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We offer five integrated services to prepare you and your team for organizational excellence and to successfully execute in the marketplace. Strategic Planning: Prepare Vision and Strategy If you lack business focus we will help you establish a vision and craft innovative strategies so that you motivate your people and increase your value to customers, owners, employees, and society. Imagine your organization with a renewed focus, prepared to execute on winning strategies. Performance Management: Get Results To deploy your strategy we help you overcome organizational hurdles and establish mechanisms to manage performance so that you will execute as a winning team, get results and create a sustainable competitive advantage. Imagine your leaders and teams rallying around integrated, purposeful goals and an aligned community focused on improvement and ongoing learning. Leadership Development: Develop Competent Managers, Leaders and Teams When “people issues” are holding you back from reaching the next levels we help you develop competent leaders and teams to increase performance and the capability to lead innovation so that you will boost your ability to progress. Process Design: Innovate Processes If your processes no longer effectively support your market position then we help you innovate and align the processes so that you will create customer value and secure your future success. Imagine processes and feedback systems that increase your competitiveness and effectiveness. Change & Project Management: Implement the Right Projects When your projects and change initiatives fail at an alarming rate then we help you select, kick-off and implement the right projects so you will use your resources optimally and apply essential improvement and innovation. Most organizations fail to set up structures and develop skills to effectively handle project work. Please contact us to learn more about how we can help your organization. Strategic Planning : We help you establish a vision and craft innovative and successful strategies to motivate your people and increase your value to customers, owners, employees, and society. We will assist you in achieving the following results – Clear Vision of the Future. Establish a clear vision that motivates your employees and partners. The vision helps you institute the organization’s values and beliefs, its purpose and a unifying mission. Then look into the future and gain foresight of opportunities and challenges. Capture the combined wisdom of environmental and marketplace factors, trends and scenarios. Innovative Market Position. Develop an innovative market position which conveys how your business provides value in the marketplace. The market position will also convey your value proposition and your competitive position in terms of cost, product or new market leadership. This will also help you clarify your customer profile and segmentation as well as the ultimate outcome Viable Business Model. Construct a viable business model which will reduce risk and provide profits. Recognize your core business processes and how they tie to the value position. Determine and validate your financial business model and assumptions so it is clear how the model is linked to the value position, customer segmentation and core processes. Gaps in Organizational Readiness. Identify leadership and organizational readiness and learning gaps, which will indicate what in the form of skills, knowledge, practices, and language the organization must develop in order to be successful with the new strategy. Measurements for Tracking. Create a relevant set of measurements to track all important aspects of your progress toward your mission. Measurements become the foundation for effective management. Strategic Change Initiatives. Form your strategic change initiatives and the associated road map and communications plan. Your change initiatives will clearly communicate what must be increased, reduced, introduced and eliminated within your organization.
We help you overcome organizational hurdles and establish mechanisms to manage performance so that you will execute as a winning team, get results and create a sustainable competitive advantage. We will assist you in achieving the following results – Assess Readiness for Change. Come to understand your organization’s culture and readiness for change. Identify strategies to overcome organizational hurdles such as political, cultural and motivational barriers. Learn how to get people face-to-face with reality as well as overcome cognitive, resource, motivational and political hurdles. Align the Organizational Structure. Develop an effective and successful organizational structure. Map the organization’s communications structure and problems. Align the organization by closing the gap between the intended and actual communication structure, your desired market position and required business processes. Business Planning to Deploy the Strategy. Establish business planning mechanism to deploy your strategy and distribute goals and objectives. Improve the measurement and alignment of performance at all levels and in all parts of the organization. You will make your organization more effective by keeping score and rallying your team around integrated purposeful goals. Ensure Information Availability. Plan for the quality and availability of needed data and information for employees, suppliers/partners and customers, to be effective. Determine required comparative information effectively to support operational and strategic decision making and innovation. Use comparative information effectively to support operational and strategic decision making and innovation. Align Measures, Reporting and Meetings. Ensure the relevance of your measurement system and its support by the information architecture, reporting, business processes, and employee performance management. Align your recurring meeting and reporting structures to ensure utmost efficiency in preparation and decision making.
Leadership Development: Competent Managers, Leaders & Teams We help you develop competent leaders to increase performance and alignment so you will boost your ability to progress. We will assist you in achieving the following results – Basic Leadership Skills. Avoid problems and introduce basic managerial and leadership skills to your new leaders before they face critical situations and decisions. Improve Leadership Performance. Improve performance for leaders with high interpersonal competence and low performance. The focus is on developing specific techniques, skills and abilities that otherwise might be preventing high performance. Enhance the performance for the high potential leaders who want to reach the next level. The focus is on leveraging strengths to enhance the potential. Develop Leadership Competence. Develop the competence for leaders with high performance and low interpersonal competence. The focus is on developing social, interpersonal and communication skills that may derail the leader. Leadership Evaluation, Selection and Succession. Evaluate and select the right leadership candidates. Most performance problems begin before the leader has been hired and could be avoided by using a more judicious matching and screening process. Select leaders from a rigorous succession planning process that focuses on developing internal talent. Build Effective Teams. Build effective leadership and project teams. The focus is on establishing a foundation of mutual trust, respect and collaboration within the team as well as building support for team goals, roles, norms and plans.
We help you select, kick-off and implement the right projects so you will use your resources optimally. We will assist you in achieving the following results – Select the Right Projects. Align project initiatives with the organizations strategy and goals to guide allocation of capital and human resources for highest business impact. Enhance your project success rate by avoiding the main reasons for failure. Evaluate your project against our six reasons that projects fail – lack of respect for change, jumping to conclusions, no shared finish line, business leader abdication, complex technology, and project team immaturity. Develop a Project Organization. Develop effective organizational project structure and skills. Although so much organizational work takes place as project work, most organizations pay little attention to the human skills and organizational structures that should support this. Establish Project Evaluation Criteria. Ensure that projects have great pay-off before you approve. Avoid a fuzzy relationship between project selection and business results. Improve project information and establish evaluation against criteria and portfolio. Build the Project Team. Build an effective project team. The focus is on establishing a foundation of mutual trust, respect and collaboration within the team as well as building support for team goals, roles, norms and plans.
We help you innovate and align the processes so that you will create customer value and secure your future success. We will assist you in achieving the following results – Align Processes and Value. Identify value creation processes and support processes and align these with the market position to fully understand how value and profitability is created and assign resources appropriately. Design processes to increase competitiveness and effectiveness. Innovate Processes. Improve or innovate your core and supportive processes to achieve better performance and improve products and service. Identify business opportunities and requirements for new initiatives through process mapping of current and future processes. Incorporate input from customers through “voice of customer” program and stakeholders, to align processes with value and customer needs as well as with productivity and cost control needs. Process Measure Alignment. Increase effectiveness by aligning process measures with the overall performance measurement system, where appropriate. Identify key performance measures and indicators for process control and improvement. Evolve the overall process maturity from early stage approaches to an integrated approach characterized by processes that are repeatable and regularly improved as well as seeking efficiencies, sharing and innovation across units. Automation with Information Technology. Effectively apply information systems technology to facilitate appropriate automation for core and supportive processes. Ensure full understanding of processes and of alternatives prior to initiating automation projects that too often fail.
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