Strategy
We help our clients build a powerful strategy to mobilize resources and reach transformational goals to drive value creation
Delivering an agile business strategy that is a long-term plan and not a short-term fix requires examining capital allocation, competing projects, people, process, technology, competitors, supply chains, global tax, accounting, and trade scenarios.
A robust strategy may require that each functional area produces a separate strategic plan to support the overall business plan.
An overall strategic plan for the business should have as much or more focus on markets, competitors, and customers to drive growth. Conversely,
too much internal focus will inhibit organizational growth.
A well-designed strategic business plan guides the development of strategy for each function within the enterprise.
Our work with boards, CEOs, and C-suite executives enables us to leverage our top to bottom perspective and ability to engage, communicate, deliver answers to strategic business questions, and deliver effective strategic plans.
How We Help Clients
Connecting the Organization
We lead monthly or quarterly business reviews with business executives and operational executives to ensure appropriate projects are appropriately prioritized and on time and budget.
Capital Allocation Strategy
We build high-level capital allocation models that enable our clients to explore optimal capital allocation policies and expedite value creation.
Leading Business Strategy Model Development
We help our clients develop an overall strategic roadmap with prioritized areas of strategic focus, client team validated priorities, and details of the defined workstreams. We lead data acquisition and model formulation to enable what-if analysis and effects on the overall strategy. We build a global project prioritization plan for each workstream and the organization needed to accomplish the desired outcome.
Constructing the Corporate Strategic Plan
We lead workshops with key client team members to determine the strategic roadmap for an approach to the global planning process. Next, functional workstreams and SME’s are defined and assigned to develop their portion of the strategic plan. Finally, we deliver a communications plan for success.
Conducting Global Interviews and Rationalizing Strategic Requirements
Our experienced and fully qualified program and principals ensure that strategic requirements accurately reflect global strategic and operational goals and define organizational requirements and projects to meet expectations. Develop standard global go-to-market strategies where possible.
What We Do
Global Strategy and Project Prioritization
Delivering a prioritized strategic roadmap to ensure success; built from a set of business capabilities scenarios critical to the success of a world-class integrated strategic plan.
Strategic Benchmarking
Improving the capability to assess and compare competitive performance across multiple success criteria and provide reliable guidance to future strategic performance.
Driving Business Strategy to Align with Business Capabilities
Building a strategic framework to map operational excellence to business strategy and ensure the right human resources can deliver success.
Strategic Performance
Enhancing strategic performance management processes through more efficient and effective planning, forecasting, analysis, reporting, predictive modeling, and what-if analysis.
Functional Strategic Planning
Modeling a Business Capabilities Model scenario and connecting data sources from across the enterprise. Providing a unified performance reporting and what-if analysis tool to enable informed control team performance and management. Includes role-based views of the strategic planning progress using the same core data to provide actionable insights.
Cross-Functional Strategic Insights
Building specialized data and advanced analytics views to enable the strategic planning team to exercise successful operational control of the business capabilities modeling process and optimally align business needs and strategic opportunities. Shows details of on-time, on-budget deliverables with weekly management updates.
Global Data Integration for Strategy Implementation
Implementing a global data warehouse with top to bottom views of the enterprise to support strategy implementation that spans the enterprise, including ERP and CRM systems. Integrating hundreds of disparate data sources can provide near real-time responses to the latest what-if questions. The integration also offers support for strategy implementation.
Clean Data for Strategy Implementation
Delivering clean data across the enterprise is the foundation needed to support elements of a successful strategy. Strategies that require the joining of data from diverse systems across the enterprise for strategy implementation can benefit from master data management.
Strategic Scorecard / Dashboard
Delivering a strategic dashboard enables each operation to review hundreds of metrics and other management information that reflects the operational performance.
Quality Focused, Result Driven
Our Approach
We combine our expertise with an end-to-end perspective of the enterprise and its environment, then leverage powerful AI and data science tools to expose optimal strategies for value creation
Characterize the Organization
We synthesize a profile of the organization, its enterprise investment portfolios, function organization, and leadership.
Establish Scope and Issues
We meet with leadership to understand the most salient issues driving the need for redevelopment of strategy.
Explore the Enterprise, Environment, and Competitive Landscape
We build a comprehensive study of the organization and its environment, focusing on the functional and financial relationships within the enterprise and supply chain and market metrics and competitor strengths. We consider market positioning, channels, and revenue generation as well.
Analysis and Optimization
We model the enterprise with tools from operations research, AI, and data science. We build and test a portfolio of scenarios that enable us to evaluate a wide variety of strategy questions.
Top Level Strategy Development
We assemble a coherent suite of top-level enterprise strategies as a strategic plan from our analytical studies and with the original scope and issues on deck.
Functional Strategy Development
With a strategic plan in hand, we build out detailed functional strategies for each of the critical functional areas within scope.
Communication and Reviews
We present the strategic plan and detailed functional strategies and validate each with appropriate audiences.
Sectors We Serve
- Chemicals, Metals, and Mining
- Distribution
- Electric Power & Natural Gas
- Engineering, Construction, Building Materials
- Financial Services
- Manufacturing
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products
- Public Sector
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
- Travel & Hospitality
Sustained, Unfair Competitive Advantage
Impact Stories
Establishing the Georgia Technology Authority
Global IT Strategy - Customer and Revenue Focused
Finding Star Partners
Bringing an Oil Storage Facility Back to Life
Data and Analytics Transformation Roadmap
What if You Have to Integrate Multiple ERP and CRM Systems?
Four Steps to BI Dashboard Success
Become Comfortable with Uncertainty
Our People
Understand how our team can help your organization strategy.
Greg Ashworth
Senior Prinicpal
Robert Amos
Prinicpal
Jason Biske
Prinicpal
Dennis McMaster
Prinicpal
George Fandos
Prinicpal
Gil Benton
Prinicpal
