strategic planning

Your Objectives
To create a strategic plan in order to:

Identify and address major issues or goals specific to your organization
Ensure strong alignment along your organization's mission for all involved
Develop a sound and unified basis for future planning within your organization
Fine-tune strategies, or gain an increased understanding around barriers to successful strategy
Help prepare for strategic issues that may arise in the future
Consistently maintain the underlying values of your organization

How We Can Help
We offer different types of strategic planning models and levels of analysis to help your organization address its unique needs and objectives:

Help you clarify executive strategic thinking through a Strategy Conclave
- Provide guidance during clarification and definition of your organization's guiding principles
- Facilitate the assessment of key issues that your strategy has to address
- Help in the identification of the core organizational competencies required to implement the strategy
- Direct your team towards the development of a strategic plan for the prolonged success of the organization

Help you develop a Strategic Roadmap vision and an associated Operational Strategy to implement your vision
- Collect data, via interviewing and questionnaires, of the differing team member viewpoints about the strategic direction of the organization
- Provide assistance where appropriate in developing a consensus and commitment to a plan of action among the stakeholders and members of the team by facilitating Visioning sessions for strategic planning
- Keep the group aligned with the envisioned future of the organization by framing the strategic and operational planning within the vision for the organization
- Assist in the development of plans for implementation of the strategy via operational planning, to ensure that the vision of the organization is maintained both in theory and in practise

Help you conduct a Detailed Analytical Strategic Assessment and Evaluation
- A full detailed data development and analysis of your organization's strategy, including sourcing strategy, competitive analysis, Go To Market strategy, scenario planning, cost analysis, market research analysis, market/customer segmenting, channel analysis, SWOT, and customer satisfaction analysis
- Research similar organizations and/or possible competitors to provide objective benchmarking standards
- Assess key areas with opportunities to improve via in-depth research of all relevant processes at a granular level
- Provide a detailed productivity analysis at all levels, including time measurement tracking tools and services
- Help determine the ways to benefit from these opportunities via new strategic plans and initiatives
- Identify core competencies necessary for strategy implementation
- Provide sound guidance and advice to improve existing strategies
- Provide services in the area of ongoing detailed monitoring and review, and by evaluating and updating strategic plans as needed

Help you develop an Enterprise-Wide Strategic Plan
- Gather objective data and information about the processes of the entire enterprise
- Help to determine the goals and performance of the organization as a whole
- Determine how the business is to be conducted - centralized or decentralized, integrated or independent
- Identify key strategic issues that need to be addressed to ensure that department(s) are aligned with goals of the entire enterprise
- Help to design major strategies or programs to address these issues
- Provide guidance in establishing action plans to implement these strategies
Help you identify Department-specific strategic plans that mesh into the overall organization
- Gather objective data and information about the processes of the specific department
- Help to determine the goals of the department, its level of performance and its role in the organization
- Determine how the specific department will support the corporate structure
- Identify key strategic issues that need to be addressed to ensure that department(s) are aligned with goals of the entire enterprise
- Help to design major strategies or programs to address these issues
- Provide guidance in establishing action plans to implement these strategies

Benefits
You benefit by:

Having a plan that will help to position you for continued competitive growth and success
Having an a third party assess the market place and competitive environment, thus maintaining confidentiality on behalf of both users/buyers, competitors and yourself
Establishing a strategic plan that fits the needs of your group
Identifying and evaluating strengths and weaknesses in the critical success areas
Defining the desired role or vision to be maintained
Setting realistic objectives to support your strategies
Staying on top of rapidly changing developments in your business environment
Maintaining a common, aligned vision for your organization with all involved groups, departments, and individual team members

Our Experience
Examples of our experience include:

Major involvement in the development over thirty strategic plans for a range of organizations. Industry sectors have included for example insurance, financial services, professional services, distributors, transportation, oil and gas, and health care
Identification of strategic thrusts, identification of services to be offered, operational strategies, resource requirements, and profitability analysis
Facilitation of strategy clarification workshops/retreats for senior executives, including for example a health care organization and a national trucking company