Strategy Facilitation and Business Planning

As the key decision maker in your business, why is it necessary for you take a long term view? Why must you manage strategically? The internationally renowned academic, Professor Kees van Heijden (1999) suggests that if a company is to succeed in the long term, it must:

1. Have a clear, precise and explicit idea of what it stands for, its values and distinctive competencies and a systemic understanding of how it will build, maintain and enhance its competitive advantage through these attributes (the 'business idea ').

2. Have tools and processes for strategic direction setting that enable you to understand the environment and to proactively develop strategies that will take advantage of opportunities.

3. Engage all members of the company in a continuous process of learning, which in turn implies a tolerance of ideas that do not 'fit' current perceptions, a shared language and context and freedom for people throughout the organisation to learn and to bring the learning back to the company .

So, how does it work?

The Strategic Thinking Process consists of 5 Steps.

It helps you to:

Ø       Consider the whole value chain in which your business operates

Ø       Focus on achieving the desired vision for your business

Ø       Adopt new ideas

Ø       Recognise the steps that link the present to your future vision

Ø       Focus on generating new ideas and testing the effect of these ideas

How we can help you...

We will assist you position your business for the future by helping you

Ø       develop a clear, precise and explicit idea of what it stands for, its values and distinctive competencies, and

Ø       use tools and processes to help you understand your environment and then select appropriate Strategies

We will do this through a facilitation process that encourages and challenges you and your management team to be both creative and realistic by building on your strengths.