Every organization has its own reason to do strategic planning and to seek out a business plan consultant or strategy consulting firm such as The Planning Group. Our first step is to help you define crystal clear objectives for your strategic planning efforts. We never create business plans that are just window dressing to fill a corporate planning requirement. Planning is hard work for the management teams involved, and the objectives must help drive your organization to a new and better place. These objectives often include:

• A plan that will be used as a blueprint to actually help leaders run the organization
• A plan to externally articulate an organization's value proposition, vision, strategy, and prospects to secure financing, or other considerations
• Credibility among owners, shareholders, and boards that the firm has a cohesive and compelling strategy, with a clear vision for the future and an executable plan in place
• A clear sense of priorities, focus and energy among the management team
• A line of sight that all employees can relate to as they attempt to reconcile their duties with the vision and strategy of the firm
• Understanding, and agreement among the management team about where the organization is going and how it will get there

 

Once the objectives are understood, we will help you identify who is essential to the process, and how to get them involved in an appropriate manner. Strategic planning done well is as much about experiential change among the participants as it is about creating plans that will actually improve the organization. It is usually our goal to move the plans, process, and participants ahead, in parallel, over the course of several quarters rather than trying to create a grand strategy in one quarter.

From that point, we will employ individual interviews, surveys, and facilitated group sessions to help you accomplish your goals. The resulting plans are both visionary and practical, and paint a picture of the desired future state of your organization, and a roadmap to get there.

Process Design Consulting

At The Planning Group, we understand that some process is good and some process is evil. We are process design experts. The good processes are being fully leveraged. Humans are following the process and gaining real benefit. The good processes mean that you can do certain things faster or safer. Manual steps and unproductive work are automated or avoided altogether. Your employees can use their brains instead of just completing tasks. Evil processes are not being fully leveraged. Organizations are not following them for real benefit. Evil processes are partially implemented and we spend massive amounts of effort:

• Communicating and being communicated to
• Trying to learn the new process
• Trying to teach the new process
• Trying to avoid the new process
• Talking about the process and how to make it better
• Setting up KPI’s to measure the efficacy of the process
• Hoping the new process will fail or fade away so we can get back to work

 

We have helped clients gain real and measurable benefit from the complete implementation of many strategic management processes. We have deep experience with strategic planning process, project portfolio management and prioritization, strategy development process, integrated business planning process, financial planning and budgeting process, complaints process and pricing process. We follow our own disciplined process to help you develop yours. Whatever the process topic we always start by helping you develop a crystal clear view of the outcomes you are trying to achieve. We will ensure that we develop just enough process to meet your objectives and that there is a true cost/benefit advantage for your organization. Finally, we will assist you with a rock solid implementation and follow up plan.

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