Strategy that Creates Transformational Results

It is all too common for strategic planning to become a revenue forecasting and budgeting activity that produces sub-optimal results or strategic inaction. 

Familiar challenges include:  

• Direction:  Is the vision so clear that all your leaders know what to do? Is the direction being set based on a market assessment and relevant / accurate information? What will influence the future? What are the opportunities and risks? 
• Ignoring the Elephant:  Do you understand or address the elephant in the room?  How do you challenge and address the topics? How do you marginalize internal politics and build cohesion?
• Oversimplification:  Are you prepared to plan for an increasingly complex and competitive world? How do you avoid the "oversimplification" pitfall?
• Accountability:  Who owns execution of the strategies and plans? Due by when? Executed to what degree? How do we define and measure success?
• Engagement:  Do you have the right stakeholders involved? Should you engage the troops or your customers for buy-in, bottoms-up perspective, or to challenge leadership's thinking? Are your executives prepared or able to make the necessary changes?
• Consensus:  Is consensus needed and by whom? How do you build alignment?
• Feasibility:  Innovation and stretching the organization can lead to feasibility constraints. How do you right size the plans, guide the planning, and/or enable their feasibility? How do you mobilize strategy?
• Change:  Do you understand the change complexity?  What is the plan for preparing and enabling the stakeholders to be successful? Learn more...