Strategic Market Assessment
We help your organization define and effectively target its maximum opportunity in its marketplace.
Strategic Planning
We assist in assessing and defining organization strategy, and aligning the company to accomplish its best scenario.
Organization Design
We help position the right skill sets and leadership into a structure that channels resources toward success.
Customer/Supplier Problem-Solving
Our third-party experts work with organizations whose business relationships must succeed, to resolve high-stakes issues.
Executive Development
We provide a comprehensive 360-degree performance evaluation for CEOs and senior executives as well as executive coaching and leadership development services.
Strategic Market Assessment
A company that understands and manifests its unique opportunities to create value can achieve greatness. Knowing how to define and target your organization's maximum opportunity is the key to creating strong market position within your industry food chain.
Strategic Marketing Approach
We use a marketing opportunity analysis process and unique diagnostics to assess your current situation from internal and external perspectives. We identify your core marketing objectives, sustainable growth strategies, customer value requirements, position for maximum opportunity, and branding strategy, and coach your team to implement marketing strategy effectively.
Strategic Marketing Toolbox
Market Opportunity Analysis
- Marketing diagnostics
- Marketing metrics/analytics
- Return on marketing
- CVD analysis
- Market segmentation
- Food chain analysis
- Reducing costs and complexity
- Value analysis-value engineering
- Competitive factors analysis
- Situation awareness
- Roadmapping: technology, markets, and products
- Net assessment
- Ecological readiness assessment
- Obstacles to innovation
Strategy Platform
- Differentiation
- Disruptive value vs. disruptive technology
- Strategic foresight
- Conjoint analysis
- Perceptual mapping
- Objectives scorecards and dashboards
- Ansoff Matrix
- Value disciplines
- Distinctive competencies
- Value proposition
- Brand stories
- Strategy time horizons
- Sustainable growth models
Marketing Strategy
- Innovation tools: Ideation, customer requirements, selection, development, commercialization
- Open innovation
- Price sensitivity analysis
- Value-based platform engineering—products & services
- Value chain analysis
- Interactive marketing
- Open-loop marketing
- Closed-loop marketing
- Feedback analysis
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Strategic Planning
Strategy is the company’s formula for maximum success. It specifies the company's mission, values, and the goals the company is pursuing, and sets out the basic direction for all employees. The strategy delineates the products or services to be provided, the markets to be served, the company's competitive advantage, and the value to be offered to the customer.
Strategic Planning Approach
Our deep and rich experience with companies of different sizes and industry types allows us to offer a proven strategic-planning process that enables companies' continued success. We work with our clients to assess their present and future market opportunities, evaluate their situation in these market segments, define their mission, values and goals and set implementation plans based on their competitive advantages. We help our customers align all their resources to the high-leverage targets that they have selected.
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Organization Design
Organizations often lack the best organization configuration to apply resources to their plans. Since the configuration of an organization gives it the results it gets, an obvious way to improve the organization’s results is to improve its design. Too often, however, attempts to improve an organization’s design hurt rather than help. We ensure that our clients implement constructive change and are able to design their organization to achieve its strategy.
Organizational Design Approach
We are skilled at helping our clients position the right people (skill sets and leadership), the right organizational structure, and the best core processes and systems to channel resources to the achievement of plans. We work with the executive team to ensure these changes are effective and that the organization’s leaders know how to initiate them. Outcomes include:
- Updated organization strategy
- Criteria for restructuring the organization
- Alternate organization structures, and reasons that a particular structure is best
- Plans for implementing the desired change
- A process to bring employees together to determine their department’s actions to support the achievement of company goals.
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Customer / Supplier Problem-Solving
Great customer / supplier partnerships occur when both parties can support the other's strategy, execution and challenges. However, sometimes this is not the case. And even with everyone trying hard, substantive issues can and do crop up in ongoing customer / supplier relationships. Such conflict is equally damaging between external joint-venture partners and in long-term customer / supplier relationships as it can be between departments in the same organization.
Problem-Solving Approach
When working with suppliers and their customers, we involve both parties in defining the goals of the initiative. We involve critical stakeholders whose help is needed to get the relationship back on track if appropriate. Both organizations are assigned key roles in the conflict-resolution process, and together, the consultant and the team define an ideal solution that agrees on metrics, and commits to follow through. We then ensure appropriate follow up and develop ways to monitor the results.
Many customer / supplier problems can be prevented, and many situations lend themselves to proactively building strong customer / supplier relationships. Recent M&A activity, reorganization, or leadership changes can merit a problem-avoidance session, especially in which a customer organization is highly dependent on a supplier, or needs better performance from an important supplier.
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Executive Development
360-degree feedback and coaching from an experienced third party provides insights into performance available no other way. Time and again, we have seen major improvement in every aspect of executive's performance and better problem-solving for the areas of the company the executive controls as a result of this effort.
We provide a comprehensive 360-degree performance evaluation for CEOs and senior executives as well as executive coaching and leadership development training.
Our approach to executive development training is to ensure that it enhances the capability of leaders to achieve their organizational strategy. We offer leadership training with a strategy focus As a result, executives come away with improved skills and also forward movement on market opportunities and strategy.
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