What We Do Planning

Business Strategy

We work closely with the Business Owner(s), Chief Executive or Board of Directors to help develop a clear long-term strategy for the organisation. Not simply a written “Business Plan”, with the usual spreadsheets and graphs, but more importantly the essential thinking that’s needed before committing the plan to paper.

The exact way we achieve this depends on the organisation’s needs. At its simplest, this can be to provide a sounding-board for the business owner or senior management team: an independent assessment, perhaps combined with market research or competitor analysis, or simply playing the role of Devil’s Advocate. More often, we develop and run structured workshop sessions. Led by an experienced facilitator, these are confidential, often challenging sessions. A rigorous approach, combined with proven tools and techniques, takes you through the whole process of analysis, choice and implementation. Once you’re happy with the outline strategy we can then help you translate this into an Implementation Plan. Working with those who will implement the plan, we work out the implications for the different areas of the business, and gain commitment to making it happen. Finally, we can help you put in place the performance management systems to review and improve the whole process.

Change Management

Many of our clients want to achieve positive lasting change. They know the benefits, but can also see the risks. Why re-invent the wheel? We use a proven, structured approach that works. This greatly reduces your risk, and saves you a lot of time, effort and stress. Whether you simply want a roadmap that you can use, or you want us to project manage an entire programme, we can help.

Based on practical experience of achieving successful change, we help you with the “tricky stuff” – leadership, winning hearts and minds, tackling the roadblocks, changing the people.