How much life is left in your current strategy?
Most organizations don’t place enough emphasis on objectively assessing their strategies’ rate of decline. All strategies decay. This is especially dangerous in these times where the pace of change is even faster than in the last 10 years. Strategies become irrelevant much more quickly in the Age of Accelerations. There are few, very few perpetually successful strategies. How knowledgeable are you about the signs of decay in your company?
“Provocative and Pragmatic — I could immediately put the strategies we created to work in my company.”
– Derek Van Eck, President, Global Financial Services, New York
Mary looks at the future through a variety of lenses, using disparate puzzle pieces of the most relevant trends and drivers to create a comprehensive picture of your future. This allows organizations to discard decaying assumptions and strategies and create strategies and adopt plans that will lead to sustainable growth and innovation.
How much life does your current strategy have? A strategic briefing by Mary can provide you with reliable forecasted business intelligence customized to you.
Do you know the eight top trends that will gain strength in the next three years and how they will impact your business or organization?
Most organizations have some knowledge of trends, but few have a process for specifically analyzing which are important short and long-term and which are not. Many organizations experience a rapid strategy decay because they got the timing of a trend’s impact wrong.
What:
Our executive briefings are customized interactive half day sessions that provide an analysis of selected trends and shifts in your marketplace coupled with outside objective insights and discussions on options and timing to respond.
Who:
The Briefings are for senior executives who are at the beginning a strategic planning process or executing on strategic initiatives that aren’t delivering expected results. Others who can benefit: R&D groups, strategy departments, human resources, consumer business groups, or any business unit that wants a powerful injection of new thinking and information to tune up their thinking about the future.
How:
Preparation includes interviews with 2-4 executives to learn about your strategic issues and position as well as clarify your desired out comes from the briefing.
Deliverables:
A copy of the presentation is provided. The briefing is graphically recorded and you receive a synthesis of key results, along with an annotation of the major implications of each section of your customized graphic discussion map.
Case Study: Scripps Network
What does the future hold for the small screen? Television has been undergoing major changes for some time, and now with the rapid evolution of the Web, even more profound changes are on the horizon. Scripps Network wanted to kick off their strategic planning for the year with a provocative outlook for their business, kick the tires of their assumptions, and gain major outside input into their thinking before they got started. They left the session with eight strategic imperatives and specific implications of how these trends would impact various aspects of their business.