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Custom designed for you

Your situation is unique.

You don’t want cookie-cutter solutions.

We don’t offer them.

We start by understanding your situation. Then we work with you to design and prepare a solution that is right for you and your organisation: culturally, financially, and in terms of the trade-off between building capability and just getting it done.

Once we’ve co-created the right solution, we co-deliver it – helping your people where appropriate, doing it for you when that makes more sense. In most projects, there are always some unexpected things that come up. We work with you to see how best to respond to these, while staying on course to the results you want.

We help you capture additional value at the end, through an organised “harvesting” step that identifies useful tools, information, personal development and other benefits – so they don’t just fade away.

 

Typical Programmes

Even though your situation is unique, it might well fit a pattern we’ve seen before. Here are some examples of solutions we’ve found helpful before.

Turning Point Strategy

Gets your team clear and aligned around a new strategy. It isn’t “team building”, not as you probably know it. We help you and your team bring your strategy into sharp focus, so that your organisation can get into action to implement it. Go here for more details.

Implications of Change

Builds a shared understanding of what your strategy means. We help managers throughout your organisation clarify what your strategy means – for the organisation and for themselves. Go here for more details.

Leadership Forum

Builds leadership capability and alignment throughout the organisation. When you want to make a strategic shift quickly, you need to have managers throughout the business helping to make it happen. This puts the spotlight on your managers and creates the conditions for the leaders among them to step forward and lead. Go here for more details.

DIY Strategy and Planning

Helps your people develop practical action plans that work. Our “DIY strategy” toolkit gives teams anywhere in your organisation a framework to translate your strategy into workable solutions and solid plans they understand and support. Go here for more details.

If you would like to discuss a situation you are facing, Contact us.

When we develop a tailored solution, we don’t start with a blank sheet of paper. We have deep experience in a wide range of specific areas.

Strategy Development

  • Customer / consumer research
  • Competitor evaluation and profiling
  • Trend analysis and market sizing
  • Segmentation and targeting
  • Market entry planning
  • Business plan development
  • Financial modelling
  • Strategy / vision workshops

Change Management

  • Programme design
  • Executive team buy-in
  • Employee engagement events
  • Change roadmaps
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Programme management

Leadership Development

  • Executive team workshops
  • Executive coaching
  • Leadership development programmes

Sales Improvement

  • Sales process design
  • Channel / distributor management
  • Sales force sizing
  • Key account management
  • Client retention
  • CRM process design
  • Sales manager development
  • Lead generation

Organisational Effectiveness

  • Organisation design
  • Performance management systems
  • Employee lifecycle modelling

Operational Efficiency

  • Process design
  • Workforce sizing
  • Performance enhancement
  • Technology utilisation

Innovation

  • Concept development
  • Business case development
  • Product positioning
  • Venture plan development
  • Partner identification and evaluation
  • Service prototyping / piloting
  • Venture startup

Brand Value

  • Development
  • Positioning
  • Revitalisation
  • Employee engagement

M&A

  • Identifying acquisition targets
  • Target evaluation and analysis
  • Pre-acquisition, non-accounting due diligence
  • Post-merger integration
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