What is our strategy?

Is our strategy up to date?

Is our strategy working?

Are we effectively managing our workforce in support of our strategy?

Definition of your organization’s purpose, business model and long term (2 to 3 year) objectives to provide focus and establish priorities.  We use a combination of structured interviews and workshop sessions to help clients to articulate a strategy, test it and implement it.

Review and revision of your  strategy to make sure it is effective, competitively distinctive and compelling.  We help clients to conduct internal and external assessments of their strategy to see if they are working and if they are likely to continue to be effective.

Improvement of your organization's strategy execution by uncovering obstacles and gaps and increasing the use of strengths and core capabilities.  We use value chain analysis and other assessment tools to compare your strategic plans with your current business processes and capabilities.  Our work helps to identify disconnects and barriers so they can be addressed.

Creation or review of your organization's human resource strategy.  We help you to analyze you organization's workforce, HR programs and function by comparing them to the people capabilities needed to effectively implement your strategy.  Using this assessment you can adjust or develop more effective staffing, training and performance management plans.

A financial services company was looking for a strategic partner to support further growth. The executive team had a contentious working style and little direct experience with the creation of an explicit strategy. We helped them to articulate and agree to a strategic plan that they were able to use to successfully attract a major investor.

We worked with a CEO / founder and his leadership team to review and update his organization’s strategy. From the review process it was determined that a fundamental part of their business model was not working and limiting the effectiveness of other parts of their approach. A revision resulted in significantly greater growth over the next few years.

Our work with the CEO of an energy company helped him to identify why his largest customers were unhappy. Neither they nor his own people fully understood the business model they had put into play 18 months prior and confusion reigned. We helped them to identify where their strategy implementation had bogged down, determine how to repair the damage with their customers and plan how to get their workforce to use the new strategy.

For a global high technology company we helped the EVP of HR to assess his HR programs and processes