Our Strategy to Action service helps our clients identify the crucial activities that will smoothly and effectively transform their business performance. ​It ensures the focus of activity is on the most appropriate outcomes, mapping out a viable journey to get there.

In seeking momentum some organisations are tempted to jump immediately into action in the belief that they will save money and that benefits will be felt sooner. In practice, the reverse is often true. Without the strategy-to-action step, downstream waste is often much more costly and more difficult to repair, with impacts for both the organisation, and leaders personally.​

The service is built on the understanding that:

1. Organisations often face a need to realise a step-forward in performance in response to market pressure and competition, changes in the operating environment or to respond to an opportunity.​
2. Their first response is often to revisit and revise strategy and vision. This exercise tends to be analytical, with degrees of market scanning, and may not always test practicability.​
3. New strategy will often require new capabilities, and / or a change in balance of existing skills. The degree of stretch in the new strategy will inform the extent to which the the organisation’s challenge is to get more from existing capability, to build new capabilities, or both.​

Once the strategy-to-action process has been completed, the probability of successful transformation is increased. It will specifically the organisation avoid wasting time and effort due to:​

• Poor direction ie. spending on the wrong things​
• Inefficient or ineffective capability​
• Predictably or avoidably wasteful activity​
• Overload leading to ineffective effort

Ttansformations often fail to link and align strategy, vision, the transformation roadmap, and the operating model with detailed plans for delivery and the right mindset for success. Our strategy to action approach helps ensure these cornerstones of success​ are fully thought through.

Our approach is configurable, comprising distinct modules that address the different cornerstones according to the need in each client situation.