Forward-Leaning StrategyDevelop and stress-test future-focused growth strategies and define an implementation road-map that is both robust and adaptable. Envision potential future scenarios for the market, identify and evaluate key strategic choices, deepen understanding, expand insight and build alignment and commitment to a single integrated plan of action.
As the context of business accelerates and becomes increasingly dynamic, the past and current performance of a firm are decreasingly relevant as predictors of future performance. As Harvard Business School’s Professor Clayton Christensen famously noted, “For whatever reason, the way the world is made we only have data on the past, yet we have to take decisions for the future.”
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We facilitate leadership teams through an 8-step process that encourages robust discussion of the forces shaping the sector and stimulates innovative thinking about the strategic alternatives the organisation could pursue. The main outcome is the alignment of the leadership team on a strategic vision and a road-map that combines both clear choices and the flexibility to adapt as the actual future unfolds. We have deployed and refined our approach over the past 25 years through use with businesses of all sizes, from start-ups to global corporations, government agencies and not-for-profit organisations.
Benefits of our approach are:
- Stress-test your existing strategy and assumptions for the evolution of the sector.
- Engage leadership team in a process that enhances alignment and commitment.
- Deepen understanding of the interplay between the forces shaping the sector.
- Identify and evaluate new potential strategic options.
- Increase preparedness for and sensitivity to detect changes in market evolution.
- Create a framework for clear messaging and engagement with stakeholders.
Whether at a young start-up or established multi-national, every leadership team needs to share the vision of the future that reflects and incorporates all their insights on opportunities and their doubts; this necessitates an inclusive, interactive process. Yet from broad expansive thinking a single integrated plan of action must emerge, with clarity of the priorities and steps to pursue.
Our process supports and facilities your leadership team through the 8-step process, that is either organised as 3 x 1-day workshops over a 6-8 week period, or conducted in an intensive single workshop of 3 days.
Our process supports and facilities your leadership team through the 8-step process, that is either organised as 3 x 1-day workshops over a 6-8 week period, or conducted in an intensive single workshop of 3 days.
Timing and format are adjusted to match your requirements; and the balance between your objectives of Accelerating Outcomes vs. Enhancing Capabilities.
Our unique facilitative approach delivers 200% value for our clients:
Accelerating Outcomes AND Enhancing Capabilities.
Our unique facilitative approach delivers 200% value for our clients:
Accelerating Outcomes AND Enhancing Capabilities.