Instilling Management Discipline to Develop and Execute Creative Strategies.

While vision provides the much needed stability for an organization, for its aspirations to take shape, a Strategic Management System (SMS) is necessary to enable the organization to think and act in a well orchestrated fashion, in concert with the changes in the environment and the long-term vision.

We use a three phase process to make strategic management a way of life in organizations. The process involves:

  • Developing an understanding how, either formally or informally, strategies are shaped in the current organization

  • Introducing a well proven algorithm comprising of tools and frameworks for strategic analyses of the environment, competitiveness of an organization - that will work in tandem with existing internal processes such that these could strengthen all other decision making processes

  • Proving the process by having senior management experience all the strategy design exercises, including the analytical tools and concepts through two / three cycle.

Like our vision development exercise, this process also requires extensive participation of senior management both in line and staff positions.

Building a Globally Competitive Business.

With increasing appreciation of the benefits of free trade, Intellectual Property Protection, and deregulation in general, companies irrespective of the location of their headquarters will be required to work with benchmarks which are globally competitive.
Irrespective of their size, location, and the industry(ies) they belong to, companies need to develop the ability to produce sound strategies with which to compete as a global player. We help organizations go through a five phase process to build this capability. The process includes:

  • Assessing the global opportunities available, so as to identify leads which clients could use in designing entry.

  • Developing a mission to initiate the globalization process.

  • Designing a strategy to enable globalization — this involves unbundling and re-creation of products and services, such that in areas where the client has unique advantages these could be put to best use in developing alliances (M&A opportunities) and / or an overseas base.

  • Redesigning and reassembling the business system so that our client could indeed sustain, if not enhance competitiveness on an ongoing basis.

  • Instilling skills for global business management at all levels of the organization from boards / top management to the floor level, affecting all management processes and external interfaces.

As national borders take on new meanings, the viability of business will be directly dependent on ability to compete against the best, and as industrial boundaries blur best could emerge from multiple spaces. In addition, as the global rules of competition are constantly changing, we work with clients with long-term arrangements until the globalization of both hard and soft factors are internalized, and become self-priming.