Helping organizations achieve strategic goals

Hiring an outside consultant for strategy development offers several advantages: 

Fresh Perspective: External consultants bring unbiased viewpoints and fresh insights to your organization. They can provide a new perspective on challenges and opportunities that might be overlooked by internal teams who are entrenched in the company culture.

Specialized Expertise: Consultants often have specialized knowledge and experience in strategy development across various industries and organizations. They can offer best practices, innovative approaches, and strategic frameworks that may not be readily available within your organization.

Time and Resources: Developing a comprehensive strategic plan requires significant time and resources. Outsourcing this task to a consultant allows your internal teams to focus on their core responsibilities while leveraging the consultant's expertise to expedite the strategy development process.

Objective Assessment: External consultants can conduct objective assessments of your organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis). They are not influenced by internal politics or biases, enabling them to provide candid feedback and recommendations.

Change Management: Implementing a new strategic plan often involves organizational change. Consultants can facilitate this process by providing change management expertise, guiding communication efforts, and assisting with the alignment of stakeholders around the strategic vision.

Risk Mitigation: Engaging an outside consultant can help mitigate the risk of internal conflicts or groupthink that may arise during the strategy development process. Consultants can act as impartial facilitators, ensuring that all perspectives are considered and consensus is reached.

Watch for market shifts and competitive pressures, performance plateaus, stakeholder feedback, organizational changes, alignment issues, and current strategy expiration as cues to update your strategic plan for sustained relevance and growth. 

Though each client's journey is unique, our process generally involves gathering qualitative and quantitative data (such as industry analysis, stakeholder interviews, and employee surveys), assessing current strategies, identifying necessary changes, facilitating strategy sessions with leadership teams, fine-tuning goals and action plans, and setting up accountability teams and measures for success. 

We work with organizations of all sizes and industries, including startups, small, and medium businesses, public and nonprofit organizations.

The strategy development process typically spans 3 to 6 months, varying with organizational complexity. While our involvement may end here, we also provide strategy implementation monitoring services. These include monthly progress assessments during the strategy term. We customize our support, offering evaluations monthly, quarterly, or yearly, according to your needs.