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A workshop is the main value delivery platform for customised analyses and consulting, which allows client teams to apply analysis to their own business circumstances.

A workshop can be set around a single piece of analysis; or around a single client priority; or as part of a Strategy Development decision-making cycle.

Our consultants facilitate the process of applying tools to review capabilities and options, to build client team consensus around different scenarios.

Teams learn from the analytical tools employed  to evaluate the potential of each strategic option

Plenary sessions to formulate strategic options and implementation priorities, mapping external conditions to internal capabilities and resource profile.

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Objectives of A Workshop Process

  • To bring all key business development stakeholders together into a creative environment and collaborative process for developing a hierarchy of strategic initiatives
  • In seeking to develop a new strategy perspective our clients learn about strategic assessment practices, and what other companies are doing, and how to respond to the challenges of the evolving market trends
  • To significantly reduce the time required to identify and evaluate new strategic alternatives: now and in the future
  • To combine strategic & conceptual thinking with analytical tools; to select the new business options/models that hold the greatest potential for sustainable corporate growth
  • To build an aligned, and committed client team that can accelerate the development of strategy implementation
  • To introduce an structured system for managing the Option Evaluation Process.

 

Exploratory Phase: Aims
 
An initiation workshop is followed by intelligence gathering by our consultants for screening options
  • Current perspective presentation review - forecasts, competition, domains
  • Identifying Aligned Strategic Objective
  • Identifying Strengths & Weaknesses in Execution Capabilities
  • Identifying New Opportunities
  • Qualification of Known Opportunitie
  • Prioritization of criteria for Short-listing Preferred Options

 

 

 

Analysis and Evaluation Phase: Aims

An option prioritisation workshop is followed by in-depth analysis by our consultants of short-listed options

  • Intelligence Gathering to Profile Options
  • Analysis of Specific Measures within Prioritized Opportunities
  • Validation Of Potential Strategy  & Implementation Recommendations

 

Our consultants conduct in-depth analyses to qualify the shortlisted opportunities. See some of our analyses
under Customised Analyses

This generates a suite of validated opportunities to explore in the proceeding workshop.

Client-defined parameters for analysis and evaluation ensures that the assessments dovetail directly into client’s internal assessment parameters.

The process provides a body of intelligence, sources and analyses for workshop sessions and which clients can build their future evaluation methods.

Incorporates a before & after assessment of the clients position within current market environment, and comparative analyses of client and competitors.

Explores defined parameters for successful strategy choices for each opportunity

 

 

Formulate Strategy Phase: Aim

  • Translating Strategic alternatives into an actionable strategy
  • Apply tools and techniques to evaluate strategies and confirm synergy with capabilities
  • Set Objectives, review budget trade-offs, confirm sequencing




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