Services &
the Strategy Process

What is Strategy, Design, and Implementation?

“Strategy” in Name Only

ALARMING FINDINGS

  • Less than 10% of organizational leaders exhibit strategic skills (Forbes)

  • 95% of employees are unaware of, or do not understand the strategy of their organization (Harvard Business Review)

  • Only 29% of employees were able to recognize their own company’s strategy in a multiple-choice question (Harvard Business Review)

  • 61% of senior executives acknowledged that their organizations do a poor job bridging the gap between strategy formulation and day-to-day implementation (The Economist)

  • 85% of leadership teams spend less than one hour per month on strategy, and 50% spend no time at all on strategy (Harvard Business Review)

Strategy that Really Works

KNOW Your Competitors

Decide what ‘Table Stakes’ are in your Industry and fix those that are Frustrating Customers / Employees

Look at EVERYTHING That could be a Separator for your organization

ANALYZE using Resource-Based Analysis and PUT TOGETHER a set of Compelling Competitive Advantages

Develop a Program to Implement and Align EVERY Employee of the Organization using strategy maps and a value transfer analysis approach for organizations such that everyone in the company knows where they should focus their efforts.

How It Works

This process is crafted around a centerpiece retreat. These are typically held either in-person over three (5-hour) days.

Our process dives into your organization's competitors, resources, capabilities, and competencies to develop an executable plan.

The most important part of working with us is our orientation toward teaching the leadership team all of the processes so they can run their future strategy efforts internally. We aim to enable the leadership team such that they never need our services again!

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1. Market & Competitor Analysis

  • Define & analyze the customer groups & competitors

  • Define those elements of the business that are holding the organization back

  • What are the top 2 'table stakes' parts of the business that need immediate effort?

  • Identify those elements of the business that provide a unique advantage (current and potential)

  • What do you want customers to say about your competitive advantages?

2. Strategy Design Workshop

  • Develop a strategy map / project plans / metrics / cadence

  • Design metrics that will be used to track the success of the strategy implementation

  • Who is the perfect customer for your competitive advantages?

3. Guide Implementation

  • Guide the implementation effort throughout the organization

  • Develop project plan