, decide what needs to be true for these choices to lead to achieving your goal, and thereby solving the problem, and then monitor whether the strategy is working.

How do I help?

I facilitate your strategy offsite for you, guiding you and your team through the process to create or tweak your strategy.

If you want to increase the strategic thinking of your leadership teams, or whole organisation, I offer coaching, workshops and learning programs.

If you already have a strategy and you want to test its robustness, then I offer a short workshop to help with this rather than create it from scratch.

As always, I use tried and tested methods such as Playing to Win and Blue Ocean Strategy (Certified Practitioner)

If that sounds like a way you want to work to develop, or road test, your strategy then let’s have a discovery call.

Consulting OUTCOMES

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A focussed, simple, clear strategy

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A monitoring system to test, learn and stay agile with your strategy

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Confidence for the executive team to do their strategic planning in the future

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Improved strategic clarity for all employees

CASE STUDIES

This global professional services firm wanted to create a strategic advantage in a competitive market following a merger. Working with the different business unit partners I took them through a strategic planning process that helped them see how to position their offering, their value chain and the resulting internal changes they would make to achieve this. These strategic plans were developed into their business unit playbooks that they then used for decision making and progress reporting.

Professional Services

This European pharmaceutical company wanted to find a strategy to make hyper-niche medicines financially viable. I worked with their therapeutic group executive team to help them clarify the market dynamics for this product group and using value chain analysis we uncovered a new, non-traditional, cost-effective channel to market. This was activated as a strategic plan and made niche products a viable R&D target for the future.

Pharmaceutical

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