strategy
development

Strategy describes what organizations do: how they set priorities, allocate resources,
and measure performance.

We help client teams:

  • Assess their competitive position
  • Articulate a vision
  • Delineate strategies, making practical choices
  • Clarify resource requirements
  • Link strategies to concrete action plans
  • Forge performance metrics
  • Align roles and systems
  • Implement programs
  • Measure progress, interpret results, course-correct

How do we work?

We provide analytic tools, a proven methodology and seasoned perspectives.

Typical strategy programs span 6-12 weeks, and are segmented into phases:
- Strategic assessment
- Strategy development
- Implementation support

We usually collaborate with client teams of 6-18 senior managers, and engage a range of key stakeholders along the way.

Deliverables from the process include:
- competitive, financial, and organizational analyses
- a strategy and set of implementation plans that will improve performance
- concise performance metrics
- a common language, and a structured process for monitoring and interpreting results.

We've refined our approach through hundreds of corporate, business, marketing, and not-for-profit strategy projects, spanning dozens of sectors and industries, over the past two decades.

For more information about how we work, see the articles:

practical choices