Strategy and change
We help you achieve your strategic priorities — from successfully initiating strategic processes to ensuring you succeed with the changes that take you from planning to execution.
More organizations are facing growing unpredictability and complexity. While the instinct might be to push harder for results, the real solution lies in shifting to a higher gear — starting with clear strategic priorities and better management of change processes. That’s where we come in.
We can help with:
Strategic priorities and goals. Every strategy succeeds or fails based on whether the right choices are made—both what to pursue and what to avoid. We help you identify, select, and implement these priorities. For example, the selection of must-win battles, the planning process in collaboration with you, and setting the right key metrics for results and behavior (KPIs and KBIs).
Creating insights that lead to change. Making decisions based solely on assumptions and intuition rarely addresses the real challenges in an organization. That is why we conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses, such as interviews and our cultural assessments in order to gain a clear understanding of the organization’s situation, create internal awareness, and identify the most crucial areas that support your strategy and culture.
The change process itself. A great strategy and plan are worthless without behaviors that support them. We assist you in all phases of your change processes—whether it’s helping you create detailed plans, acting as your strategic advisor, or facilitating workshops and training at all levels of your organization.
Creating a shared identity. A defining characteristic of agile and successful organizations is their ability to drive progress through strong communities. It is about having a clear direction and purpose that provides meaning and motivation for both leaders and employees. We help you develop, redesign, or revitalize your mission, vision, and values to achieve this.
Leadership Operating Model. A Leadership Operating Model is a blueprint that outlines how you approach leadership and culture and create the right conditions for success. It sets the standard and ensures that best practices are easy to follow, regardless of the complexity of your organization. It describes, for example, how to implement “good leadership,” how to collaborate, how to onboard new employees, and how to use IT systems effectively.
Choosing the right leadership approach. The leadership approach we choose is crucial to shifting from simply doing more to focusing on actions that drive the desired behavior. We help you develop and articulate the leadership philosophy and principles that form the foundation for ensuring high engagement and drive.
Playbooks. The primary go-to guide for leaders, providing concrete tools and best practice instructions for the recurring situations they face. We help you create leadership playbooks that make it easier to be a great leader, especially when day-to-day challenges arise, and the status quo needs to change.
Here are some examples of how we have supported organizations:
- Merging two factories by conducting cultural assessments, providing strategic advisory services to the leadership team, and designing a development program with tools and training to ensure a successful merger.
- Developing and implementing a Leadership Operating Model for an international food company aiming to improve collaboration and leadership.
- Assisting a leadership team in defining a new mission, vision, and values, as well as facilitating their implementation when the company faced a re-integration with the parent company but sought to maintain its own identity and culture.
- Prioritizing of must-win battles and the creation of a newly defined leadership approach in collaboration with a leadership team.
