What sets us apart from other strategic planning consultants is our unique approach to strategic planning. Most strategic planning consultants focus on just that – strategic planning. We go one step further – we help senior leaders to think strategically. Our experience allows us to facilitate and elicit genuine strategic ideas. In addition, we employ a highly interactive and dynamic style of facilitation that is highly effective, bringing together the lessons of hindsight and the possibilities of foresight to drive aligned action.
A discipline for assessing past and current competitive conditions, identifying an organization's capabilities, weaknesses, and key opportunities, clarifying its mission and strategic options, and aligning leadership around priority objectives through focused action plans.
A process for imagining a desirable future, whether through incremental improvement or a fundamentally new direction. It involves developing compelling stories and imagery that bring that future to life, then working backward to identify the steps needed to reach it.
A vital aspect of the process is ensuring that the ideas under discussion are truly strategic in focus. To support that, we guide the group to remain centered on the strategic level throughout the conversation.
A discipline that uses large-format visual displays to capture patterns in the group’s thinking. Through imagery, metaphors, and shared visuals, it helps surface bold ideas and clarify the actions the group wants to pursue. These big-picture displays uniquely stimulate collective insight and systems thinking.
A sound strategic plan is grounded first in the vision, mission and core values of an organization. It also identifies the strategic goals, objectives and metrics that will be used to guide and measure “success,” while establishing the framework for organizational, departmental and individual work plans needed to execute the strategy.
Our approach results in a thought-provoking experience that elicits your leadership's best ideas and insights. We combine traditional forms of strategic planning with leading-edge visioning, change processes and graphic facilitation.
